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Hello,
I'd differentiate between two different UPs:
1) The one talking about the standard deviation and which is in essence a statistical UP only appearing when comparing N identically prepared measurements;
2) The historical one talking about experimental errors and thus supposedly applicable to one measurement;
Whilst (1) has been long proven, (2) seems to stay at a more heuristic level and is often regarded as a misinterpretation of (1). Nonetheless (2) is of great historical importance as it was this version of the UP that was discussed in the famous Bohr-Einstein debate. And as far as I know, despite being unproven, I haven't seen (2) being disproven either.
So I was wondering: what's the experimental status of (1) and (2)?
I'd differentiate between two different UPs:
1) The one talking about the standard deviation and which is in essence a statistical UP only appearing when comparing N identically prepared measurements;
2) The historical one talking about experimental errors and thus supposedly applicable to one measurement;
Whilst (1) has been long proven, (2) seems to stay at a more heuristic level and is often regarded as a misinterpretation of (1). Nonetheless (2) is of great historical importance as it was this version of the UP that was discussed in the famous Bohr-Einstein debate. And as far as I know, despite being unproven, I haven't seen (2) being disproven either.
So I was wondering: what's the experimental status of (1) and (2)?