Recent content by Kloo

This makes a lot of sense. I was carelessly assuming I could increase my precision "theoretically" without any limits. Thank you for your explanation.

I am not concerned with the actual realization of the experiment. In theory, I can make the momentum measurement more and more precise, and the lens' wavefunction in space coordinates spreads accordingly. But you don't seem alarmed by the uncertainty principle applying to macroscopic objects. I...

I recently came across the Heisenberg thought experiment involving a photon observed under a microscope. The photon’s position is completely localized through its interaction with the microscope’s lens. If I were to measure the lens's recoil—which is extremely small but measurable in this...

I'm reading a book called Asymptotic Methods and Perturbation Theory, and I came across a derivation that I just couldn't follow. Maybe its simple and I am missing something. Equation 3.3.3b below. y(x) takes the form A(x)*(x-x0)^α and A(x) is expanded in a taylor series.