Hi DrChinese,
I appreciate your feedback though I find your example makes the issue even more confusing for me.
I'm working on a clear thought experiment. I'll post it when I'm done. Then at least we'll have a basis of reference. It will include how the momentum and position are affected...
I think we need to be very careful here. We must make sure we don't use anything derived from the formula to justify the formula. For example we can't assume copenhagen type statements derived from H.U.P. are true, then use them to justify H.U.P. That would be circular.
Could the uncertainty...
Ok I agree that the precision is inherently intertwined with the physics of the experiment. But Heisenberg's formula is being assumed as an accurate model of reality. If it's an accurate model then it means that the two variables can be arbitrarily large or small, as long as the product of both...
Thanks heaps for your reply.
But the principle argues that these uncertainties are inherit in nature, not in the precision of the experiment. The way I understood it was that the principle would allow the uncertainty of either position or momentum to become arbitrarily small, but the effect...
That's a good point, I'm really not sure what measurement to use. Maybe you could tell me how it is usually done for momentum? But wouldn't it also work in reverse? Using an extremely high energy photon, the velocity of the electron would get very close to C when the photon collides with the...
Hi,
I have a problem with the uncertainty principle. The way I understand it, Heisenberg used ideas from classical mechanics and the concept of wave/particle duality to show a contradiction in classical mechanics, i.e. that it is impossible to know with exact precision both the momentum and...