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victorhugo
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I studied only half a semester of quantum physics in high school (which i only finished 8 months ago and came first in physics luckily) but i remember Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. All over youtube people were saying things like "this is God's way of keeping us from getting into perfection of perfectly knowing everything", as if it were some universal rule
I never bothered to research much on this but I remember coming to a conclusion that I talked to my physics teacher about and he said that it's right: We observe and measure small particles with other particles (the only way to see something is by interacting it with a photon) so basically, the smaller the wavelength of the photons, then the more energy, but the smaller distance it covers in space. Thus, if a lot of small photons bounce of an object and we analyse the interaction, we can get a good idea of where the object was in space by an accuracy of the size of the photon, BUT since it's a high energy photon, it now exchanged a lot of energy with the particle and changed it's momentum.
so the less energy in the photon, the less it will change the observed particles momentum, but the less accurate position in space we can get, and hence the formula.
is this right of at least a simple version of what is going on?
for the observer effect, i hear everywhere that 'consciousness affects reality' and whatever mystic things people tend to come up with...
is this the same thing, that an electron orbit only exists in a range of probabilities around the atom, and the moment it interacts with a particle a position in space must be decided?
thank you in advance :)
I never bothered to research much on this but I remember coming to a conclusion that I talked to my physics teacher about and he said that it's right: We observe and measure small particles with other particles (the only way to see something is by interacting it with a photon) so basically, the smaller the wavelength of the photons, then the more energy, but the smaller distance it covers in space. Thus, if a lot of small photons bounce of an object and we analyse the interaction, we can get a good idea of where the object was in space by an accuracy of the size of the photon, BUT since it's a high energy photon, it now exchanged a lot of energy with the particle and changed it's momentum.
so the less energy in the photon, the less it will change the observed particles momentum, but the less accurate position in space we can get, and hence the formula.
is this right of at least a simple version of what is going on?
for the observer effect, i hear everywhere that 'consciousness affects reality' and whatever mystic things people tend to come up with...
is this the same thing, that an electron orbit only exists in a range of probabilities around the atom, and the moment it interacts with a particle a position in space must be decided?
thank you in advance :)
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