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arivero
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Ok, I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_genealogy_of_theoretical_physicists#Arnold_Sommerfeld that Heisenberg had studied under Arnold Sommerfeld, but I have just now learned that Sommerfeld proposed a sort of uncertainty principle in the first Solvay meeting.
That was 1911.
It seems that he proposed that the time needed to transfer a quantity of energy was inversely proportional to this quantity, and perhaps that the space needed to transfer some momentum was inversely proportional to this momentum. IE:
[tex]
\Delta t = { h \over \Delta E}
[/tex]
and perhaps
[tex]
\Delta x = { h \over \Delta p}
[/tex]
I wonder if there was some extension of this idea before coming to Heisenberg himself (and his principle). After all, from 1911 to 1927 there is some time lag. Also, I wonder how compatible is this idea with the later developed Quantum Mechanics.
Is there some book naming explicitly this formulation?
That was 1911.
It seems that he proposed that the time needed to transfer a quantity of energy was inversely proportional to this quantity, and perhaps that the space needed to transfer some momentum was inversely proportional to this momentum. IE:
[tex]
\Delta t = { h \over \Delta E}
[/tex]
and perhaps
[tex]
\Delta x = { h \over \Delta p}
[/tex]
I wonder if there was some extension of this idea before coming to Heisenberg himself (and his principle). After all, from 1911 to 1927 there is some time lag. Also, I wonder how compatible is this idea with the later developed Quantum Mechanics.
Is there some book naming explicitly this formulation?