IDTIMWYTIM: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle might not mean what you think it means: Hank clears things up for us in this edition of IDTIMWYTIM, by distinguishing between the Uncertainty Principle...
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Welcome to another edition of "I don't think it means what you think it means". In everyday life you can look at a car on the street and know all kinds of things about it - It's position, it's speed, it's direction. But when you're talking about quantum objects (subatomic particles), you can't measure much about them without them being like "F*** you scumbags!" and then changing what they're doing completely. It's unbelievably provoking. The uncertainty principle was first proposed in 1927 by a German physicist Werner Heisenberg who was trying to figure out, with math, how to determine the exact location of an electron orbiting the nucleus of an atom. What Heisenberg discovered, again - with math, is that it...
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Welcome to another edition of "I don't think it means what you think it means". In everyday life you can look at a car on the street and know all kinds of things about it - It's position, it's speed, it's direction. But when you're talking about quantum objects (subatomic particles), you can't measure much about them without them being like "F*** you scumbags!" and then changing what they're doing completely. It's unbelievably provoking. The uncertainty principle was first proposed in 1927 by a German physicist Werner Heisenberg who was trying to figure out, with math, how to determine the exact location of an electron orbiting the nucleus of an atom. What Heisenberg discovered, again - with math, is that it...
