Saturday, December 17, 2022

The Uncertainty Principle Well Explained


If it has waves, you can be 100% confident that it has uncertainty in one form or another.  If the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics seems at all strange to you, then watch this video.  TLDW: It simply falls out of the math, and is about as unexpected as 1 + 1 = 2.


We see the same effect with light, sound, ocean waves, etc.  Nothing weird going on here.  It is admittedly a little outside of our everyday experience, but then so were pens that didn't inconveniently leak ink in our pockets just a few decades ago.

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