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Old 07-October-2008, 03:54 PM
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I thought a big part of the problem with electrons was that to know where it is you have to see it, and that means an interaction with a photon, which changes it's velocity. So you can't measure without changing what you are trying to measure.
Well, that is a problem, but that's not the basis of Heisenberg uncertainty. As Thorkil said, "It isn't simply a matter of inadequate measuring tools. It is mathematically impossible to acquire both pieces of information on the same particle within the same interval of time."

Nick Herbert put it, "The Heisenberg uncertainty principle follows solely from the waveform-attribute connection and has nothing to do with the 'unavoidable disturbance of the system by measurement.'"

And remember, it was Heisenberg who said, "Atoms are not things."

I'm glad I could clear all that up.
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