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Old 22-August-2006, 03:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Cougar View Post
Of course this is true, but most of the treatments I've read on this topic include the school of thought that Heisenberg Uncertainty is not simply a limitation in our ability to measure, as RobA and swansont have indicated. It's a more fundamental limitation....
In QM, the wave function of conjugate variables, like momentum and position, are Fourier transforms of each other. The uncertainty is inherent in that.
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