And the uncertainty principle tells you this is an agreement to the uncertainty principle that any attempt to localize an electron in space by an amount Dx leads to a spread in momentum in an amount Dpx. That's because it's given by a wave.
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- heisenberg
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- 4 · causes · because
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Corpus evidence — top 10 passages
Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).
- 01 · pubmed0.804
The word 'uncertainty', in the context of quantum mechanics, usually evokes an impression of an essential unknowability of what might actually be going on at the quantum level of activity, as is made explicit in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and in the fact that the theory normally provides only probabilities for the results of quantum measurement. These issues limit our ultimate understanding of the behaviour of things, if we take quantum mechanics to represent an absolute truth. But they do not cause us to put that very 'truth' into question. This article addresses the issue of quantum…
pubmed/PMID-22042902-uncertainty-in-quantum-mechanics-faith-or-fantasy/info.md
- 02 · yt0.804
Maybe the equation says that if you start with an electron wave all spread out, it will sort of localize itself near some point and it will look like a particle. It turns out not to be true. The equations don't care about your feelings. It's the opposite. If you start out with a localized electron wave, it will spread out all over the place. So it was yet another physicist, Max Born, different than Niels Bohr, who pointed out the right way to think about Schrodinger's wave function. He said think about what happens when you measure a property of the electron, like its position, or its velocity…
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- 03 · yt0.799
wave particle duality one of the key features of quantum mechanics is the concept of wave particle duality it suggests that particles such as electrons and photons can exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties this means they can behave as if they were waves or as discrete particles depending on the experimental setup two uncertainty principle proposed by Werner Heisenberg the uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously know both the precise position and momentum of a particle this principle introduces a fundamental limit to the Precision with which we can me…
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- 04 · yt0.794
>> The electron's angular momentum, sort of its orbital spin quantity, could only be integer multiples of a specific value. H2I, right? >> Planck's constant divided by 2 pi. >> A very specific mathematical condition. >> Very specific. And the incredible thing when you applied that rule, the allowed energy levels it predicted perfectly matched the actual colors, the spectral lines that scientists observed when hydrogen gas was excited. >> Wow. So the math, even though it seemed arbitrary, matched reality exactly. >> Exactly. It was a stunning success. It show…
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- 05 · yt0.789
If the electron will wind up here in one universe, there in another, there in another, and so forth. In what sense is there a probability for it to be at one location or another? Because in the multiverse, it will, in the God's eye view, exist at every possible location. And you of course have pushed this problem to a place which I believe you think is a solution. - Yeah. - Can you just give a feel for how to resolve that conundrum? - Yes. So in my view, as you said, and not all colleagues agree with this, to put it mildly, but the ones who understand it, do. (both laughing) There is no such t…
yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt
- 06 · blog0.788
A Circle does all of the above, and more, but, it's not worth arguing over!" So, on to the heart of this article: Explaining Magick in terms of Quantum Physics [{chuckle}, I knew a couple of Physicists who used to explain Quantum Physics in terms of Magick {grin}]. This covers the how and why Magick works. PLEASE NOTE: I do not claim to be infallible, this is not a laying down of the LAW. Rather, this is simply a theory. But then, E = MC(squared)is simply a theory. However there exists lots of data which supports both theories. Since I've already covered some basic Magickal Theory, it looks li…
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- 07 · yt0.786
The so-called canonical quantum commutation relation from which the famous Heisenberg's uncertainty principle can be derived. But this happens two years later. For now, I wanted to show you that Heisenberg's paper already contains many of the blueprints for modern quantum mechanics. And although he didn't know it, this formula is the first draft of his famous uncertainty principle. If you made it this far, congratulations and thank you for joining me. This is a remarkable paper and I hope that with this deep dive any student even at the undergraduate level can understand its significance and r…
yt/oVzzIkkYGY8-this-is-how-heisenberg-created-quantum-mechanics-step-by-ste/transcript.txt
- 08 · yt0.786
And if you measure the real particle, it's not necessarily, you don't necessarily measure it in the groove that it is in. - Right, so when you say empty groove, you mean a location where the particle is not. - Yes. - And yet the wave there has an impact. - Exactly. - Yeah, for sure. For sure. - Exactly. - Yeah. - So, - That's weird. I agree. - Yes, well, that, you see, I think that takes away the whole motivation of the theory. Because you can have, if the grooves, if the empty grooves are allowed to have physical effects, then you can just remove the particle and just have the wave function, …
yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt
- 09 · yt0.785
you really just do have if for electrons for example you have point particles and they have locations but rather than following some deterministic trajectories those point particles move stochastically according to some rules okay and so all you can do is predict a probability of seeing them the rules are complicated I don't think we really told you exactly what the rules were or even I don't know if it the it's known what the rules are supposed to be in the most general cases but um one cru crucial feature of the rules is that they don't depend just on the state of the particle at any one tim…
yt/gINYis8BgSY-mindscape-323-jacob-barandes-on-indivisible-stochastic-quant/transcript.txt
- 10 · yt0.782
- If everything happens, what does probability mean, right? If the electron will wind up here in one universe, there in another, there in another universe and so forth, in what sense is there a probability for it to be at one location or another? Because in the multiverse, it will, in the God's eye view, exist at every possible location. - There is no such thing as probability at a fundamental level. The world is completely deterministic. We were wrong to want probability to exist at a fundamental level. We only want it for making decisions. And if we apply it with conventional decision theory…
yt/Af5LICjFIBc-what-is-quantum-mechanics-really-telling-us-world-science-fe/transcript.txt
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