The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
(Δx Δp ≳ ℏ)
• Implies that there really is no such thing as 'a particle is at 𝑥 with momentum 𝑝'
• That is, the more narrow the 𝑥-PDF |Ψ(x)|², the more broad the 𝑝-PDF |Φ(p)|² will become & vice versa (
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I remember seeing multiple sources (don't ask me to recall them) remarking on their surprise that Fourier didn't arrive at some version of an uncertainty principle, given how naturally it arises from the transforms.
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that's because fourier was a hack
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Is there any “anti-Fourier-conjugates”?
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