What is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, how does it work, and what does it mean? Is it really a quantum principle or is not just fourier transforms? I'll sort it out for you.
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Time for Saturday morning coffee and a sit down with my favorite German Physicist...
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Uncertainly principle not a quantum effect? That would be interesting. I thought it was the very cornerstone of quantum physics.
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To add: we can also apply Fourier transforms to probability measures, giving "characteristic functions", not only to time-series. It takes more than that to get to QM and ℏ, but it's a helpful first step.
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Very good explained. Super erklärt. Aber wieso wird jetzt Naturwissenschaft als Bildung kommerzialisiert? Aaron Swartz wird sich im Grabe umdrehen.
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Maybe it is worth pointing out that there are three distinctly different uncertainty principles: (i) Bounds to second moments in measurements of pairs of observables performed on iid copies of a state.
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Many quantum properties can be brought back to just a few, very precise statements, such as the Uncertainty Principle being a simply consequence from the wave-particle duality. More educators should stress this, levying QM from its "weirdness".
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