Re: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

From: Mike (eleatis_at_yahoo.gr)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: 28 Sep 2004 09:40:15 -0700

mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote in message news:<RE66d.20$x5.796@news.uchicago.edu>...
[snip]

> >> >
> >> >"HUP started as a statement that position and momentum cannot be both
> >> >determined at the same time. As experimental accuracy improved and HUP
> >> >was
> >> >falsified, the proponents of a "mind world", turned to Copenhagen
> >>
> >> I'm curious as to why you think the HUP was falsified.
> >
> >Well, ultimatelly you must get to Planck scale to falsify it.
>
> Eh?

Read :

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/UncertaintyPrinciple.html

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/uncer.html

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/uncertainty_principle.html

"At the instant of time when the position is determined, that is, at
the instant when the photon is scattered by the electron, the electron
undergoes a discontinuous change in momentum. This change is the
greater the smaller the wavelength of the light employed, i.e., the
more exact the determination of the position. At the instant at which
the position of the electron is known, its momentum therefore can be
known only up to magnitudes which correspond to that discontinuous
change; thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less
precisely the momentum is known, and conversely" (Heisenberg, 1927, p.
174-5).

Heisenberg, W. (1927) &#8216;Ueber den anschaulichen Inhalt der
quantentheoretischen Kinematik and Mechanik&#8217; Zeitschrift für
Physik 43 172-198. English translation in (Wheeler and Zurek, 1983),
pp. 62-84.

Now what, Eh?

I now start thinking that maybe you are a crank.

Mike