Rob Harris Cen-IT <Rob.Harris@bournemouth.gov.uk> writes:
> I see, in the most part. I just don't get the most juicy bit. How was
Usually you hear heuristic explanations of the kind "you cannot see a
proton without bouncing a photon from it, and that changes its
momentum", but the real explanation is based on the math of quantum
mechanics. I think it has to do with that certain operators do not
commute with each other (AB isn't BA). Hopefully somebody more versed
in QM can give the correct explanation.
This is a rather firm limit - somehow I don't think even SIs can edit
the commutability of all operators...
> Planck's constant arrived at and declared the limit of all detection and
> computation, regardless of the system in question? Why is tracking the
> momentum AND the position so difficult?
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