{"id":12372,"date":"2012-09-13T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2012-09-13T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T08:00:09","slug":"wrong-heisenberg-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12372","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Heisenberg is Wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another article on the Heisenberg experiment I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12339\">linked to earlier<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=common-interpretation-of-heisenbergs-uncertainty-principle-is-proven-false\">Common Interpretation of Heisenberg&#8217;s Uncertainty Principle Is Proved False<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, I think that the author is not quite getting it<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The uncertainty principle limits what we can know about a quantum system, and that fuzziness is not entirely caused by the act of measurement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No!  The Heisenberg uncertainty is not <em>at all<\/em> caused by the measurement!  That&#8217;s a separate phenomenon that can add to the total uncertainty you have.  The thing is, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle doesn&#8217;t require uncertainty of any one parameter, it limits the accuracy of simultaneous measurements of certain parameters.<\/p>\n<p>The critique of incorrectly teaching the observer effect as the HUP in intro classes is quite correct, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another article on the Heisenberg experiment I linked to earlier Common Interpretation of Heisenberg&#8217;s Uncertainty Principle Is Proved False However, I think that the author is not quite getting it The uncertainty principle limits what we can know about a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}