{"id":13607,"date":"2013-05-15T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2013-05-15T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T08:00:13","slug":"its-all-because-of-the-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13607","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s All Because of the Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsfocus.org\/philip-moriarty-when-the-uncertainty-principle-goes-up-to-11\/\">WHEN THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE GOES UP TO 11\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, the uncertainty principle continues to be explained \u2014 at least in many pop sci accounts [\u2026] \u2014 in terms of the disturbance that a measurement causes to a quantum system.  This rather frustratingly fails to put across the fundamental essence of the uncertainty principle  and can be somewhat misleading for students.<\/p>\n<p>The uncertainty principle is simply an unavoidable and natural consequence of imbuing matter with wavelike characteristics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Somewhat misleading&#8221; is a tad tame, here. It&#8217;s wrong. Even though it&#8217;s how he originally framed it, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is <strong>not<\/strong> the measurement problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE GOES UP TO 11\u2026 Unfortunately, the uncertainty principle continues to be explained \u2014 at least in many pop sci accounts [\u2026] \u2014 in terms of the disturbance that a measurement causes to a quantum system. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13607\">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-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607","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=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}