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RE: Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true?
September 8, 2012 at 2:27 am
Jason Palmer should be sacked for this level of misrepresentation.
The experiment being reported on dealt only with photons. Heisenberg's notion dealt with the fact that photons were at the time necessary for our 'observation' of interaction with quantum particles, meaning that the reflected photon that gave rise to our observation would also have moved the interfered with particle giving no certainty to the exact position of the interfered with particle since it had since been moved by the photon that we were observing....whew. Our detection means are much more sophisticated; however, a two-part study of light does not violate or have anything to do with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Palmer should be embarrassed. The fact that most of the populus that reads this article won't challenge it is disheartening.
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RE: Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true?
September 8, 2012 at 2:57 am
The Uncertainty principle does not applie to the measurement of BBC's value as disseminator of first resort for major advances in any fields of real study.
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RE: Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true?
September 8, 2012 at 4:36 am
I'm uncertain as to the certainty of the uncertainty principle. I'm equally uncertain as to whether the article's author is certainly over his head.