Re:There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
by andrewflnr on Sunday August 28, 2016 @06:31PM
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What do you mean about the uncertainty principle? The article here still relies on it.
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Re:There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
by dnautics on Sunday August 28, 2016 @09:42PM
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It reduces to the standard Fourier uncertainty: if you have an energy packet (gaussian e.g.) of a certain width and wavelength, the shorter the width, the more uncertain your wavelength will be.
Re:There are no particles, there are only fields (2012)
by tim333 on Sunday August 28, 2016 @07:01PM
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I think he means if you model things as waves the uncertainty comes about naturally. For example if you send a wave through a small hole so you know it's position accurately on two axes then that causes it to diffract out so you don't know it's direction/velocity along those axes.
(sort of illustrated: http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/61475)