Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of...
by atomack on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:23AM
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It's a good point that uncertainty relations exist for all kinds of physical observables. But whether they're expressed as commutation relations or as in Heisenberg's original formulation, or whatever formulation you choose (wave mechanics, matrix mechanics, dirac representation, qft, or anything else one can think of) it's still asserted, rather than derived from an underlying set of fundamental physical objects and interactions.
Moreover, similar calculations can be done with other measurements that don't conmute. One that is very important is the spin of a particle in the x, y, and z axis.
Another is the polarization of a photon in directions that are at 45°. For example, most of (all?) the experiments of the EPR paradox are done with polarization instead of position-momentum, because polarization is much easier to measure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox