The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle makes people believe that Electrons can not have an exacting position. This Uncertainty Principle is actually a statement about measurement. Heisenberg states that so far no one has been able to measure the exact position of an electron. When measurement is attempted the electron moves so the act of measuring changes the electron’s position.
Slate Magazine says:
Even physicists show considerable uncertainty about what the uncertainty principle really means. Dozens of different interpretations have been proposed over the years. Some locate the uncertainty in some inherent clumsiness in the act of measurement itself. How do you learn the position of an electron with great accuracy? By bouncing a photon off of it. But since the electron is quite tiny, the photon must have a comparably tiny wavelength and thus a very great energy (since wavelength and energy are inversely related). So, the photon will impart a random "kick" to the electron that will affect its momentum in an unknowable way. Heisenberg himself opted for this kind of interpretation, which is called "epistemic," since it places the burden of uncertainty on the knower. Niels Bohr, by contrast, plumped for an "ontic" interpretation, attributing the uncertainty not to the knower and his measurement apparatus but to reality itself. Familiar concepts like "position" and "momentum" simply do not apply at the quantum level, Bohr argued. The contemporary physicist Roger Penrose has declared himself unhappy with the whole gamut of interpretations of Heisenberg's principle, while admitting he has nothing better to replace them with just now.
http://www.slate.com/?id=2062844
So it seems that The Uncertainty Principle leads to “uncertainty”.
Helen Pawlowski like Einstein thought and saw ideas in her mind. She believed she received revelation from God after studying and pondering. Using Gold Stickers and yarn her hand was moved to the flip idea. She used no “tools” no yard stick or tape measure to find the position of the electrons. Her mind did not interfere with the exact positions she was finding.
It is so refreshing to find exacting order. Wow. Things—everything is put together according to pattern and laws and there is a God and there order.
There is certainty.
Slate Magazine says:
Even physicists show considerable uncertainty about what the uncertainty principle really means. Dozens of different interpretations have been proposed over the years. Some locate the uncertainty in some inherent clumsiness in the act of measurement itself. How do you learn the position of an electron with great accuracy? By bouncing a photon off of it. But since the electron is quite tiny, the photon must have a comparably tiny wavelength and thus a very great energy (since wavelength and energy are inversely related). So, the photon will impart a random "kick" to the electron that will affect its momentum in an unknowable way. Heisenberg himself opted for this kind of interpretation, which is called "epistemic," since it places the burden of uncertainty on the knower. Niels Bohr, by contrast, plumped for an "ontic" interpretation, attributing the uncertainty not to the knower and his measurement apparatus but to reality itself. Familiar concepts like "position" and "momentum" simply do not apply at the quantum level, Bohr argued. The contemporary physicist Roger Penrose has declared himself unhappy with the whole gamut of interpretations of Heisenberg's principle, while admitting he has nothing better to replace them with just now.
http://www.slate.com/?id=2062844
So it seems that The Uncertainty Principle leads to “uncertainty”.
Helen Pawlowski like Einstein thought and saw ideas in her mind. She believed she received revelation from God after studying and pondering. Using Gold Stickers and yarn her hand was moved to the flip idea. She used no “tools” no yard stick or tape measure to find the position of the electrons. Her mind did not interfere with the exact positions she was finding.
It is so refreshing to find exacting order. Wow. Things—everything is put together according to pattern and laws and there is a God and there order.
There is certainty.
It really does make more sense that order would exist even at a quantum level. If the "quantum" was in chaos, what is it that spawns the order of the macro scale? Just the fact that it's "bigger"?
ReplyDeletePerhaps that's a weak argument, but weak or not, I think Ms. Pawlowski appears to be on to something.