{"id":164348,"date":"2023-05-21T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/our-existence-always-contains-some-uncertainty-this-physics-principle-explains-why"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:24:57","slug":"our-existence-always-contains-some-uncertainty-this-physics-principle-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/our-existence-always-contains-some-uncertainty-this-physics-principle-explains-why","title":{"rendered":"Our Existence Always Contains Some Uncertainty. This Physics Principle Explains Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-existence-always-contains-some-uncertainty-this-physics-principle-explains-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg first introduced his uncertainty principle in a 1925 paper. It\u2019s special because it remains intact no matter how good our experimental methods get; this isn\u2019t a lack of precision in measurement. It doesn\u2019t matter how smart you are, or how sophisticated your equipment, is you can\u2019t think your way past it. It\u2019s a fact of nature.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary physicist and master bongo player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a22749827\/spaghetti-physics-richard-feynman\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Richard Feynman<\/a> put it like this: \u201cThe uncertainty principle \u2018protects\u2019 quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure both the momentum and the position simultaneously with greater accuracy, quantum mechanics would collapse. So he proposed that must be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reality is telling us that we can have our quantum cake, but we can\u2019t eat it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17 German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg first introduced his uncertainty principle in a 1925 paper. It\u2019s special because it remains intact no matter how good our experimental methods get; this isn\u2019t a lack of precision in measurement. It doesn\u2019t matter how smart you are, or how sophisticated your equipment, is you can\u2019t think your way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}