Solved cryptogram
The uncertainty principle is not about disturbing a thing by measuring it. It is deeper.
Physics Facts, sourced to HyperPhysics, Georgia State University.
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What it means
The usual story, that looking at a particle requires hitting it with light and knocking it off course, gives the right flavor and the wrong reason. A particle simply does not possess a sharp position and a sharp momentum at the same time, in the way a musical note cannot be both instantaneous and of a definite pitch. Build a shorter pulse and it necessarily contains a wider spread of frequencies. It is a property of waves, and matter behaves as one.
The claim comes from HyperPhysics, Georgia State University.
- SourceHyperPhysics, Georgia State University
- CollectionPhysics Facts
- Difficultymedium
- Length72 letters, 18 unique
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