Akshay’s Uncertainty Principle: Observing Some Metrics Changes Them

You’ve probably heard of the famous  Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle  in Quantum physics. It states

“The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.”
--Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927

This principle is related to the observer effect. In physics, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on the phenomenon being observed.

Ok, now to get to the point. Read more…

- Akshay Aggarwal

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  May 04, 2009
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