Heisenberg Definition and 311 Threads

I don't understand why it is so hard to find the exact position and velocity of orbiting electron. And also, why would we want to know it, if it is always moving? I am not trying to disprove it or anything, so don't make fun of me, i am an uneducated peon

Can anyone recommend any texts / online sources for learning QM in the Heisenberg formalism? I don't want some 'basics of' book - nitty gritty maths is what I'm after.

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that both the exact (as near as we can get to thusfar) position AND momentum of a particle cannot be obtained because in learning its exact position we alter its momentum and vice versa. Does this mean we only have rough measurements of particles...

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - h/(4.Pi) versus h/(2.Pi) What's the reason behind the factor 2 in the way some books/papers present Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? h/(4.Pi) versus h/(2.Pi) When in history did this discrepancy arise and who was responsible for that? Ultimately, which...

Recently I had a discussion with friends about impact of H.U.P. on some biological functions. We had disagreement, about uncertainty of position of ion, say in neuron connected to another one by synapse, as a consequence of HUP, point was that if there is some uncertainty in position of ion or...

How does one work in the Heisenberg picture? Can you dequantize and solve the classical Hamilton's equations and somehow requantize this classical solution for the time evolution of the position and momentum operators (and more importantly the eigenvectors)? How would one go about doing that...

Hello this is my first post. I am a 15 year old 10th grade student in a philosophy program and now we are studying the famous Greek philosophers. I have a problem that was asked by a teacher that I would like to answer. And although I have tried I have not come up with an answer on my own...

I have been reading that the quantity called "Weyl curvature" can exist independently of any matter, or energy, in the universe? :confused: This seems to contradict Heisenberg uncertainty which says there can be no 100% vacuum, because uncertainty in position and uncertainty in momentum...

At which scale in length terms does the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle kick in for Stringtheory? In the string vibration for Gravitational interactions, as the scale is condensed, surely this would have a 'bigger' Uncertainty in strings that split off due to their proximity in scale...

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