Uncertainty Principle.... Intent Behind It?

In summary: That's why you will usually only find correct treatments of the uncertainty principle in advanced books like...Ballentine's book, or textbooks like Feynman's "The Character of Physical Law". Unfortunately, most texts aimed at a general audience start by giving a superficial treatment of the subject, and then later introduce the uncertainty principle.
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Ahh. So no matter how much you control the setup for an experiment, every property will deviate at least a little between runs. And the closer you fix one property to a ##\sigma = 0## deviation, the more the other will vary, if the product of the deviations is sufficiently small? (for pairs like position and momentum)
 
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lox_and_whiskey said:
Ahh. So no matter how much you control the setup for an experiment, every property will deviate at least a little between runs. And the closer you fix one property to a ##\sigma = 0## deviation, the more the other will vary, if the product of the deviations is sufficiently small? (for pairs like position and momentum)
You can't make ##\sigma = 0## for either position or momentum measurements since their eigenstates are not in the Hilbert space.
 

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