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When I try to picture the “smeared out” gravitational field of a single “smeared out” quantum particle my head hurts. Try to nail down its position by hitting i
by qubex 8y ago
When I try to picture the “smeared out” gravitational field of a single “smeared out” quantum particle my head hurts. Try to nail down its position by hitting it with a photon and you thereby increase its momentum and thus relative mass and gravitational field... plus all those gravitons have energies of their own and therefore associated graviton-mediated gravitational fields... it’s a heroic mess.
- abdullahkhalids 8y ago> you thereby increase its momentum You don't increase its momentum. You increase the uncertainty in the momentum. So if initially position was 5 +- 3 and momentum was 10 +- 2, then afterwards, you might know that position is 6 +- 1, and momentum is 10 +- 4. The rest of your train of thought doesn't follow after this refutation.