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Fair enough. If you find the idea that "I have a universe." could be implicit in "A particle is somewhere." so unpalatable physics may not be for you. Note tha
by kgwgk 4y ago
Fair enough. If you find the idea that "I have a universe." could be implicit in "A particle is somewhere." so unpalatable physics may not be for you.
Note that (most) physicists don't accept infinities as a physical thing. They are mathematically convenient but only make sense as a limiting form.
If you were indeed refering to https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_07.html#Ch7-S1 https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_07.html#Ch7-S1 I agree it could be qualified sloppy. But it comes with a warning! ("not at all rigorous but [...] gives us some idea of a real situation")
"If the uncertainty in momentum is zero, the uncertainty relation, ΔpΔx=ℏ, tells us that the uncertainty in the position must be infinite" doesn't make sense except when zero and infinity are understood as limits, for example.
- graycat 4y agoCongratulations on typing ΔpΔx=ℏ, Whenever I see that in a physics video on YouTube, one more such outrage and it's back to a Marilyn Monroe movie. Same for a book on quantum mechanics. If they have an application of Parseval's theorem, then be clear about it and trot it out. But usually the Δp and Δx are not defined clearly or defined at all. I just can't take such sloppiness seriously.