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The article seems to distill the concept of quantum uncertainty into this statement: there is an inherent uncertainty about what happens to a quantum
by mg 4y ago
The article seems to distill the concept of quantum uncertainty into this statement:
there is an inherent uncertainty
about what happens to a quantum
system when we attempt to observe it
Is this a good way to put it?
I'm not sure if with "quantum uncertainty", they refer to the same thing as Wikipedias "uncertainty principle" page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
The Wikipedia page sounds somewhat different (and harder to grasp) to me. It talks about predicting future states of pairs of physical quantities after knowing the initial conditions.
- Filligree 4y agoNot at all. There's no uncertainty, even. Unless we're talking subjective uncertainty, in which case yeah, not literally everyone has landed on many-worlds yet.