Lesson No. 12b: The Uncertainty Principle

today's lesson is in two parts: part 1 is here

 

basically, the determination of certain pairs physical quantities cannot be simultaneously done to arbitrarily high precision.

So you can measure precisely the position of a clone but not determine his future speed, or you measure precisely his speed but not his position.

I hear your objection that Heisenberg didn't specifically mention clones in his work but, I bet, if he had lived now he would build his theory around clones rather than elementary particles and waves.

and he did not even get the name of his theory right: he called it indeterminacy, not half as sexy as uncertainty

 

For nicer theories go to the previous lessons in the Great Scientific Theories set

 

and a happy May the 4th to everybody

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