Eli5 Why can’t we “know” the speed and position of an electron simultaneously? Why can we only measure one of these properties at a time?

Question

This always confuses me and I’m not sure how it works. Please explain…

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Answer 1

simple answer is “there is no speed and position of the electron”. there is only a probability of the position or velocity of a certain “quantized value” of the energy type, which is a wave (its true form).

I am leaning more towards the Everett interpretation of the wave function still.

In this interpretation, there is no “particles”. All energy is simply “waves”. when waves interact they produce quantized (or fixed) values with an apparent geometry due to our perception. “Particles are a specific energy value with a specific “spin” producing a “spherical geometry”.