I understand the math of the equation — mathematically speaking, the more certain you are of electron location, the less certain you are of velocity, and vice versa. But why? Do we know why this is a thing for electrons? Is here any hope of resolving this or does it appear to be an immutable characteristic of particle physics?
I’m tagging it Chemistry, because I’m primarily trying to understand it in terms of chemistry principles rather than physics principles because that’s how I need to apply it.
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The constantly forgetten assumption is the “with our current technology.” A few years back (sauce: Google/Duck/Bing it) a technique was developed to measure one aspect with less disruption of the other.
People just treat HUP as magic because they forget or don’t get told the assumption.
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