What’s the underlying principle on why you can’t know the position and momentum of a particle at the same time? Is there an explanation? I don’t have any knowledge of calculus or the math behind anything so I’m asking here, thanks!
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You’re in a room. I give you a stick and throw a ball at one of the walls and it starts rolling across the floor. Now I blindfold you and tell you to find out where the ball is.
Obviously your first instinct to is to swing the stick around and eventually you’ll feel yourself hitting the ball-congrats you’ve found the ball! But now that you’ve hit the ball, you have absolutely no idea where its gone( you did not know how fast it was going in which direction before you hit it) so now you have to find the ball all over again.
This is Heisenburg’s uncertainity principle: you cant find the exact position of a microscopic particle without changing its momentum and vice versa.
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