Comment by jagged-chisel
3 months ago
irjustin is either redefining words to suit their purpose, or isn’t articulating their point well.
To even “know” position, one must measure it. Because electrons are always in motion, if you want to know their speed perfectly, you won’t know their position precisely. You’ll have a probability of where the electron should be, but no definite position.
That’s all Heisenberg has to say. It doesn’t talk about your observations changing the thing you observed, it doesn’t “cause” anything to happen, it is not dependent on the consciousness of the observer and doesn’t make effects itself.
> irjustin is either redefining words to suit their purpose, or isn’t articulating their point well.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knowability
Man you're frustrating. I'm literally using the definition. Just because you don't know what it means...