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Why we can never know the position of a proton for sure? More at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

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  • Sixty Symbols people, put subtitles on your videos, please!!! This would help A LOT people who can't perfectly understand english. Thanks!!!

  • @GrandeMestre we'd love to have subtitles and many of our @periodicvideos films have been professionally subtitled with a grant we received... however there is no-one to do Sixty Symbols... you realise all the videos and website, etc are just done by one person who only works a few hours a week on this?

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  • very interesting video thanks

  • Very enjoyable thank you

  • good work here

  • @sixtysymbols why isn't there more people? you are doing a fantastic job, you should at least get another person to help you.

  • Heisenberg's equation is correct but his interpretation was wrong. Classical physicist have always used statistics when making measurements without saying the system is not deterministic. You should correctly state that Heisenberg says atom systems exist within an indeterminate state until measured. Heisenberg says the system is doing everything statistically possible until it is measured. Measurement makes reality? Please. That's attaching probability to foolishness.

  • @jamma246 I agree with you but the two ways of explaining it are linked, they're not completely unrelated. The reason that a photon with a shorter wavelength has a higher momentum is because of the more fundamental principle you just mentioned I think, and so it is what stops this experiment from working.

  • @HotRock2010 ...a sniper has the same problem. either he follows the moving target very closely - but then he cannot see it's path. or he zooms out but doesn't see it as precisely as before.

  • is there a probability distribution for constants?

    is there a constant for how variable variables are?

    what's the difference between uncertainty, probability

    and variability?

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