{"id":2607,"date":"2020-02-03T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:17:14","slug":"newton-v-schrodinger-and-heisenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/2020\/02\/newton-v-schrodinger-and-heisenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Newton v Schrodinger (and Heisenberg)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This post can also be called<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Non-commutativity and Uncertainty Principle<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It is, like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/2020\/01\/pythagoras-theorem-and-time-dilation\/\">Pythagoras Theorem and Time Dilation<\/a><\/em>, a prequel to Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To find an explanation for the <em>double slit experiment <\/em>that simply baffled physicists, something <em>very<\/em> different had to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It turned out that <em>rethinking<\/em> momentum not as a vector of numbers but rather as a <strong>derivative operator in complex domain<\/strong>, however arbitrary, seemed to work like a charm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This brought <em>non-commutativity<\/em> into physics. See top of the post to see how.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Additionally:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The involvement of i (square root of -1) is crucial.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The basic object now to study is a <em>wave function<\/em> in a complex vector space (that is <em>conceptual<\/em>, called Hilbert space), and not a <em>particle<\/em> (in physical space, like how Newton viewed our physical Universe).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>An <em>inevitable consequence<\/em> of this mathematical formalism \u2013 and immediate too as you can see when you scroll right on the top of the post \u2013 was worked out by Heisenberg:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Start with Schrodinger reframing of momentum. Apply a triangle inequality.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Easily the most <em>mis-interpreted<\/em> (and most <em>over-hyped<\/em>) result in physics, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-Anniversary\/dp\/1107002176\">Mike and Ike<\/a><\/strong> say it well:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>One should be wary of a common misconception about the uncertainty principle, that measuring some observable to some accuracy causes the value of another observable to be disturbed by some amount such that the inequality holds. While it is true that measurements in quantum mechanics cause disturbance to the system being measured, this is most emphatically <em>not<\/em> the content of the uncertainty principle.<\/p>\r\n<p>The correct interpretation is that if we prepare a large number of quantum systems in identical states, and then perform measurements on some of the systems of one observable, and of another observable in other systems, then the standard deviation of the first set of measurements multiplied by the standard deviation of the second set of measurements will satisfy the inequality.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the most-hyped and mis-interpreted result in quantum physics, Heisenberg&#8217;s Uncertainty Principle is an inevitable consequence of non-commutativity introduced by Schrodinger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[427,428,425,842,424,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myamplelife.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}