On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 08:15:21AM -0500, John Clark wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> There must be a fundamental reason why we can't make predictions > better than those allowed by HUP, and self-locating uncertainty is > that > reason. > > > >?? Most physicist think it's because conjugate operators don't commute. > > > That is true but of no help whatsoever in explaining what's actually going on. > I want to know WHY momentum and position, and energy and time are conjugate > operators,
It has to do with Noether's theorem - the operator of a conserved quantity is the derivative of the symmetry along which the quantity is observed. Vic Stengar has a good explanation in his book "Comprehensible Cosmos". -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/Z7OyRff19F_GD008%40zen.
