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The Uncertainty Principle: an electron is not a ball, it is a string (Patreon)

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2025-09-23 18:45:55
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Dom

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Naked Universe of Ana

I CHEATED THIS SHIT! I wanted to talk about wave functions tonight but I have to explain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle first... In classical physics a particle is a point. You can say exactly where it is and how fast it moves. Quantum mechanics destroys this idea. Imagine a guitar string: If the string sounds a single, pure note, it has a precise frequency (meaning a precise momentum). But the sound fills the entire room, and the position is spread out. If the sound is a very short "click," you know exactly where it originated (localization), but this click contains a bunch of different frequencies, and the momentum is blurred. A wave cannot have at the same time: a perfectly precise location and a perfectly precise frequency An electron behaves the same way. If you want its position to be perfectly sharp, its momentum becomes messy. If you want its momentum to be perfectly sharp, its position becomes spread out. Heisenberg turned this into a law. The sharper one is, the fuzzier the other becomes. Not because of bad instruments, but because particles are waves. (h here is kinda step in Quantum world. Every object emits Energy by portion, discreetly. I will tell about it later)

Graham

Oh, those thighs..

Thatbenjamincave

The guitar string analogy’s really helpful. Thank you! 😍

Pendolino70
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I got Bohred in chemistry and was told it’s enough for every matter. Taking a closer look what the matter really is open up so many more interesting insights.

Mickael Walters

You're forming an ionic bond with all those electrons in the air..