{"id":3695,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3695"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:04","slug":"the-uncertainty-principle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-uncertainty-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uncertainty Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Uncertainty Principle<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nUncertainty&#8217;s bound to confuse<br \/>\nAnd nothing is all that is seems<br \/>\nYou cannot know all you must choose<br \/>\nAnd Heisenberg saw it in dreams<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A particle&#8217;s really a wave<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 At least when it&#8217;s pushed to extremes<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Predictions are really quite brave<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And Heisenberg saw it in dreams<br \/>\nPosition and speed are combined<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s one of the physical themes<br \/>\nYou have to keep that in your mind<br \/>\nAnd Heisenberg saw it in dreams<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Uncertainty&#8217;s bound to confuse<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And Heisenberg saw it in dreams<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that we cannot know everything<br \/>\nabout a particle, in particular that the momentum and position are interlinked<br \/>\nand the more accurately you know one the less accurately you know the other.<br \/>\nThis is at the root of a lot of important advances in quantum mechanics etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uncertainty Principle by cricketjeff on March 15, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Uncertainty&#8217;s bound to confuse And nothing is all that is seems You cannot know all you must choose And Heisenberg saw it in dreams \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A particle&#8217;s really a wave \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 At least when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3695","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3695\/revisions\/7812"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}