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Can Heisenberg's principle ever be overuled


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No. Momentum and position (and energy and time) are conjugate variables, and their wave functions are Fourier transforms of each other. The uncertainty relationship is inherent in that.

 

 

The best you can do is make one of the two uncertainties involved very large and in a circumstance where that doesn't matter. Then the other variable's uncertainty will be small. This is known as a squeezed state. You can also be oscillating between the two conditions, and do your experiment when the uncertainty of the desired uncertainty is small.

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of course their is always the option we are completely wrong and that everything which has been said before is completely incorrect then the uncertainty priciple can be ignorened, but as stated above as far as we know,

 

uncertainty in momentum * uncertainty in position = planks const / (4 pi)

 

Is the BEST we can ever achieve...

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of course their is always the option we are completely wrong

 

That is unlikely, given the correleation with results. It is fairly likely that it IS wrong, but only in certain situations on with a certain level of accuracy. For example, GR doesn't make Newtonian gravity inapplicable in all situations.

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