ELSEWHERE IN GERMANY, A CRAZY DUDE CALLED HEISENBERG WAS THINKING ABOUT MEASURING VERY SMALL THINGS.
The Universe: *sniggers* What, like his penis?
Me: Oh stop that, will you.
Heisenberg: *attempts to make himself look big*
The Universe: *sniggers*
Me: I give up on all of you. Heisenberg: If you want to know where a particle will end up in the future, you need to know where it is and how fast it’s moving.
Particle: *squeaks*
Heisenberg: So to find out where it is, you shine a light with very high frequency on it, because the higher the frequency the more accurate you are, and look where the waves get scattered.
The Universe: Buuuuut….
Heisenberg: Well, when you shine a light on something it gives it more energy and when stuff has more energy it moves faster. We want to avoid this as it will fuck up the experiment.
The Universe: He’s getting to the punchline soon.
Heisenberg: But, because Planck says that light comes in lumps with definite energies that depend on their frequency, this means that if you are going for a very accurate position reading, then even a single quanta is going to give the particle a severe amount of ‘go’.
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