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Essentially, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that the act of observation collapses a wave potentiality that makes a situation, event or object become physical. When we observe [[EMF]] waves we change the physical environment and how that is expressed in tangible ways. | Essentially, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that the act of observation collapses a wave potentiality that makes a situation, event or object become physical. When we observe [[EMF]] waves we change the physical environment and how that is expressed in tangible ways. | ||
==Observer Effect== | |||
In science, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on a phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A commonplace example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire; this is difficult to do without letting out some of the air, thus changing the pressure. This effect can be observed in many domains of physics. | |||
The observer effect on a physical process can often be reduced to insignificance by using better instruments or observation techniques.Historically, the observer effect has been confused with the uncertainty principle.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) Observer Effect]</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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In quantum mechanics, the Uncertainty Principle, also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known simultaneously. Introduced first in 1927, by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, it states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa.[1]
Essentially, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that the act of observation collapses a wave potentiality that makes a situation, event or object become physical. When we observe EMF waves we change the physical environment and how that is expressed in tangible ways.
Observer Effect
In science, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on a phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A commonplace example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire; this is difficult to do without letting out some of the air, thus changing the pressure. This effect can be observed in many domains of physics.
The observer effect on a physical process can often be reduced to insignificance by using better instruments or observation techniques.Historically, the observer effect has been confused with the uncertainty principle.[2]