Uncertainty principle in practice - Alors on danse
What is uncertainty principle?
Have you ever listened to Stromae singing about uncertainty principle, in a song, in French. That may be not the real Uncertainty principle taught in the Book by Richard Fynman (the physicist). According to Latter genius, uncertainty principle lies at the heart of the quantum mechanics, which says, there is a limit to the precision that some paired physical phenomena can be known, such as position and momentum of a particle, when velocity is measured more accurately the accuracy of the position deteriorates. The credit of explaining this uncertainty principle goes to German physicist Werner Heisenberg, and such pairs of pairs of measurement in a quantum system are called complementary pairs or canonically conjugate variables.
What are quantum systems?
Natural question someone should ask then is what is a quantum system? Basically, these are systems where quantum mechanics govern the behavior, such as individual or few atoms together, yet considering the fact that everything seems to be made of atoms including 36 trillion cells of your body, everyone and everything tangible and intangible are a quantum system if considered in the minute scale. So, at the core of human and every animal and every living and nonliving thing there is uncertainty at the microscopic level. Isn't it amazing to know that these individual uncertainties when added together provide an answer which is called a "human" who lasts 80 years and a "Sun" which lasts billions of years. But there is a problem. Still at the macroscopic level, things may not add up when we consider the possibilities and "certainties" This is where wisdom of modern genius Stromae comes handy, basically he sings about human experience of the uncertainty principle, if you do not agree read the lyrics.
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Who says study says work
Who says work says money
Who says money says spend
Who says credit says debt
Who says debt says bailiff
Yes says you're in deep shit
Who says love says kids
Says "til death do us apart" and says divorce
Who says loved ones says mourning
Because problems never come alone
Who says crisis says world
Says famine says third world
Who says tired says wake up
Still deaf from the day before
So we go out to forget all our problems
When someone says morning, we automatically assume sunrise, and activity. When someone says marriage, we assume happily ever after. When someone says children, we imagine a playground. But these things are not true, and it is totally imagination, only partially correct, as there are plenty of occasions these are not true. In England we rarely see the sun in the morning, and 40% of Hollywood marriages end up in divorce, and there will be children who carries a gun, and might kill you cold heartedly. Does this mean there is no room for optimism? and that we should sleep on thinking that there is no way we can live a happy healthy life? No, my friend. Look what Stromae the physicist has done with uncertainty of his life. He has sung about it and gone from a mere depressed pizza seller to highly recognized musician in the world. You can say that is a long shot, but never been an impossible one, if you know how to use uncertainty principle for your advantage.
Being lucky or being Uncertain?
Basically uncertainty principle will say "Nothing lasts forever" So are good things, so are bad things in our lives. To move forward in a positive direction, like a rising price of a stock in the stock market, we have to keep trying each and every day, as uncertainty will kick start at some point, and when it does and when someone called you have been lucky, you can just smile and say no it is uncertainty.
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