{"id":1068,"date":"2005-09-18T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2005-09-18T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T03:38:10","slug":"1068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/18\/1068\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta X Delta P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The science blogosphere is abuzz about Lisa Randall&#8217;s op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2005%2F09%2F18%2Fopinion%2F18randall.html%3Fex%3D1284696000%26en%3Dda4ba5e712603a63%26ei%3D5090%26partner%3Drssuserland%26emc%3Drss%26_r%3D5%26&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> in the New York Times.  See comments at Hogg&#8217;s Universe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=258\">Not Even Wrong<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/lisas-op-ed.html\">Lubos Motl&#8217;s Reference Frame<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/09\/17\/lisa-randall-on-scientific-communication\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a>.  The article just made me happy: read the following paragraph<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The uncertainty principle&#8221; is another frequently abused term. It is sometimes interpreted as a limitation on observers and their ability to make measurements. But it is not about intrinsic limitations on any one particular measurement; it is about the inability to precisely measure particular pairs of quantities simultaneously. The first interpretation is perhaps more engaging from a philosophical or political perspective. It&#8217;s just not what the science is about.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is nothing that makes my Monday mornings brighter than a correct popular explanation of the uncertainty principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science blogosphere is abuzz about Lisa Randall&#8217;s op-ed article in the New York Times. See comments at Hogg&#8217;s Universe, Not Even Wrong, Lubos Motl&#8217;s Reference Frame, and Cosmic Variance. The article just made me happy: read the following paragraph &#8220;The uncertainty principle&#8221; is another frequently abused term. It is sometimes interpreted as a limitation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2005\/09\/18\/1068\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delta X Delta P&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}