You're just debating religions. Nothing of what you say is actually real. On Tuesday, 6 May 2025 at 06:30:30 UTC+3 Alan Grayson wrote:
> On Monday, May 5, 2025 at 1:58:18 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 5/5/2025 5:36 AM, John Clark wrote: > > Time is not an operator because it is not an observable in the way that > position, momentum and energy are, instead it's a parameter, the stage > against which things happen. We can say that a particle has a position, a > momentum and an energy but a particle doesn't have a time. Mathematically > that means that in quantum mechanics position, momentum and energy are all > Hermitian operators but time is not. However it remains true that Δt × ΔE > ≥ ℏ/2, and of course Δx × Δp ≥ ℏ/2 > > > It remains true if you correctly interpret Δt as the time for the expected > value of the energy of the variable E to change by a standard deviation. > In other words by using whatever energy E refers to as a clock. That's why > it remains true even though there is no t operator in the sense of > measuring a universal time. > > Brent > > > If we're measuring the Casimir force between plates, how can that be a > clock? TY, AG > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e21ebb41-b670-448c-bb0b-3af4fc0c3134n%40googlegroups.com.