Horace Heffner wrote:
Nonsense. It is a fundamental principle.
Not nonsense at all to my thinking, nor fundamental.
Many others better equipped to argue this point believe that it is both
subjective, arbitrary and of little substantive value:
"We have seen that the Heisenberg uncertainty relationship is not
fundamental in physics. We will now see that the amount of information
lost, described as h/2p, is not absolute but quite arbitrary. It depends
on the units chosen."
http://www.newtonphysics.on.ca/HEISENBERG/Chapter3.html
This is from Professor Paul Marmet, Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, President of the Canadian Association of Physicists
who died recently. He was a dissident physicist, but that goes without
saying.
Jones
