The observe effect and Uncertainty Principle

Today we will focus on the physical interpretation that Werner Heisenberg himself gave to

these relationships, through a mental experiment that tried to reveal the physical origin of

uncertainty in quantum. In addition to describing the experiment, we will talk about what

the uncertainty principle is not and some false conceptions about the matter.

Being a great theoretician he loved mental experiments, like Einstein. So his explanation

took the form of a very famous mental experiment, that of Heisenberg's gamma-ray

microscope. The truth is that it is a partial explanation of why there is a relationship of

uncertainty - the thing is deeper than what Heisenberg himself suspected, and most current

physicists consider the experiment a first approximation to the problem. However, it is

relatively intuitive, so I find it interesting to talk about it, even if it is not enough to

understand the matter on its own.

Some initial critics of the uncertainty relations claimed that Heisenberg's results simply

represented the imprecision inherent in measuring instruments: as technology and

experimental physics advanced, they said, errors would diminish until they become as small

as we can imagine. If at any given moment the imprecision had any value, it would not take

more than wait a few years for the measuring devices to become better and the imprecision

would continue to decrease. Maybe it would never be zero, but it could always be smaller.

Naturally, Heisenberg did not agree, and his thought experiment tried to dismantle that

idea.
Observer effect

Humanity has always believed that the nature of the universe was ordered and, therefore,

predictable and explicable. For Descartes and Newton, reality was predetermined and

humanity could hardly influence the results. But two hundred years after Newton, Albert

Einstein showed that energy and matter are so linked that they are the same. He discovered

the strange behavior of light, sometimes behaving as a wave and sometimes as a particle.

For the model of Descartes and Newton this was impossible, or the light was particle or

was wave. Here came quantum physics.

Until the beginning of the 20th century all the phenomena of nature were explained thanks

to the physical principles enunciated by Isaac Newton and René Descartes. However, these

principles are based on the fact that matter is pure matter and explain the phenomena of the

macro cosmos.

But it is when we go into the minute when it is not everything as it seems. The atom was

defined as a kind of micro universe in which both the nucleus and the electrons are like

balls, the nucleus as if it were the "sun" and the electrons as if they were the "planets".

Nothing further from reality. The physicists of the twentieth century discover that the

analogy would be something like if on a football field the spectators were the electrons and

the nucleus the soccer ball. The immensity of space would be pure vacuum and that

electrons are not separated from their nucleus thanks to an extremely strong atomic energy.
Similitudes

Little is known about exactly similarities in this case where the two wings of the observer

effect are folded with the uncertainty principle of the beloved scientist Heisenberg, even

though it is taken into account that these two treat a specific topic, something that is clear

leads to a conclusion or consequence. In general these two theories touch a central point

where the two could find a point of similitudad, but we must bear in mind that there are

also things that can not be reached for obvious reasons.

In this case, the observer effect, such as the uncertainty principle, explains that when the

element enters a strict observation process or simply studies, it could generate a change in

it, which justifies this, since for this case it means that both they take that the study and the

observation is the key for the success of an experiment. As it is known, these two theories

are applied under the area of quantum physics, meaning that they are strong and consistent

theories and that today they are still important in an area as important as quantum physics is

for technological advancement and the evolution of science in the best way.

Differences

As previously said, little is known about the exact differences and similuted of this type of

theory, since its core is complemented between the two theories in the same way as they are

explained, thus defining differences that can reach be minimal from a point of view little

detail, for this case one of the few important differences found is the fact that the observer

effect is stricter when explaining how the observation of the subject or main object

influences at the time of a study or important observation, with the relationship of

heinserberg, explains that there are physical variables that can not even be found with this

simple process if not, which require something more advanced and specific when dealing

with issues like these.