On the Nature of Relativity and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Disclaimer: You choose to read the below post at the risk of your own sanity. ie. its pretty boring for the uninitiated.
I was walking down the road yesterday when i was thinking about the phenomenon of why it always seems that there are more people travelling in the opposite direction of myself than traveling in the same direction, even given that the equal distribution of people within the area. For those who know me better, i probably did mention my little hypothesis that the reason for this was becoz the people coming towards me in the opposite direction were doing so at an increasing rate due to the addition of relative velocities. So alternately there would seem to be relatively fewer people travelling on the same road as me.
Then i thought about the nature of acceleration, which in the theory of relativity is equatable to gravitation. However, i decided to use a simpler view. If something is moving away or towards you at an increasing rate, it means that that thing is accelerating relative to you. For those who are familiar with relativity, you would know the idea of frames, and each object would possess its own individual frame of spacetime. So, based on the above analogy of people walking on the street, it would be easy for me to perceive the people coming towards me, but a little more difficult to perceive people moving away from me. This is because, as i mentioned earlier, the rate of people moving towards me is greater. This is pretty similar to observing anything else in the universe. One sees something better when it comes towards you. (I might be assuming a little here, cos im kinda basing on my five senses).
Here's the tricky part. One would be able to observe these people moving towards and away from you but find it difficult to predict the speed of which they are traveling unless one specifies an instant. Also, it would be difficult to specify their absolute position if they were continuously moving. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states exactly these exactly this phenomenon in a nutshell, that one cannot tell accurately both the momentum and position of a particle. The problem here is because there is no absolute frame of reference, and everything travels relative to each other. However, as i mentioned earlier, it is often easier to see people moving towards yourself.
Hence, what i am postulating is the the Uncertainty Principle does hold for most cases, in which one cannot ascertain both speed and position of a particular particle, but this is due to the fact that this particle is moving with respect to you. However, it is possible, though extremely rare, that one finds a particle moving at exactly the same speed in the same direction as oneself. Take into consideration the the role of the observer as well, it is usually due to the fact that the observer is counted as a stationary frame that one always observes the maintenence of the Principle. However, if it might be possible that identical velocities could be obtained for all frames (to be observed), one would be able to ascertain the postion of the object of interest, hence breaching the Uncertainty Principle. (I don't know if the opposite is possible, ie same position to infer velocity)
Yupz, that's it, just had to get it off my chest. =)
I was walking down the road yesterday when i was thinking about the phenomenon of why it always seems that there are more people travelling in the opposite direction of myself than traveling in the same direction, even given that the equal distribution of people within the area. For those who know me better, i probably did mention my little hypothesis that the reason for this was becoz the people coming towards me in the opposite direction were doing so at an increasing rate due to the addition of relative velocities. So alternately there would seem to be relatively fewer people travelling on the same road as me.
Then i thought about the nature of acceleration, which in the theory of relativity is equatable to gravitation. However, i decided to use a simpler view. If something is moving away or towards you at an increasing rate, it means that that thing is accelerating relative to you. For those who are familiar with relativity, you would know the idea of frames, and each object would possess its own individual frame of spacetime. So, based on the above analogy of people walking on the street, it would be easy for me to perceive the people coming towards me, but a little more difficult to perceive people moving away from me. This is because, as i mentioned earlier, the rate of people moving towards me is greater. This is pretty similar to observing anything else in the universe. One sees something better when it comes towards you. (I might be assuming a little here, cos im kinda basing on my five senses).
Here's the tricky part. One would be able to observe these people moving towards and away from you but find it difficult to predict the speed of which they are traveling unless one specifies an instant. Also, it would be difficult to specify their absolute position if they were continuously moving. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states exactly these exactly this phenomenon in a nutshell, that one cannot tell accurately both the momentum and position of a particle. The problem here is because there is no absolute frame of reference, and everything travels relative to each other. However, as i mentioned earlier, it is often easier to see people moving towards yourself.
Hence, what i am postulating is the the Uncertainty Principle does hold for most cases, in which one cannot ascertain both speed and position of a particular particle, but this is due to the fact that this particle is moving with respect to you. However, it is possible, though extremely rare, that one finds a particle moving at exactly the same speed in the same direction as oneself. Take into consideration the the role of the observer as well, it is usually due to the fact that the observer is counted as a stationary frame that one always observes the maintenence of the Principle. However, if it might be possible that identical velocities could be obtained for all frames (to be observed), one would be able to ascertain the postion of the object of interest, hence breaching the Uncertainty Principle. (I don't know if the opposite is possible, ie same position to infer velocity)
Yupz, that's it, just had to get it off my chest. =)
posted by eugene at
8:16 PM
2 Comments:
dude.. thats exactly wad i was getting at. Since the velocities of all frames are identical, thus one of the states required by the uncertainty principle is a given. Hence, "given" the velocity already, all i'll need to do is to indicate the position of another frame relative to mine. Hence, the uncertainty priciple will not hold under such conditions.
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eugene, at 9:08 AM
Oh yeah.. and i've got another hypothesis that objects are in a state of perpetual motion. Reason: Energy is conserved. Hence, entropy causes only the homogeniety of enegy density in the known universe. Hence again, particles would not be able to remain in a zero quantum state. Hence yet again, velocity will never be zero in any given particle at any given time.
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eugene, at 9:15 AM
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