The uncertainty principle was misnamed. It should have been termed:
The momentum/position anomaly.
Picture in your mind a car (yes, whatever car you wish) zipping along
a straight road at 100 mph headed east. Since velocity is a vector
quantity (it possesses both speed and direction), then so is momentum,
because the momentum of the car is equal to its mass times its
velocity...
momentum = mass x velocity
Since you know the car's velocity, 100 mph headed east, then all you
need to do is multiply that velocity times the car's mass. Then you
will know the car's momentum.
Now, at various places along the road, imagine that there are cameras
placed that will take a picture of the car at various positions and
then automatically record the time the picture is taken. So now you
are able to determine both the car's momentum and its position.
So in quantum mechanics, the anomaly exists that if the car is, say, a
photon, there is no way, nor can there ever be a way to determine both
the photon's momentum and its position at the same time.
All one would need is a good enough cameral to be able to record a
photon in a certain position. WAIT! BERT HAS ALREADY DONE THIS!
Never mind.
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