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The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
We'e not sure about this one… Being a principle, there are a number of different ways in which Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle can come into play. The best known example is that the more you try to hone in on a particle’s position x, the less you are able to determine its momentum p. And if you instead devote your efforts towards determining its momentum, you will find your ability to determine its position beginning to slip away. Essentially, you can never know either of these aspects of the particle’s behavior exactly and the more precisely you know one, the less precisely you can know the other. Also: The Wave Function. Since this is Fantastic Physics Formulas, we’ll first tell you what the formula is and then we’ll spend the rest of the episode trying to explain what the heck it means. So, firstly the formula says that the second derivative of u with respect to time is equal to c squared times the Laplacian of the wave at u. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://astrogear.spreadshirt.com/ for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Astrosphere New Media. http://www.astrosphere.org/ Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
Due time to double down on delicious dates during a delectable Episode 24 of Terrace House Opening New D-doors. Long overdue (sorry!) topics include: the periodic table of elements, hostile restaurants, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and unnerving P-I-Z-Z-A. Email underoneroof@terracehouse.party with questions or comment-pliments and follow @terracehouseparty on Insta for subs-not-dubs moments. "Won't Stop"/"House Party" bookend from Meek Mill's Dreamchasers mixtape.
Tommy and Adam continue last week's discussion on machine consciousness by examining a bizarre eight-month experiment with Google's recommendation algorithm and the application of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
Tommy and Adam continue last week's discussion on machine consciousness by examining a bizarre eight-month experiment with Google's recommendation algorithm and the application of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
This week Tommy and Adam discuss customer service systems—both human and robotic—and how knowing the rules of these systems leads to predictable results. And this, in a strange way, leads to questions of consciousness in a system. Next week the discussion continues with an unusual application of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and an unconventional, eight month-long conversation with the machine we know as Google.
AstronomyCast 252: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay
Heisenberg's Uncertainty PrincipleWhat can a retired basketball player and a cannon full of paintballs teach us about quantum uncertainty? A lot, actually. Have a listen in on why we can't tell where a proton is at the same time when we know its momentum: the quintessential uncertainty principle. For a link to the blog post I mouth off about, see the exposé on Ramtha and What the Bleep Were They Thinking?New and permenant theme music: Baxiden by Liquid Tension Experiment