#Can someone explain Heisenberg (in a way that year 9 student can understand)
vagrant ginkgoBOT
tulip falcon
you mean plancks constant?
desert valve
yes
tulip falcon
yes
It is a fundamental constant that relates to energies of photons
a photon is just a packet of energy and plancks constant represents the photons energy divided by photons frequency
since photons can act as a wave or a particle due to their extremely extremely small or we can just say
zero mass
desert valve
is that the limit of reality?
tulip falcon
is that the limit of reality?
no
you would be refering to planck length or planck temperature or some other maximum measurement number named after planck
desert valve
thanks sir for explaning!
tulip falcon
and its not the limit of reality
desert valve
then does reality has a limit?
tulip falcon
the numbers like planck length are just the lowest possible numbers we can work with scientifically currently
desert valve
oh then they lied
tulip falcon
oh then they lied
what do you mean?
desert valve
I have couple of friends talking about that
tulip falcon
I have couple of friends talking about that
well its not the limit of reality
it is just smallest meaningful scales we can work with scientifically
blissful bay
no not really but for spacial matter we say the planck length is the smallest length possible but things MIGHT be smaller
theres a lot we dont know
blissful bay
it is just smallest meaningful scales we can work with scientifically
im pretty sure the planck length is just the point where meaningful physical rules stop working
small pulsar
all those considerations are good, but partially wrong. i'll quote planck now: ... it is possible to set up units for length, mass, time and temperature, which are independent of special bodies or substances, necessarily retaining their meaning for all times and for all civilizations, including extraterrestrial and non-human ones, which can be called "natural units of measure"
planck units are units that represent a gnoseologic limit for which observation at that particular scales can't make informations that can be measured
that's not an epistemic or ontologic limit, we can never know what will happen at those scales. as an example, any attempt to measure something smaller than the planck lenght would cause the formation of a black hole trapping the information
