Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

There’s no way to measure or register any time unit that is shorter than the time it takes a photon to cross an electron. From this, it follows that absolute precision is impossible, and that uncertainty is an inescapable part of existence.

This is the conclusion we arrive at from the way distance and time are defined in my proposed physics.

Fundamental uncertainty

If anything happens faster than it takes a photon to cross an electron, its time duration cannot be measured. This is because no clock of this precision can be made. Events with extremely short durations are therefore noted down as instantaneous. Not because they skip a transformational process, but because the process is so quick that it cannot be registered.

Limits to precision in measurements

A consequence of this is that any measurement that involves distances or time comes with an uncertainty. We cannot know exactly when a process starts or ends. Nor can we know exactly where this happens.

This isn’t due to a lack of technology, or our own interference in the measuring process, but an inescapable consequence of the fact that time and distance are fundamentally related to the dimension of the electron and the speed of light.

This conclusion is similar to the one arrived at in conventional quantum physics. Fiddling around with equations related to Planck’s constant and units, Heisenberg found that the universe is fundamentally uncertain. For example, we cannot be precise about both the momentum and the position of a particle.

Heisenberg’s math

Heisenberg arrived at this conclusion through pure mathematics, with no comprehensive model of what all the various variables and constants relate to in the real world. This led to a great deal of initial confusion. Many ascribed Heisenberg’s discovery to technology or the effect observers have on measurements.

It took some time before the uncertainty principle was properly understood to be a fundamental aspect of the universe.

However, we have yet to hear a more specific explanation from the halls of conventional quantum physics. It will be interesting to see if they too eventually arrive at the conclusion that the uncertainty of the universe is directly tied up to the dimensions of the electron and the time it takes a photon to cross it.