The uncertainty principle

The uncertainty principle is an interesting theory that falls under Quantum mechanic's and although it is only a theory, it is one that I live by. For those who do not know what Quantum mechanic's is it is basically Scientist's conducting experiments and wanting to predict there results. For instance;

A car is travelling 500 miles per hour. We can predict that it it will travel 1500 miles in 3 hours.

Anyway this above kinda falls under physic's but you get the idea that scientists were trying to predict the outcome of there experiments. But before Quantum mechanic's was born Scientist's were conducting experiments of all sort's and were getting really fucking weird results and wanted to be able to predict there results to make sure they actually got them correct. But unfortunately there early attempts to create 'rules' to calculate predictions for experiments were pretty crazy and nobody had a simple description as to how you would predict the outcomes. And like Einstein said, 'if you don't know how to explain it simply, you don't know it well enough', and thus, our brainy physicts started to unify these crazy rules and bring them together to create Quantum mechanic's.

So anyway, now that's out of the way, I can explain to you the Uncertainty principle. The equation for the uncertainty principle is this;

Uncertainty Principle

It's a nice little equation isn't it? Kinda cute too actually, lol :)

The uncertainty principle is usually put into several different ways to help people understand and the most popular one is the 'Schrodingers cat'. For you I found a short little video explaining it in a really simple way so you could understand it (but mostly because I can't be bovered to explain it all:)

             The creator of this video says 'no cats were harmed during the making of this video'


So in a nut shell, this is the elusive Uncertainty Principle that many people have trouble understanding, and rightly so I don't know how Heisenberg dreamt this theory up! But it's one of my favourite theory's out there and it's one that I live by and so I felt like I should explain it to you. Although sometimes I wish I didn't live by it because I can never be decisive on any choice I make. I even had trouble deciding whether I should of made this post first or on another theory!