Sentences with phrase «uncertainty principle for»

You also can't use the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for your bowel movements.

In the early 1980s, US physicist Carlton Caves proved theoretically that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for such signals requires that at least half an energy quantum of noise must be added to the signal.

Not exact matches

Such a notion as emergence, for example, which is closely allied with the principle of indeterminacy and uncertainty and which was later to develop in physics, actually assumed more credence in physics before it took root in biology and psychology; yet it has more significant implications for the data of the organic and social sciences than for physics.

It was an important development for physics when Werner Heisenberg formulated the principle of uncertainty.

Indeed, if we look at quantum mechanics and relativity together, we see that they are very different in one sense, for relativity ultimately implies complete, perfect describability in all the details of the universe, while quantum mechanics implies through the uncertainty principle that complete, perfect describability can not be achieved.

«Compton would like to say that for God there is no uncertainty principle.

skepticism» and characterized by intellectual uncertainty, weak institutions, and the Reformation principle of «faith alone» («Protestantism and the quest for certainty,» August 26 - September 2, 1998).

In physics, for example, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or principle of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner HUncertainty Principle or principle of indeterminacy has been interpreted in three ways: 1) that the «laws of nature» are deterministic, and that any uncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Huncertainty is due to human ignorance, which in due time will be resolved by science (Einstein), 2) uncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Huncertainty can be always explained by present experimental limitations (Neils Bohr), and 3) indeterminacy is an objective characteristic of reality Werner Heisenberg).

In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that one can not assign, with full precision, values for certain pairs of observable variables, including the position and momentum, of a single particle at the same time even in theory.

Now Stephanie Wehner and Esther Hänggi at the National University of Singapore's Centre for Quantum Technology have taken a new tack, recasting the uncertainty principle in the language of information theory.

Yet Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictated that precise values for certain pairs of variables, such as position and momentum, could never be known simultaneously.

Such virtual particles appear to violate conservation of energy for a brief period of time — a quirk made possible by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

His new result made use of a pillar of quantum theory called the uncertainty principle, according to which the detailed properties of an object — its position or velocity, for example — can never be completely pinned down.

If that synthesis is accomplished, it is likely that the uncertainty principle would make it impossible for singularities to form.

I am particularly enamored of the scene in which he discusses using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as the basis for a criminal defense.

The wittiest scene in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2001 film The Man Who Wasn't There is one in which a fast - talking defense attorney, Freddy Riedenschneider (marvelously played by Tony Shalhoub), invokes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as grounds for a not - guilty verdict in a murder case:

She has created two monthly online columns for the New York Times; the first, The Principles of Uncertainty (2006 - 07), was a narrative journal of her life.

Maira Kalman (co-creator, designer, The Principles of Uncertainty) is the author and illustrator of 18 children's books including Fireboat, Looking at Lincoln, and What Pete Ate, as well as five books for adults.

This installation thus offers both macro and micro perspectives of optical phenomena, which Corse relates to the so - called uncertainty principle, the basis of quantum mechanics that is an area of personal study for the artist.

The easiest way to develop a tax narrative is via income tax increases for the very wealthy — you can easily sell this to the 51 % of voters you need more easily than the technical details about energy security, environmental discourse, science and uncertainty, precautionary principles, climate policy stabalisation assessment, green legacies, global trading schemes, UN COP frameworks ALL of which have to be defended for the policy framework to be politically feasible.

In fact, most uncertainties in the alarmist pseudo-science are internal contradictions and consequences of its shoddy practices: cherry picking data, making conclusions based on statistically insignificant observations, declaring trends based on variations that are within error margins, relying on computer models that contradict principles of the information theory, forging forecasts for unreasonably long time periods, etc..

Increased uncertainty provides a greater probability of occurrence of the catastrophe, strengthening the case for action under the precautionary principle

That is, under the weak precautionary principle, uncertainty does NOT make the case stronger for action, whereby the under the strong precautionary principle, uncertainty arguably strengthens the case for action.

Clean up the IPCC consensus process and clear up all the many uncertainties first before clamoring for mitigating action based on the «precautionary principle».

Concerning the uncertainty of assessments made by IPCC, already in The Environment Conference Rio de Janeiro 1992 there was agreed a principle according to which» lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation».

So it becomes necessary to downplay the high level of «uncertainty» in order to justify the need for «urgent action», cloaking it all as the «precautionary principle».

On the other hand, if the requirement is a validation of the underlying «peak production» principle (i.e. production from large resources maturing and going into decline, and not being sufficiently offset by newer smaller resources to maintain overall growth), and if we can accept some uncertainty around the date and height of the peak, then we have many examples of regions and countries in which exactly this process has occurred for oil and other resources.

If this is true, the strong precautionary principle is a hard sell as the preferred option for decision making under deep uncertainty.

But a point you raised gnawed at me, and I tentatively reached a result that is an argument for your point of view: if you start with our atmospheric pressure at ground level, the difference in kinetic energy Velasco et al. specify for an altitude difference of, say, 10 km would not be measurable with a time uncertainty less than a second even in principle unless the gas - column width is less than something on the order of 100 nitrogen - molecule diameters across.

Download the report here, and check out our 12 principles for more effectively communicating climate change uncertainty here.

Under the precautionary principle agreed in the climate change convention, nations promised not to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking cost - effective action.

«I would like to put the uncertainty principle in its historical place... If you get rid of all the old - fashioned ideas and instead use the ideas that I'm explaining in these lectures — adding arrows [path amplitudes] for all the ways an event can happen — there is no need for an uncertainty principle!»

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

Furthermore, the report discusses the principle sources of uncertainty for the indicators and notes how monitoring and scenario development can improve our understanding of climate change, its impacts and related vulnerabilities.

Starting from two different decision frameworks (precautionary principle versus robust decision making) and assumptions about the nature of the uncertainty (PDF versus possibility distribution) results in opposite conclusions regarding whether uncertainty weakens or strengthens the case for action.

In 1941 the German scientist Werner Heisenberg — the father of the uncertainty principle — came to Copenhagen to visit his mentor, Niels Bohr, likely to talk about his work on developing the atomic bomb for Hitler.

4, In the disciplines we have a very high regard for the Proper use of the «uncertainty principle», which says that, if the science is uncertain, Do Nothing, you might «Burn your Fingers»!

For me, personally, as a general principle it is important to try to quantify uncertainty when discussing scientific conclusions.

The precautionary principle, which calls for extra prudence in areas of scientific uncertainty, also applies.

We have too many people who want to re-define or even by - pass this process completely, citing the precautionary principle as a justification for a sense of urgency to act now despite all the uncertainty that still exists.

Therefore they have decided to support the application of the precautionary principle by stating the uncertainties as less than any objective systematic analysis can support and using subjective judgments as a more reliable basis for quantitative conclusions than they really are.

But I believe in principle it has to be done this way, specifying tolerances for the uncertainty of the input parameters and then working out the spread of the variations.

On further reflection I believe that in principle it doesn't matter how you measure uncertainty (I guess this is what you called bias for individual runs), especially if the aforementioned kind of baseline is unknown.

Turning to the guidelines themselves, they address in general terms the basic principles underlying the EU's negotiating position such as acting with one voice, mitigating uncertainty for citizens and businesses, adhering to the principle of sincere cooperation and ensuring the integrity of the internal market.