Timeline for Can light have an irrational wavelength?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:57 | comment | added | user130529 | At first I would rather say theoretical rather than philosophical, but as we have no certitude on the theory itself, it may very well become philosophical, so I concede you the point. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:50 | comment | added | rob♦ | @claudechuber Those of us in the precision measurements business have separate discussions about the width of a distribution ("uncertainty in $p$") and about the precision with which the central value is known ("uncertainty in $\left<p\right>$"). Whether there's a deterministic value for the parameters of a probability distribution "somewhere down there" is a philosophical discussion too complex for these comments, but I tend to think there isn't. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:40 | comment | added | user130529 | Indeed there is an uncertainty on the wavelength, but not on the mean value of its probability density which is 100% deterministic. The question could be reworded in that direction... FWIW | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:22 | history | answered | rob♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |