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This is an interesting question. It deserves an answer without mathematical complications!

Uncertainty is not an anthropocentric phenomenon

Laws of Nature

To get some understanding of this one must understand one thing: Whatever happens in nature, whether in the animate or inanimate world (including ourselves), there are rules that dictate how things will happen, we call them the laws of nature, and these are what scientists are trying to discover and understand in as much depth as possible. We only discover approximately what these are, however, by building models through which we are trying to get as close to reality as we can or are “allowed to” by our limited ability of observation and brain capacity.

Experiment

When we do an experiment, we are in a constant ‘dialogue’ with nature, and sometimes we even ‘provoke’ her to see how see will respond so that we can get closer to her secrets! The models of physics which we develop in order to explain the outcomes of our ‘dialogue’ with nature, will inevitably contain numbers (the physical constants) which help us put some order in our conversation with nature. Planck’s constant is one of those physical constants. Without it, nothing we have learnt during our conversation with nature makeswould make sense! The evidence that such physical constant is real, does exist and makes sense, comes from the continued conversation we are having with nature (the outcomes of our experiments), she ‘allows’ us to measure it and shows us almost every corner of the world where she is using it. The uncertainty principle is yet another rule of nature, which she imposes through Planck's constant. The fact that it is not zero ensures that uncertainty is a deep property of nature. Also, the fact that it has such a small value ensures that this uncertainty affects only objects at the quantum scale.

So, uncertainty and probability are necessary ingredients in the workings of the universe. It is not an anthropocentric phenomenon as we are just a part of it. Does anybody know why it has to be this way? Perhaps this is the way nature manages to achieve all the beautiful divergence we observe in it. This is probably the reason why she always has better ways to go about something than we can think off!!

This is an interesting question. It deserves an answer without mathematical complications!

Uncertainty is not an anthropocentric phenomenon

Laws of Nature

To get some understanding of this one must understand one thing: Whatever happens in nature, whether in the animate or inanimate world (including ourselves), there are rules that dictate how things will happen, we call them the laws of nature, and these are what scientists are trying to discover and understand in as much depth as possible. We only discover approximately what these are, however, by building models through which we are trying to get as close to reality as we can or are “allowed to” by our limited ability of observation and brain capacity.

Experiment

When we do an experiment, we are in a constant ‘dialogue’ with nature, and sometimes we even ‘provoke’ her to see how see will respond so that we can get closer to her secrets! The models of physics which we develop in order to explain the outcomes of our ‘dialogue’ with nature, will inevitably contain numbers (the physical constants) which help us put some order in our conversation with nature. Planck’s constant is one of those physical constants. Without it, nothing we have learnt during our conversation with nature makes sense! The evidence that such physical constant is real, does exist and makes sense, comes from the continued conversation we are having with nature, she ‘allows’ us to measure it and shows us almost every corner of the world where she is using it.

So, uncertainty and probability are necessary ingredients in the workings of the universe. It is not an anthropocentric phenomenon as we are just a part of it. Does anybody know why it has to be this way? Perhaps this is the way nature manages to achieve all the beautiful divergence we observe in it. This is probably the reason why she always has better ways to go about something than we can think off!!

This is an interesting question. It deserves an answer without mathematical complications!

Uncertainty is not an anthropocentric phenomenon

Laws of Nature

To get some understanding of this one must understand one thing: Whatever happens in nature, whether in the animate or inanimate world (including ourselves), there are rules that dictate how things will happen, we call them the laws of nature, and these are what scientists are trying to discover and understand in as much depth as possible. We only discover approximately what these are, however, by building models through which we are trying to get as close to reality as we can or are “allowed to” by our limited ability of observation and brain capacity.

Experiment

When we do an experiment, we are in a constant ‘dialogue’ with nature, and sometimes we even ‘provoke’ her to see how see will respond so that we can get closer to her secrets! The models of physics which we develop in order to explain the outcomes of our ‘dialogue’ with nature, will inevitably contain numbers (the physical constants) which help us put some order in our conversation with nature. Planck’s constant is one of those physical constants. Without it, nothing we have learnt during our conversation with nature would make sense! The evidence that such physical constant is real, does exist and makes sense, comes from the continued conversation we are having with nature (the outcomes of our experiments), she ‘allows’ us to measure it and shows us almost every corner of the world where she is using it. The uncertainty principle is yet another rule of nature, which she imposes through Planck's constant. The fact that it is not zero ensures that uncertainty is a deep property of nature. Also, the fact that it has such a small value ensures that this uncertainty affects only objects at the quantum scale.

So, uncertainty and probability are necessary ingredients in the workings of the universe. It is not an anthropocentric phenomenon as we are just a part of it. Does anybody know why it has to be this way? Perhaps this is the way nature manages to achieve all the beautiful divergence we observe in it. This is probably the reason why she always has better ways to go about something than we can think off!!

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JKL
JKL
  • 3.9k
  • 17
  • 19

This is an interesting question. It deserves an answer without mathematical complications!

Uncertainty is not an anthropocentric phenomenon

Laws of Nature

To get some understanding of this one must understand one thing: Whatever happens in nature, whether in the animate or inanimate world (including ourselves), there are rules that dictate how things will happen, we call them the laws of nature, and these are what scientists are trying to discover and understand in as much depth as possible. We only discover approximately what these are, however, by building models through which we are trying to get as close to reality as we can or are “allowed to” by our limited ability of observation and brain capacity.

Experiment

When we do an experiment, we are in a constant ‘dialogue’ with nature, and sometimes we even ‘provoke’ her to see how see will respond so that we can get closer to her secrets! The models of physics which we develop in order to explain the outcomes of our ‘dialogue’ with nature, will inevitably contain numbers (the physical constants) which help us put some order in our conversation with nature. Planck’s constant is one of those physical constants. Without it, nothing we have learnt during our conversation with nature makes sense! The evidence that such physical constant is real, does exist and makes sense, comes from the continued conversation we are having with nature, she ‘allows’ us to measure it and shows us almost every corner of the world where she is using it.

So, uncertainty and probability are necessary ingredients in the workings of the universe. It is not an anthropocentric phenomenon as we are just a part of it. Does anybody know why it has to be this way? Perhaps this is the way nature manages to achieve all the beautiful divergence we observe in it. This is probably the reason why she always has better ways to go about something than we can think off!!