Timeline for Can you use Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to generate infinite energy?
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| Aug 11, 2023 at 8:36 | vote | accept | Pazzel | ||
| Aug 11, 2023 at 5:33 | comment | added | Matt Hanson | The fact you think you could accomplish something in $10^{-15}$ s is itself very concerning. The reality of this situation is that there is no physical photon ever even present. This is alluding to a complicated constructed in the path integral formulation of quantum field theory called “virtual photons,” which don’t properly exist at all and are merely a mathematically required contributor to the various energies of a particle system. The reasons are far too technical for a comment. | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 16:59 | answer | added | JEB | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 15:36 | answer | added | Paradoxy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 15:09 | comment | added | Pazzel | @WillO It says they last up to 10⁻¹⁵ seconds; if you separate the photon from the electron in that time, it can't get reabsorbed through a wall, thus giving you extra time to retrieve its energy | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 14:53 | comment | added | hft | "Have I just stumbled upon the green energy of the future? Or am I missing a critical piece of this puzzle?" No and yes, respectively. | |
| Aug 10, 2023 at 14:52 | comment | added | WillO | Did you overlook the bit about "as soon as the photon is created it has to be reabsorbed by the electron"? | |
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| S Aug 10, 2023 at 14:43 | history | asked | Pazzel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |