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[-] gbzm@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Whether it's energy-time or position-momentum, the uncertainty principle is just a consequence of two variables being linked via Fourier transform. So position and wave-vector therefore position and momentum, ans time and pulse and therefore time and energy. Sure, it only has consequences when you're looking at time uncertainties and probabilistic durations, which is less common than space distributions. And sure it also happens in classical optics, that's where all of this comes from. And I agree that "quantum fluctuations" is often a weird misleading term to talk about uncertainties. But I'm not sure how you end up with "no link to the uncertainty principle"? It's literally the same relation between intervals in direct or Fourier space.

[-] Wigners_friend@piefed.social 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Okay, explain to me what the standard deviation of time is. I will pre-empt nonsense, just "time", not just time in reference to the duration of a finite process. It must be abstract and universal, like the position-momentum case.

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