Talk:Complementarity (physics)
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[edit] Duality
The section on Englert-Greenberger duality is due to User:Drezet; thought I'd mention that here, since the edit history does not make clear that this was copied here from Afshar experiment. Thanks Drezet! linas 01:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
- I have hived it off into its own page since complementarity is Bohr's creation and the later Englert-Greenberger duality is a much more focussed application of this. --Michael C. Price talk 14:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "simultaneously"?
Is the word "simultaneously" correct, in view of the Ashaf experiment? In that experiment an attempt is made to measure such properties of a single photon one after the other, which thus would not test a simultaneous measurement claim - but I wonder if that word belongs here. An exact citation of Bohr would be most beneficial. Harald88 10:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- The Heisenberg uncertainty relationship applies to the simulatneous measurement of position and momentum (or more generally of any two conjugate variables). Most physicists interpret complementarity as being enshrined in the HUP, but a more exact quote would be helpful. --Michael C. Price talk 18:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Quote from Bohr's assistant?
- "There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."
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- I recall this quote being from Bohr's assistant rather than from Bohr himself. Not that it really matters I suppose. --Carl A Looper 00:38, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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- The assistant is quoting Bohr.--Michael C. Price talk 08:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Is this principle now under debate?
Having just read this: Physicists Modify Double-Slit Experiment to Confirm Einstein's Belief I'm wondering whether the principle of complementarity should be noted as being under debate? Not being an expert I'm open to correction and enlightenment. --210.175.46.205 04:05, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
