Bear's Journey

The Uncertainty Trick

The experts also boast about something called the Uncertainty Principle. They claim that we can never know both the position and the momentum of a particle with perfect accuracy. They treat this as a grand mystery at the heart of the universe. They even say it is not only a limit of our measurements, but a limit of reality itself.

The word momentum is a problem in itself. Momentum is a jumbled composite of multiple words added together. It hides several measurements within a single name. Momentum is mass multiplied by velocity. Velocity is itself a composite, since it contains both speed and direction. This means that momentum bundles together three separate things. The experts hide these three measurements within one word and then they become confused by their own invention. Their principle of uncertainty describes their own confusion.

Imagine if a teacher told a child that she cannot ever know her lunch because her lunch is made of a sandwich, an apple, and a drink. The child can see the sandwich, the apple, and the drink. The child can name each one clearly. The only confusion comes from hiding them under the single word lunch and then pretending the details are forever hidden. This is what the Uncertainty Principle does with momentum. It hides details under a name and then pretends that knowledge is impossible.

The truth is simple. We can measure mass. We can measure speed. We can measure direction. Each of these measurements is clear. The fog only appears when experts use one Latin word to hide three truths. They then write long papers about the fog as if it were the universe itself. This is not discovery. This is trickery.