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Originally Posted by cartman
So if I am understanding this correctly, this goes back to the point that anytime you measure something, you aren't really measuring the exact state? For example, there is voltage running through a wire. You hook an ammeter up to measure that voltage. The introduction of the ammeter changes the state of the current, even minutely, in the wire. So the reading on the ammeter isn't the true state of the wire? Might be oversimplified, but is that not too far off base?
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Except that the principle is entirely limited to quantum mechanices. Further, the statement that the reading doesn't measure the "true state" is a little off. The theory holds that their is no "true state" (or in this case "true location") of a quantum particle.
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