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 ==Quantum Mechanics==
-The first formal description of [[Uncertainty]] in [[Quantum Mechanics]] cam from Heisenberg in part as a response to the Schrodinger Equation. It clearly showed that it was not possible to measure coordinated values (like Position and Momentum) at the same moment. This is sometime called the [[Measurement Problem]] of [[Quantum Mechanics]] which is said to be so exact, except at the time an observation is made. In this wiki we assert that any event where an iteration occurs the "collapse of the wave function" also occurs.
+The first formal description of [[Uncertainty]] in [[Quantum Mechanics]] cam from Heisenberg in part as a response to (ψ) the Schrödinger’s equation. It clearly showed that it was not possible to measure coordinated values (like Position and Momentum) at the same moment. This is sometime called the [[Measurement Problem]] of [[Quantum Mechanics]] which is said to be so exact, except at the time an observation is made. In this wiki we assert that any event where an iteration occurs the "collapse of the wave function" also occurs.  What is ψ, with all the possibilities it describes? Is it a physical thing that exists in the world? Or is it a mathematical representation of our incomplete knowledge of the future, something that exists only on our blackboards and in our minds?
-It should be noted that most the of the physicists teaching in the university still believe in [[Determinism]] of the sort described by Laplace.<ref>Tim Palmer, ''The Primacy of Doubt'' (2022) p. 12 ISBN 9781541619715</ref>"An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, ti would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom."
+It should be noted that most the of the physicists teaching in the university still believe in [[Determinism]] of the sort described by Laplace.<ref>Tim Palmer, ''The Primacy of Doubt'' (2022) p. 12 ISBN 9781541619715</ref>"An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom."
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 ==Prediction==
 Most of science is an attempt to create as set of equations that will predict the future. It appears that knowing the future is an obsession with the human species. Whether it will rain, or where to find the next meal were important in the survival of the species and so has always consumed a great deal of the learning that humans pass onto their progeny. But we have know for as long as we have any records that this effort was troublesome.  William Shakespeare has Hamlet state that human knowledge is limited: "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science]."
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 The first formal description of [[Uncertainty]] in [[Quantum Mechanics]] cam from Heisenberg in part as a response to the Schrodinger Equation. It clearly showed that it was not possible to measure coordinated values (like Position and Momentum) at the same moment. This is sometime called the [[Measurement Problem]] of [[Quantum Mechanics]] which is said to be so exact, except at the time an observation is made. In this wiki we assert that any event where an iteration occurs the "collapse of the wave function" also occurs.
-It should be noted that most the of the physicists teaching in the university still believe in [[Determinism]] of the sort described by Laplace.<ref>Tim Palmer, ''The Primacy of Doubt'' (2022) ISBN 9871541619715</ref>"An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that wet nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, ti would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom."
+It should be noted that most the of the physicists teaching in the university still believe in [[Determinism]] of the sort described by Laplace.<ref>Tim Palmer, ''The Primacy of Doubt'' (2022) p. 12 ISBN 9781541619715</ref>"An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, ti would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom."
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 The first formal description of [[Uncertainty]] in [[Quantum Mechanics]] cam from Heisenberg in part as a response to the Schrodinger Equation. It clearly showed that it was not possible to measure coordinated values (like Position and Momentum) at the same moment. This is sometime called the [[Measurement Problem]] of [[Quantum Mechanics]] which is said to be so exact, except at the time an observation is made. In this wiki we assert that any event where an iteration occurs the "collapse of the wave function" also occurs.
-It should be noted that most the of the physicists teaching in the university still believe in Determinism of the sort described by LaPlace.<ref>Tim Palmer, ''The Primacy of Doubt'' 20</ref>
+It should be noted that most the of the physicists teaching in the university still believe in [[Determinism]] of the sort described by Laplace.<ref>Tim Palmer, ''The Primacy of Doubt'' (2022) ISBN 9871541619715</ref>"An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that wet nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, ti would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom."
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 ==Quantum Mechanics==
 The first formal description of [[Uncertainty]] in [[Quantum Mechanics]] cam from Heisenberg in part as a response to the Schrodinger Equation. It clearly showed that it was not possible to measure coordinated values (like Position and Momentum) at the same moment. This is sometime called the [[Measurement Problem]] of [[Quantum Mechanics]] which is said to be so exact, except at the time an observation is made. In this wiki we assert that any event where an iteration occurs the "collapse of the wave function" also occurs.
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	==Quantum Mechanics==		==Quantum Mechanics==
		+	The first formal description of [[Uncertainty]] in [[Quantum Mechanics]] cam from Heisenberg in part as a response to the Schrodinger Equation. It clearly showed that it was not possible to measure coordinated values (like Position and Momentum) at the same moment. This is sometime called the [[Measurement Problem]] of [[Quantum Mechanics]] which is said to be so exact, except at the time an observation is made. In this wiki we assert that any event where an iteration occurs the "collapse of the wave function" also occurs.

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 Whether it is the flight path of an arrow, the resting heart rate of an adult male, or the age of a historical artifact, measurements do not have exact values, but instead always exhibit a range of values, and that range can be quantified as uncertainty. This uncertainty can be expressed as a plot of the probability of obtaining a certain value, and the probabilities are distributed about some central, or mean, value.<ref>Anthony Carpi+1, ''Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence'' https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Uncertainty-Error-and-Confidence/157</ref>
-Based on the early papers of [[Quantum Mechanics]] before Heisenberg formulated his [[Uncertainty]] principle, JBS Haldane his own "suspicion that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."<ref> JBS Haldane, ''Possible Worlds'' (1927) https://jbshaldane.org/books/1927-Possible-Worlds/haldane-1927-possible-worlds.html#Page_260</ref>
+Based on the early papers of [[Quantum Mechanics]] before Heisenberg formulated his [[Uncertainty]] principle, JBS Haldane formulated his own "suspicion that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."<ref> JBS Haldane, ''Possible Worlds'' (1927) https://jbshaldane.org/books/1927-Possible-Worlds/haldane-1927-possible-worlds.html#Page_260</ref>
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	Whether it is the flight path of an arrow, the resting heart rate of an adult male, or the age of a historical artifact, measurements do not have exact values, but instead always exhibit a range of values, and that range can be quantified as uncertainty. This uncertainty can be expressed as a plot of the probability of obtaining a certain value, and the probabilities are distributed about some central, or mean, value.<ref>Anthony Carpi+1, ''Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence'' https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Uncertainty-Error-and-Confidence/157</ref>		Whether it is the flight path of an arrow, the resting heart rate of an adult male, or the age of a historical artifact, measurements do not have exact values, but instead always exhibit a range of values, and that range can be quantified as uncertainty. This uncertainty can be expressed as a plot of the probability of obtaining a certain value, and the probabilities are distributed about some central, or mean, value.<ref>Anthony Carpi+1, ''Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence'' https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Uncertainty-Error-and-Confidence/157</ref>
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		+	Based on the early papers of [[Quantum Mechanics]] before Heisenberg formulated his [[Uncertainty]] principle, JBS Haldane his own "suspicion that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."<ref> JBS Haldane, ''Possible Worlds'' (1927) https://jbshaldane.org/books/1927-Possible-Worlds/haldane-1927-possible-worlds.html#Page_260</ref>

	==Prediction==		==Prediction==

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	Whether it is the flight path of an arrow, the resting heart rate of an adult male, or the age of a historical artifact, measurements do not have exact values, but instead always exhibit a range of values, and that range can be quantified as uncertainty. This uncertainty can be expressed as a plot of the probability of obtaining a certain value, and the probabilities are distributed about some central, or mean, value.<ref>Anthony Carpi+1, ''Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence'' https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Uncertainty-Error-and-Confidence/157</ref>		Whether it is the flight path of an arrow, the resting heart rate of an adult male, or the age of a historical artifact, measurements do not have exact values, but instead always exhibit a range of values, and that range can be quantified as uncertainty. This uncertainty can be expressed as a plot of the probability of obtaining a certain value, and the probabilities are distributed about some central, or mean, value.<ref>Anthony Carpi+1, ''Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence'' https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Uncertainty-Error-and-Confidence/157</ref>
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		+	==Prediction==
		+	Most of science is an attempt to create as set of equations that will predict the future. It appears that knowing the future is an obsession with the human species. Whether it will rain, or where to find the next meal were important in the survival of the species and so has always consumed a great deal of the learning that humans pass onto their progeny. But we have know for as long as we have any records that this effort was troublesome. William Shakespeare has Hamlet state that human knowledge is limited: "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science]."

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