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Early on, it seems like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle was regarded as a principle of ignorance. That is, it says what's possible to measure or to know, rather than what actually is.

However, since its discovery, the uncertainty principle has predominately been interpreted as a principle of indeterminacy. That is, it's not just that we can't perfectly measure an electron's position, rather it's that the electron doesn't have an exact position.

Is the original epistemological interpretation still valid, or are there other reasons to believe that quantum properties are really indeterminate, i.t. not just unknowable?

DanielSank
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See the answer to your question is that they are indeterminable. For you see, to determine something you need to see it although we know (by its effects) that they are indeed present. So knowing that something is there is certain and determining it is not. It's our primitiveness that we can "see" something by when the electromagnetic waves in the visible region interact with it. Basically if photons interact. And also that quantum particles have range so small that their interactions with photons makes them vulnerable to detection. Now the point of matter is that what Heisenberg's uncertainty principle explains is that we cannot see it but yes, if in future we make for ourselves such devices which can produce sensation of viewing through other "virtual photons" we will definitely be able to figure out what's going on "in" there...!

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