MANJIT KUMAR

In the days that followed he had time to think about ‘Bohr’s remark that part of infinity seems to lie within the grasp of those who look across the sea’.

In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

For him there simply is no electron with a well-defined position or a well-defined momentum in the absence of an experiment to measure its position or momentum. A measurement of an electron’s position creates an electron-with-a-position, while a measurement of its momentum creates an electron-with-a-momentum.