Electron position and velocity question?

Question

If there was a way to determine the position and velocity of a electron at the same time, what would be the value in that?

Answer 1

You would usher in a new era of understanding the workings of Universe and win The Nobel in Physics.

Answer 2

I think Werner Heisenberg would not like that. No, he would not like that at all. In  his words "The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known"

Answer 3

The value I suppose would depend on the viewpoint of the person measuring it.

But it would mean that the quantum mechanical effects of the subatomic realm would be different, and hence the laws of physics as we know them would be different, and the anthropic principle would be shafted.

So we probably wouldn't exist to ask the question.

Ultimately, we CAN determine it, but we can't do it EXACTLY, which is the difference, thank goodness.

Without the inherent fuzziness in electron position for example, there'd be no such thing as quantum tunneling, so no Scanning Tunneling Microscopes.

Have a little look here for why that's important

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tun...

Answer 4

The value would be in totally undermining current quantum theory.