Quantum physics (and relativity for that matter) are both incredibly abtruse to approach, simply because there are no really good analogies to our everyday experience to use to help explain them. It's really just a matter of looking at experiments, looking at the math, and realizing that even if they don't seem to make sense, observation trumps expectations. No, as for your question, space and time as understood in physics post-Einstein are not two different things, but aspects of a single entity, spacetime. Everything that exists is moving through spacetime at lightspeed. If you aren't moving through space, all that speed is going toward moving you through time. Once you begin moving through space, some of that speed is bled off into moving through space, so you move through time less rapidly (this is what causes time dilation in relativity). Think of it as space is north and time is east, and you are in a car that always goes exactly 60 mph. If you aren't moving in space (not moving northward), you must be going east at 60 mph. But if you begin to move in space (bearing northward), you are still going 60 mph, but you aren't going either north or east at 60 mph. It's basic vector operations and trigonometry more or less. Photons (and other vector field particles) are moving at maximum speed through space, meaning they are not moving through time at all. This is why photons never decay, they don't change with time. Back to uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle can be expressed in several different ways, but the most common is that it is impossible to know beyond a specific degree of precision the position (space) and momentum (space/time) of a given particle. You can't know gain information about either of these properties without other particles interacting with the target particle, but that interaction changes these properties.Yea, I think I have seen people using a ball penetrating a wall or water leak through cup as an analogy, meaning in quantom world, physics work in a different way. But I don't understand how particles are not restricted to time?
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