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arxiv: quant-ph/9906030 · v1 · submitted 1999-06-09 · 🪐 quant-ph · gr-qc

``Weighing'' a closed system and the time-energy uncertainty principle

classification 🪐 quant-ph gr-qc
keywords systemclosedprincipleuncertaintydeltatime-energytotalweighing
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A gedanken-experiment is proposed for `weighing'' the total mass of a closed system from within the system. We prove that for an internal observer the time $\tau$, required to measure the total energy with accuracy $\Delta E$, is bounded according to $\tau \Delta E >\hbar $. This time-energy uncertainty principle for a closed system follows from the measurement back-reaction on the system. We generally examine what other conserved observables are in principle measurable within a closed system and what are the corresponding uncertainty relations.

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