``Weighing'' a closed system and the time-energy uncertainty principle
Quantum Physics
2009-01-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
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 , required to measure the total energy with accuracy , is bounded according to . 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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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9906030,
title = {``Weighing'' a closed system and the time-energy uncertainty principle},
author = {Yakir Aharonov and Benni Reznik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9906030},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages