[abstrakraft]

Apologies if you consider this pedantic, but I prefer to phrase it in terms of the wavefunctions in position and momentum, rather than position and momentum, unadorned:

At a quantum-mechanical level, the wavefunction in the position domain is the Fourier transform of the wavefunction in the momentum domain, and vice versa - anything that constrains the position wavefunction to a narrow interval inherently also smears the momentum wavefunction...

Again, apologies if this seems pedantic. I know enough about quantum mechanics to be dangerous, but am no expert, so pedantic wording helps me keep things straight.

[a1369209993]

> Apologies if you consider this pedantic

Honestly, if anything I'd say the pedatry goes the other way: pedantically, the wavefunction in the position domain is what a particle's position is (and respectively for momentum); it's making a distiction between the two (or pretending that there's anything in the position domain other than wave functions) that's insufficiently pedantic.