Nothing thrilled me more the bizarre nature of subatomic
particles in my college school days. Everything about Quantum Mechanics or
Physics was and is still very interesting to me especially the laws and
principles such as the THE DOUBLE SPLIT EXPERIMENT, EINSTEIN’S TIME DILATION,
UNCERTAINTITY PRINCIPLE, SPACE-TIME, ETHER, to mention a few.
I was so in love with these theories, ideas and principles
that I spent 40% of my school time in our school library buried in the many and
sometimes scary nature of our subatomic particles far above the world of ‘Gross
Matter’. To be honest, I missed so much missing classes and I also gained a lot.
When I successfully and single-handedly build the first and the only Periscope
in my school, I was given scholarship and made the Vice president of my school
science club: JUNIOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTIST CLUB (JETs club) and also doubled
as the physics and chemistry laboratory prefect.
Here I am going to be talking about the UNCERTAINTITY
PRINCIPLE.
Faced with the many and bizarre problems and behavior of the
moving electron in the nucleus of the atom, scientist and physicists in the 19th
century made so many predictions to determine where the electron could be at a
particular time. But all theories, laws and ideas to pin the electron to a fix
position proved futile until Heisenberg
came with his Uncertainty
Principle which for the sake of simplicity states that: the more precisely the position of some particle
is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa. With
this understanding, scientists’ and engineers were able to develop the first
Nuclear weapon and other breakthroughs in the field of
nuclear physics.
I am still
interested in Quantum physics and who knows I might just be the first African
to develop a Nuclear Weapon since president Buhari recently signed a document
that will see Nigeria and Nigerians going into arms production .LOL
