The joke comes from:
One of the most shocking facts of quantum mechanics, first obtained by Werner Hiesemberg, is that operators do not always commute. There are many different formulations and interpretations of this fact, for example, the "principle of uncertainty."
One of the most common incarnations of the principle and historically first formulated
What can be interpreted as:
"If you measure the linear momentum (mass * speed) of something with high accuracy, you cannot do the same with its position."
This effect and interpretation were the subject of tests, perhaps the most famous were those that were carried out by Einstein (experiments with gedanken), some were refuted by Niels Bohr.
In order to be able to observe the effect, the mass involved must, of course, be very small, therefore it is “visible” only to subatomic particles, never for something as large as the iPhone.
Similar inequalities hold for other conjugate operators, such as time and energy.
Everything is much more complicated when the general theory of relativity is taken into account (for example, think, for example, in the concept of "time"), and I think this is the idea of the phrase "Our technical director has a PhD thesis in quantum mechanics and can show the mathematics behind."
To clarify: IF the iPhone should exhibit quantum mechanics, then Bump would not be able to pair (position and speed, time and acceleration) phones trying to "pounce" on
Dr. belisarius
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