Heisenberg's thought experiment to determine the location of an electron is illustrated here. Why don't we observe the effects of the uncertainty principle in our macroscopic world?
a. The uncertainty principle is turned off in the macroscopic world.
b. We never want to know both an object's momentum and its position at the same time.
c. Because of the smallness of Planck's constant.
d. Because the deBroglie wavelengths of macroscopic objects are too large.
e. Because the relativistic principles of Einstein apply instead.
c
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