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The Uncertainty Principle as an Ontological Boundary of Determinism Articulations with Chaos Theory and Experimental Confirmation

Juan Carlos Ruíz Castillo

Published Dec 17, 2025• 0 citations
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The Heisenberg uncertainty principle constitutes one of the foundational pillars of quantum mechanics and represents a definitive rupture with the deterministic ideal of classical physics. This work develops a comprehensive analysis of the uncertainty principle from a mathematical, physical, and philosophical perspective, demonstrating that it should not be interpreted as an instrumental or epistemological limitation, but rather as an ontological property inherent to the formalstructure of quantum theory.Within the framework of Hilbert spaces, self-adjoint operators, and non-commutative algebras, it is shown that uncertainty emerges necessarily as a consequence of the structural incompatibility between conjugate observables. The study articulates the uncertainty principle with classical chaos theory and the sciences of complexity, establishing a fundamental distinction between epistemological unpredictability and ontological indeterminacy. While classical chaos preserves well-defined trajectories that are practically inaccessible, quantum mechanics eliminates the very notion of trajectory as a fundamental entity.This rupture manifests itself in the granularity of phase space, the impossibility of defining exact initial conditions, and the consequent reformulation of determinism. Contemporary experimental developments designed to exclude instrumental disturbances are analyzed, reinforcing the ontological interpretation of the uncertainty principle.Finally, the implications for simulation, predictability, and quantumOverall, this work argues that the uncertainty principle does not undermine scientific rationality, but rather redefines itsscope and deepens our understanding of physical reality. Keywords: uncertainty principle; quantum mechanics; mathematical structure; non-commutative operators; chaos theory; complexity; determinism; physical ontology.

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10.5281/zenodo.17969923

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