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Comment author: Manfred 05 July 2012 12:42:26AM 1 point [-]

Any blob (continuous, smooth, rapidly decreasing function) in momentum space corresponds to a blob in position space. That is, you can't get structure in one without structure in the other.

Comment author: prase 05 July 2012 01:05:16PM 4 points [-]
  1. The narrower blob, the wider its Fourier transform. To recognise a perfectly localised blob in the momentum space one would need to measure at every place over the whole Universe.
  2. Not every structure is recognisable as such by human eye.
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