To: | "james" <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>, <Ajhsys@aol.com>, |
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Subject: | Re: Sigline |
From: | "Rick Lindsay" <ROLindsay@Emeraldgrc.com> |
Date: | Fri, 17 May 2002 07:55:56 -0500 |
Add to that: Within the bounds of the precision described below, you can either know it's position or it's speed -- but never both. > > Y'know, according to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (I think), this > > actually could happen. The possibility is rather small, well, > > infinitesimal...but it could happen! > > Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is basically that you can't measure the > exact location of an electron in orbit around an atom, 99.99% of the time > it will be where expected but the other .01% it will be anywhere else in the > universe. You can measure the position, but instantly afterward there is no > guarantee that it is still in the orbit that you found it in. > > roughly > > james /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive |
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