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Re: Sigline

To: "james" <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>, <Ajhsys@aol.com>,
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

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