[PatrickHenry]

This looks like a classic. [I put in some bolding, underlining, and bracketted comments.]

[PatrickHenry]

SciencePing

An elite subset of the Evolution list. See the list's explanation at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Upshot of this is that an electron needs two alibis.

[BikerNYC]

Is it that we can establish that an electron is at two places at the same time, or that there is no way that we can establish that it is not?

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

I knew that.........

[leadhead]

Still doesn't disprove the theory that " The angle of the dangle....."

[will of the people]

This experiment offers some insight to some heretofore unexplained phenomena:

- It seems that democratic voters in some big cities exhibit the tendency to appear at multiple voting booths at the same time. Perhaps a single door (slit) at the polling place could cause these people to act more like particles and travel to only one booth?!

- Rose law firm records both existed and didn't exist at the same time. Maybe we need to view them as particles to limit their ability to behave in wavelike (unexplainable paths to reach their destination) manner.

Just a couple of real world scenarios that might benefit from this observation.

[Vaquero]

Can the Transporter be far behing???

Beam me up Scotty!

[ShadowDancer]

I'm not sure but I think a nuetron can.

[tentmaker]

bookmark

[THEUPMAN]

the first time that electrons have characteristics of both waves and particles at the same time and in virtually the push of a button can be switched back and forth between these states


this statment seems to really tell it all .....

the on - off ... one or zero ... the fundamental key to computing . Talk about a "micro" processer ..

[gridlock]

That electron voted for the $87 Billion, before it voted against it!

[Capitalism2003]

". In addition, the researchers succeeded in proving something long doubted: that a disruption of the reflective symmetry of this molecule leads to a partial loss of coherence through the introduction of two different heavy isotopes, in this case N14 and N15" I've been saying that since my 12th birthday...but did anyone listen? Noooooooo...

[Ichneumon]

[RazzPutin]

For an alternative description of the electron (with some experimental evidence) check this out: http://www.blacklightpower.com/

[IronJack]

It can, according to Heisenberg. But I'm not sure.

And neither was he.

[Gumlegs]

[Physicist]

Indeed, quantum physics has simply come to accept as a given over the years that there does not seem to be an independent reality. Physics has ceased questioning this, because experiments have confirmed it repeatedly and with a growing accuracy.

Codswallop. If an electron is in two places, it doesn't mean that there's no independent reality. It means that the independent reality is that the electron is in both places. "No independent reality" would mean that the electron is over here for me and over there for you, but this doesn't happen, not in quantum theory, and not in experiment.

If there were no such thing as independent reality, there'd be no possibility of a science of physics.

[kanawa]

electrons - "both/and" and "either/or" exist side-by-side.

The Kerry Effect

[Doc Savage]

If evolution is a random series of events proceeding from the simple to the complex, exactly how do you explain the de-evolution of our species as personified by Matt Lauer and Katie Couric?

[R. Scott]

I am beginning to believe that “wave” and “particle” are artificial constructs we have created as a result of living and observing in the macro world for so long. In “reality” (what ever it may be) everything is composed of wave like particles – or particle like waves. Maybe a new word is needed.