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To: DaveTesla

"God does not play dice."
Albert Einstein

hmmmmm, well there you would have some issues.


http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html

The classical view, put forward by Laplace, was that the future motion of particles was completely determined, if one knew their positions and speeds at one time. This view had to be modified, when Heisenberg put forward his Uncertainty Principle, which said that one could not know both the position, and the speed, accurately...One could calculate probabilities, but one could not make any definite predictions... God still has a few tricks up his sleeve.


217 posted on 08/18/2005 7:14:54 PM PDT by JNL
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To: JNL
It stems from the first law of measurement.
Measurement cannot be made without changing the object
being measured (OUM). Even if it a is infinitesimally small
amount. Consider connecting a volt meter to a circuit.
Even at pico ohm input impedances it loads the
circuit. Changes in vector (phase)and amplitude Therefore
changing the circuit or object under test.
At some level position and speed cannot be measured because
it would interfere with the particle.
253 posted on 08/18/2005 7:36:39 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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