Re: [Paddlewise] Heissenburg

Hi Larry,

That would be me. I remember being you saying something like you could
predict rain or wind but not both, which reminded me of the Heissenburg
Uncertainty Principle that you can know the speed or direction of a
particle, but not both. 
Anyway, if you do have time to give a short, layperson-accessible
explanation about the weather prediction thing, I'm still interested, and I
suspect others on the list would be too.

Reminds me of the most erudite graffiti I ever saw in a washroom:
"I used to think I understood Heissenburg - but now I'm not so sure."

Cheers,

Philip T.

At 10:29 PM 12/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>someone asked me to explain about wind measurements during storms and he
>made reference to Heissenburg.
>
>i planned to respond by the end of the year. however, a hardware problem
>caused me to lose my email records. so if  you are still interested, please
>contant me and i'll do the writing. foxhill_at_shore.intercom.net
>
>in the mean time, i thought the reference to heissenburg was quite strange
>because i  had just returned to the US after talking with Prof. Werner
>Alpers of Germany -
>who worked with Heissenburg some years ago.
>
>hopefully we will be working together on the wind measurments in storms
>soon.
>
>bye bye bliven
>
>
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