Bottom line... just when can we expect Santa? Best of the season, Richard Culpeper ---------- > From: Mattson, Timothy G <timothy.g.mattson_at_intel.com> --snip-- > Your statement of the Heissenburg uncertainty principle is wrong. The > correct statement is a bit complicated, but in its simplest form, it says > that you can't simultaneously determine the position and momentum of a > particle with arbitrary precision. As you more precisely measure one, you > degrade your precision in the measurement of the other. > > Momentum is a vector quantity equal to the mass times the velocity of a > particle. Hence, it includes both the speed and the direction of motion. > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Dec 22 1998 - 13:21:56 PST
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