Re: [Paddlewise] Heissenburg

From: Richard Culpeper <culpeper_at_geocities.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:14:36 -0500
Bottom line... just when can we expect Santa?

Best of the season,
Richard Culpeper

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> 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.
> 
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