Re: [Paddlewise] Heissenburg

From: Whiterabbit <whiterabbit_at_iw.edwpub.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:28:29 -0600
That would depend on where.  Realizing that due Heissenburg's principle you
can never precisely know where and when.

At 04:14 PM 12/22/98 -0500, Richard Culpeper wrote:
>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.
>> 
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