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Old 03-04-2006   #11
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Re: a little quantum for you

its like trying to "detect" a basketball by throwing baseballs towards it in the dark. if you do hit it, you'd hear it go "thunk", but by that time the basketball has already moved from where the baseball hit it.

you just changed the basketballs velocity by striking it.

so if you're always going to be one step behind in this manner, how sure can you ever be that an electron is where you think it is?

you can't. thats the uncertainty principle.

and thats pretty much what all of quantum mechanics is, probabilities and statistics. nothing is ever definite, and nothing is ever impossible.


the eye doesnt project anything, its only a reciever. in this example it recieves baseballs and interprets them as vision
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