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To: TobagoJack who wrote (20312)6/26/2002 2:40:01 PM
From: Canuck Dave  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
** OT ** Jay, you want a Quantum Mechanical tidbit?

I had the privilege of studying advanced this n' that, and one of the subjects I quite enjoyed was indeed QM.

Anyway, most people have heard of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the fact that at the subatomic level you can only know the position and momentum of a particle to a finite inaccuracy. The more you know about one, the less you know about the other.

What most people don't know is that these are known as an uncertainty pair, and there is another one. This can be seen by multiplying position and momentum together, which has units of energy-time. In fact, this is the other uncertainty pair, the more you know about when you observed the particle, the less you know it's energy, and vice-versa.

I have to keep reminding myself of that while waiting for "the big move" in gold, LOL.

CD
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