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To: pat mudge who wrote (9846)	4/27/2000 11:46:00 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

OT--Heisenberg is perhaps best known for his early and groundbreaking work in proving that peanut butter, at room temperature, is neither solid nor liquid (mind you, this was in the old days, before the miracle of hydrogenated vegetable oil). As a minor extension, he established the uncertainty principle--for a subatomic particle, "The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa". aip.org So if you try to define the position of a particle, you can't know its momentum. I think the layperson's extension of this is that an observer can have a kind of causality. Thus, if GG observes (publicly) that AVNX is a great company (call that the momentum), then the share price (call that the position) becomes unpredictable. Hope nobody takes the above too seriously. I don't know peanuts about physics.