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To: ScatterShot who wrote (269864)	8/18/2010 9:55:19 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 306849

Close. In physics the Heisenberg Uncertaintly Principle (HUP)is the most sophisticated concept in the universe. It was th subject of th emost important debate of the last centruy between Eisntein and the quantum dudes, Bohr, Schroddinger, Dirac, Hesienberg, wheeler, etc. The debate was you can never know both the postiion of a particle and its velocity. The more you know about one the less you know about the other. This debate was followed by the NY Times. Einstein famously said: "God does nto play dice with the unvierse". To which the quantum guys retorted: He not only plays dice with the universe, he does it in the dark"-lol. Everything is either a particle positioned only by observation or measurement, or it is a probabilty only. The particle can be anyhere at all. Einstein admitted he was wrong in the end. Some say evolutin startedd in the quantum wave action which would allow random lining up of self relicating peptides a cinch. My vague relollection of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is that you can know with absolute certainty what a particle's position is or you can know with absolute certainty what a particle's velocity is or you can know with 50% certainty what they both are. And you can never know 100% about both. Stated succinctly, the more accurately you try to measure an object the more you disturb it. Think of a dial caliper as a giant c-clamp. It's pretty philosophical when you think about it. Thanks, I'll look for Chown's book, sounds interesting.