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To: GPS Info who wrote (284685)	12/4/2015 8:39:09 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 541893

I have to guess that you are thinking that there is a quantum uncertainty to the exact length of the desk It's simpler than that. Whatever instrument you use has a margin of error. That error is always unknown, though can be estimated. As a side note, this was the surprise and the foundation of Chaos Theory. The discover was that those little estimated errors can cause profound changes in future states. That is the magnitude of the changes in outcome was way out of proportion to the magnitude of error/estimate. And there lies the element of faith. You have no way of knowing what impact your measurement errors will have on the outcome, even in the unlikely event that you actually know all the pertinent variables. in principle there always remains the possibility for the simulated to discover the simulators As luck would have it, Fermi Labs will release the conclusion of their research into this subject tomorrow. Long story short, they have found no evidence to support the holographic earth hypothesis. The caveat is that the research itself had too many provisos and conditionals :-/ Side Note 2 - The String Theory is based on the idea that time is two dimensional (everything else arises out of that hypothesis). I like the idea in principle. A 2D time can explain a lot strange quantum effects, but introduces too many problems in other areas which the proponents have attempted to answer by adding on more and more dimensions. The net result is that at least for now String Theory is too shoddy to be considered science - jmo :-/ ST