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...declares hereby that the theorem here described is completed correct...actually the HS "simple" principle or imprinciple is related with the simple properties of the gaussian function that we all know from school.

In any case... I think that the beatiful metaphor or tale that explains this wonderful principle is the one of the bee and the baseball balls.

The reason why you can not know a lot of things is because you just can not measure...(and maybe the measure is the existence... do you recall me mumbling about that the only thing that exists is the interaction....??? think it again...or look it up in a book)...in any case... you need measure...

And how are you going to measure the movement of a bee if the only thing you have to measure is a baseball bat and some balls?

As you may well know there is no problem in measuring the positon and speed of the JFK aircarrier by throwing baseball balls...you just throw  them knowing the speed ,let them rebound...repeat it at different position and time and you can perfectly triangulate position and also get the velocity with the time dealys from the rebounds..

Unfortunetaly if you throw a basebal ball to a bee.... well besides probably killing the bee (not necesarilly) you just afect his trajectory so much...that actually you can not know the position and the velocity he/she had before..

When you are dealing with very small things..well you have to throw things- uber small things...the more precission you want.. the smaller the ball you must throw at them ...but gee...you can not get smaller and smaller ad infinitum because you have a minimum package (in Sven phrase of the hour)

So..if QM is only knowing about knowing that things go in packages.... you have certainly to know all THE THINGS IT IMPLIES.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Sat May 27th, 2006 at 04:50:17 PM EST
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