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From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:16:18 EDT
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> > Yet, we are able to
> > determine the simultaneous position and momentum of conglomerations of
> > these elementary particles.
> 
To measure the conglomerate (a desk) to the absolute accuracy (atomic scale)
is just as "uncertain".  To measure the conglumerate to the same "percentage
of measure" as an atomic particle, of course is not so uncertain.  
This is simply because 1% of the diameter of a conglomerate (the earth|desk)
is a much larger scale than 1% of the diameter of a neutron.

What the uncertainty principle seems to say that the information content 
of a UNIT "space-time cube" is limited.  In other words space is "grainy" 
and not continuous wrt a "point" test particle.   It is quasi-continuous 
in terms of "delta function" test particles.  The measuring function also 
seems to be "grainy".   Sort compounds the problem, like trying to read a 
fuzzy type written word with blurry vision.  

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