Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site prometheus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!prometheus!pmk From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Message-ID: <162@prometheus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:16:18 EDT Article-I.D.: promethe.162 Posted: Fri Aug 9 04:16:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:20:55 EDT References: <3506@decwrl.UUCP> <556@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD Lines: 23 > > 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. - - NOTE: MAIL PATH MAY DIFFER FROM HEADER - - +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Paul M. Koloc, President: (301) 445-1075 | FUSION | | Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD 20740-0222 | this | | pmk@prometheus.UUCP; ..seismo!prometheus!pmk.UUCP | decade | +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+