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Old December 25, 2012, 03:16 PM
zsayeed zsayeed is offline
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Originally Posted by One World
But Heizenberg was made of quanta, isn't it?
Heisenberg is a scientist who has a principle named after him that you cannot simultaneously ascertain the exact position and velocity of a particle with arbitrary accuracy. That is the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. The coefficient of proportionality for the variance in position and velocity calculated from an experiment is Plank's Constant over 2.


Aah now I see your pun. The guy does not act like a quanta any more because he is lumped - however each individual particle will - which makes my mind boggle and that is where strings come in, I believe, .... but then my mind fails me.

But Heisenberg the person behaves in Newtonian fashion.
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