On 9/03/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 8/03/2009 anthonyk wrote:
>>Werner Heisenberg is pulled over for speeding:
>>"Do you know how fast you were going?" the police officer asks, incredulously.
>>"No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know exactly where I am!"
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>Context if required...
>Heisenberg's name will always be associated with his theory of quantum
>mechanics, published in 1925.
basically Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says you can't know an objects position and velocity at the same time (or there's a limit to how precise you can know one if you know the other). anyway yeah its a bit of a nerdy joke
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