Re: Survival langauge

Hedberg wrote:

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> My understanding is that physicists and mathematicians say that a
> system is "chaotic" when small changes in initial conditions --
> changes that are sufficiently small to be unmeasurable -- cause large
> changes in the subsequent state of the system. I believe that it's
> well established that there is a physical limit to measurability and
> that neither momentum nor position can be measured with infinite
> precision.

I'm no whizbang in this field, and I'm not sure what you mean by
"infinite precision," but my layman's understanding of Heisenberg's
Principle (which may or may not have been the most important
scientific discovery of 1927) is that either momentum or position of a
subatomic particle can be measured to any necessary degree of
accuracy, but not both at once. I don't know what relationship, if
any, exists between quantum mechanics and chaos theory.

Next week: entangled particles vs. the speed of light.

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--
Bob Lieblich
Interested amateur (very amateur)
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