Re: Survival langauge

Robert Lieblich <r_s_lieblich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:43BDC9FB.AE8367E0@xxxxxxxxx:

> Hedberg wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
>> 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.

None that I am aware of. I'm no whizbang in this field, either. But
as far as I do understand, chaos theory describes the behavior of
continuous dynamical systems that are most like those of classical
mechanics, not quantum mechanics.

--
Mike Nitabach
.

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