Name: Anonymous 2007-12-30 20:27
first: heisenberg's uncertainty principal.. the way it was always explained to me in school is that you can't ever be certain of an electron's(or whatever particle) position and momentum at the same time, because any interaction with the particle will skew your results.. but doesn't this only apply for current technology? if, say, you had some passive method of measuring these values, like an incredibly accurate method of measuring gravitational pull, such that you could accurately measure the exact position of the particle, and determine momentum by the rate of change of the position, why wouldn't that work? I'm sure there's a very good reason, but the wiki page on the uncertainty principal is hueg, so i'll just ask here..
my second question is somewhat along the same line of reasoning: to the best of my understanding, the universe isn't completely set it its ways, with chaos and entropy changing a system at the subatomic level randomly. the real question is, IS there any randomness to the universe, or are our currently understood laws of physics just inadequate to explain the true nature of the universe? If string theory, or whatever other theory might eventually crop up in the future, turns out to be right, and can precisely explain the behavior of the universe, there are some pretty huge implications for things like predestination free choice and whatnot..
just wondering
my second question is somewhat along the same line of reasoning: to the best of my understanding, the universe isn't completely set it its ways, with chaos and entropy changing a system at the subatomic level randomly. the real question is, IS there any randomness to the universe, or are our currently understood laws of physics just inadequate to explain the true nature of the universe? If string theory, or whatever other theory might eventually crop up in the future, turns out to be right, and can precisely explain the behavior of the universe, there are some pretty huge implications for things like predestination free choice and whatnot..
just wondering