>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:29 PM
>> To: CF-Community
>> Subject: RE: 4 day solar flare
>>
>> > Well... not to blame for the _cause_ but rather to
>> > blame
>> > for our ineffective
>> > prediction of them.
>>
>> > I'm sorry - but that's as good as I can get on this
>> > one.
>> > ;^)
>>
>> Aha! But then according to Heisenberg, observing (or as
>> you say
>> predicting) a phenomenon changes it! :)

> Well... at the atomic level.

> I'd be pretty pysched if we could predict solar flares
> even if we throw a
> few billion atoms off in the process.  ;^)

> The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: don't look now!

One of my favorite Futurama gags actually... They're at the race-track
and they had a "photo finish" and they're examining the photo of the
horses under an electron microscope and the professor tears up his
ticket and says "you changed the outcome by measuring it!"


s. isaac dealey   954.522.6080
new epoch : isn't it time for a change?

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http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm




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