Marsha, I believe it seems to exclude a particles momentum or trajectory simply because of the limits of the measuring devices and the gravitational effects it has on them.
For starters, mainly because particles are not really entities or substances but an intersection of fields of force. As I understand it, particles are layers apon layers of said intersections built up from a backround of these fields of "force" for lack of a better word, manifesting in strong and weak atomic forces. The popular theory at the moment, which the super collider hoped to verify, was that all of this is a manifestation of the field of space, or string theory, that space is composed of fluctuating quantum rings. Objectivly speaking, reality is a dream within a dream within a dream...et infinum so measuring is a bit of a problem, objectivly. Complimentrarity, says that these particles and forces only exist in relation to eachother. to isolate them and calculte their trajectory is misunderstanding them, it creates paradox. like the particle/wave duality, the duality lies in how the phenomena is measured not in the phenomena itself. So to conclude, the problem is in how physicists understand particles and the limits of the methods of measurement. -Ron ----- Original Message ---- From: MarshaV <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:27:27 AM Subject: [MD] principle of complimentarity Greetings, Why is it that if we perform an experiment to determine a quantum particle's position, it excludes knowing only the particle's momentum and not everything else? Marsha _____________ "He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has." (Friedrich von Schiller) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
