--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > <snip> > > >> > Why would the Finnish call it "the inaccuracy > > > > principle"? > > > > > > Beats me. Perhaps some kind of repression(?). It > > > might have been too unbearable for those scientist > > > who first translated the term that something in > > > science can be obviously for ever uncertain. > > > > Well, the English-speaking scientists seem to have > > the same problem; the formal name of the Heisenberg > > principle is the "indeterminacy principle," not the > > "uncertainty principle." > > > > But "indeterminacy" still isn't equivalent to > > "inaccuracy"! > > When I just learned that the (I believe) original > German is "Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation", I realized > what the Finnish translators might have had in mind, that is, > probably rather unsharpness of an image than inaccuracy > of measurement, because the adjective "epä-tarkka" can > also be used of a picture when it's blurred(?).
Makes sense, except I thought you said Heisenberg had called it "Unbestimmtheit." > OTOH, one of the first translations for "string theory" > was "jousi-teoria". I might be wrong, but it seems to > me that was because "string orchestra" in Finnish is > "jousi-orkesteri". But, "unfortunately", "jousi" (yo-see) means > "bow" or "spring", not "string"... Uh-oh! ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
