Salutatio Dennis!
26-Dec-97, Dennis Menard wrote to Richard Meic
Subject: Re: Authority [2/2]
DM> -[ Quoting Richard Meic , to Dennis Menard ]-
DM>> The story was covered on @Discovery on the Discovery Channel.
DM>> And, it's my understanding that the Uncertainty Principle refers
DM>> to the "simultaneous" measurement of (position AND velocity) vs
DM>> the measurement of either - (a la Zeno's 3 Paradoxes).
RM>> So, how does one create an exact copy of something? Answer, one
RM>> cannot,... it is not possible.
DM> It has been thought to be impossible, true.
You remind me of a friend of mine,... he has too much faith in science.
DM> But, you know, every
DM> new day seems to bring new surprises. I can't recall who said:
DM> "Everything is im-possible, until it's been done; then it becomes
DM> common." :)
Science cannot do everything. What happened was not teleportation,
simply a particle being created in one place and destroyed in another.
Dicere...
email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca)
Richard Meic
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