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Subject: Re: Quantum mechanics (no AI here, sorry)
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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1992 16:39:22 GMT
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In article <1992Jun2.125347.18625@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
>Waves aren't the whole picture either.  Life would be simpler if it
>were!  

Yes, I know, but *you* try summarizing QM in three paragraphs.  :)

What I was trying to point out was that the linked indeterminacy of quantum
mechanics is not an arbitrary restriction (as suggested by the term 
"uncertainty _principle_") but falls naturally out of the wave nature
of quantum particles.  Describing the U.P. as arbitrary makes QM sound
much stranger than it really is.


