kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin Kissell) (07/14/84)
(ahem) > According to Maxwell ( I think), if you know the location and motion of > every particle in a system at one moment then you know the entire history > and future of that system, if you're sophisticated enough. An awful lot of physics has been done since Maxwell's time that contradicts this. Werner Heisenberg, for example, demonstrated that the precise location and the preceise motion of a particle *cannot* be known at the same time. Kevin D. Kissell Fairchild Research Center Advanced Processor Development uucp: {ihnp4 decvax}!decwrl!\ >flairvax!kissell {ucbvax sdcrdcf}!hplabs!/ "Any closing epigram, regardless of truth or wit, grows galling after a number of repetitions"