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OT: any electron predictions here?


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if you can predict where an electron is headed you must have some super math skills and a really good microscope:eek:

 

 

You can only know either an electrons position or it's momentum precisely but never both. So predicting where it'll be at any time in the future is impossible.

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You can only know either an electrons position or it's momentum precisely but never both. So predicting where it'll be at any time in the future is impossible.

 

 

Yeap, because when you look at an electron, it is so small, that the radiation (ie: light) that you used to look at it changes it's momentum therefore you cannot tell where it is, or what it's speed is at any one point in time. One one or the other, not both.

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