15 Jul
2002
15 Jul
'02
8:58 a.m.
Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote:
Eric Cordian wrote:
Still, Nature abhors overcomplexification, and plain old quantum mechanics works just fine for predicting the results of experiments.
Oh yeah? So predict when this radioactive isotope will decay, if you
At 03:21 PM 7/14/02 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: please.
You mean "this particular *atom* will decay".
And while QM can't help you with a particular atom, it also doesn't say that its impossible that knowledge of internal states of the atom wouldn't help you predict its fragmentation.
Yes it does. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Ring a Bell? -- Peter Fairbrother