Uncertainty Principle goes to war; Microscopic media coverage makes a macroscopic blur.(OPED)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: April 2, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Tony Blankley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Warner Heisenberg would understand the current media confusion surrounding the progress of the war. About 80 years ago, the German physicist postulated a theory known as the Uncertainty Principle that in sub-atomic physics the observer becomes part of the observed system. Through the act of measurement the physicist becomes himself part of observed reality. Regarding subatomic particles, he argued, the act of measuring one magnitude of a particle mass, velocity or position causes the other magnitudes to blur. So that, in his ...

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