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Old 25-April-2004, 09:23 AM
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"According to Heisenberg, one cannot measure a particle's motion without altering its position, and vice versa"

when i think about this scenario it seems to me it might be a result of not being able to test in a fine enough manner.

to me, it's like they are trying to use a brick to detect the properties of an egg....the brick will always smash the egg if you throw it at it.

dr zuo a few years ago showed the structure of cuprous oxide...he had to use xrays and electrons to do it...and was able to make a nice picture that showed the structures in a fairly undisturbed form.

when we are able to use a very fine detection method i think we will see the properties of these micro structures/bodies without disrupting them.

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dshan said....
"The second problem is that temperature has nothing to do with time, so time would not stop at 0 Kelvin even if you could reach it (time passes just as quickly at 300 K, 273 K and 5 K though molecular activity will be much less at 5 K than 300 K. Temperature is after all just a measure of molecular motion, this is unrelated to time.)"

there's an argument over at the bad astronomy site that included the description of time...supposedly time really is relative to motion or activity.


but i don't agree.