AR#2
30th March 2005 - 02:59 PM
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Let's say you have a collision between two particles. Some people will say that, due to the P.E.P., you will not be able to predict exactly how those particles will deflect. I say bullcrap on that. The P.E.P. only deals with the fact that, because on the quantum level we have to use particles to 'see' other particles, whenever we try measure something we inherently change it. I am confident if we could make a 'neutrino microscope' (or using a similar small particle) we would be able to see much more detail that currently thought possible.
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Let's say you have a collision between two particles. Some people will say that, due to the P.E.P., you will not be able to predict exactly how those particles will deflect. I say bullcrap on that. The P.E.P. only deals with the fact that, because on the quantum level we have to use particles to 'see' other particles, whenever we try measure something we inherently change it. I am confident if we could make a 'neutrino microscope' (or using a similar small particle) we would be able to see much more detail that currently thought possible.
You are either decrepid or 5 years old, which?
18, actually. Anyhow, I don't know (nor do I care) about the whole alignment bit. Basically, these researchers are trying to explain high temp. superconductivity. All I care about is explaining that, which I will now do. In any superconductor, Tc is directly proportional to the distance between superconducting atoms (usually Copper). Different types of superconductors simply go about this in different ways. The only reason you need the matrix of Yttrium, Oxygen, etc. is to separate the copper atoms from each other. There's no magic here. Just to prove my point, isolate a single copper atom and then fire a neutron at it. What will happen? The neutron will deflect, which is the de-facto-standard of a superconductor. (This has already been done by Harwell Labs in london.) Now get yourself a bunch of these isolated copper atoms, and what do you have? That's right, a josephson junction superconductor. No matrix, no magic. Holy balls, maybe I do know what I'm talking about.
Alex
12th October 2005 - 06:22 AM
Can you PLEASE stop calling 'The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle' the 'Pauli Exclusion Principle.' They are completely different things. PEP says that no two Fermions (half-integral spin particles) can occupy the same quantum state, while the Uncertainty Principle states that the Position and Momentum of an object cannot be known to infinite accuracy - the more accurately Position can be known, the less so Momentum. According to most of the top physicists in the world (but significantly, not Einstein) this is a facet of nature, not of experimental limits.
Either way, it has nothing to do with our actual experimental abilities (we are nowhere near the heisenberg limit in most experiments) - it is a theoretical limit on what is actually possible!