Jon and Angela Conrad (fnordly)'s status on Thursday, 18-Aug-11 07:34:37 UTC
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@tenmihara You just reminded me of something very important! See I was all happy about Einstein's E=Mc^2 jazz, but the Heisenberg came along and insisted that the closer we look at where something is, the less we know about where it is going or where it has been and vice-versa. The Theory of Relativity vs the Theory of Definite Uncertianty... Then there was this guy... What was his name? Anyway he pointed out that actually, we seem to always end up having answers to everything. For example, we used to measure with tennis shoes, but anything more than a yard gets kind of cumbersome after a bit with feet, so we started using string, and that worked for almost a furlong, but then we needed lasers. Now what? Bounce abstract electro-magnetic waves off of satellites and triangulate. We keep going from rigid to taught to visual to abstract electrical and beyond. There is no end, like when you go far enough in outerspace and end up headed back here to New Zealand.
