On Saturday 18 November 2006 08:28 Mark Kent wrote:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Friday 17 November 2006 21:09 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> | "Vietnam has demonstrated to the world its capacity for quantum
>>> | leaps,"
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>> I don't understand that Roy - maybe you can explain.
>> I thought that quantum meant something like "the smallest discrete amount
>> possible".
>> Aren't quantum leaps so small that we can't measure them?
>>
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> You can, but when you measure them, your thingy is likely to take a
> quantum leap somewhere else :-)
Yep - you need to hit-a-photon-with-a-photon to see where the photon is, but
then it's "where the photon was", 'cos you just moved it....
In short, there isn't a leap SMALLER than a quantum leap?
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