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Old 01-27-2010, 06:09 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...no-o-o-o-o, just stating that humankind is not 100% infallable, ie: there's a finite error level in all of our "observations" and their ensuing conclusions.

...ever heard of the Heisenberg Principle? You don't say "...it IS, or it ISN'T..." but rather "...it has a probability or uncertainty of XX or YY..."

...or, in simpler words--there is no BLACK nor WHITE, just percentages of GRAY(s)!
Easy there killer. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle just states that at the quantum level, specific pairs of physical properties cannot both be known w/ arbitrary precision. Measuring position with greater precision will reduce the precision of a measurement of the particle's momentum, and vice versa. It doesn't mean that everything is uncertain to some extent, that's a given w/o complete a priori info AFAIK, but that there are trade-offs in measuring stuff that's linked.

Maybe GW is just raptorjesus hugging the planet extra hard. It's possible because we don't know everything about the universe, but it's not probable given what we do know about the universe.
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