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Thrax
25 Feb 2008, 10:57pm
<b>Via:</b> Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle)

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is the statement that locating a particle in a small region of space makes the momentum of the particle uncertain; and conversely, that measuring the momentum of a particle precisely makes the position uncertain.

NOT ANY MORE!

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/23/first-film-electron-taken

csimon
26 Feb 2008, 01:05am
"'An attosecond is 10^-18 seconds long, or, expressed in another way: an attosecond is related to a second as a second is related to the age of the universe,' said Mauritsson." Reminds me of when I first heard of the angstrom measurement analogy ...very interesting.

"The film shows the electron's energy distribution." Sort of like watching a hurricane on doplar I assume.

Interesting find Thrax.