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The Uncertainty Principle - is it real?

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01-11-2006 8:45 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by MartinDoms
01-11-2006 2:01 AM

I have always wished that the Uncertainty Principle had been called the Tolerance Principle.

If you buy a piston for your car, it will be dimensioned at some diameter some tolerance. The actual diameter really doesn't matter as long as it is within those bounds.

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