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Does What the Bleep Do We Know have any close cousins?

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07-01-2009 5:54 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Purpledbear
07-01-2009 5:36 PM

Baseball Analogies
What kind of resistance does adding a tool intended to observe an electron add to an electron?
One determines the position of an electron by bouncing photons off of it. That's kind of like Nolan Ryan attempting to determine your location by throwing baseballs at you. I'm failry sure that would alter your behavior.
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