Peirce and Anaximander

[jbor]

on 8/4/01 8:53 AM, Amaranth56 at aol.com at Amaranth56 at aol.com wrote:

> If I understand it correctly, Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty
> says that, on the subatomic level, you can't measure two
> qualities simultaneously and be accurate.  By measuring the
> location of a particle, you affect its speed; by measuring its
> speed, you change its location.
> 
> I might have a detail or two wrong, but the important thing
> is that simply by observing, we change reality.

Yes, the act of observing changes -- itself becomes a part of -- the
phenomenon under investigation. Always makes me think of Webley Silvernail's
lab. mice in _GR_.

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