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From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP (Kevin Kissell)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Re: Free [Will Lunch Software]
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Date: Sat, 14-Jul-84 13:48:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 14 13:48:25 1984
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Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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(ahem)

> According to Maxwell ( I think), if you know the location and motion of
> every particle in a system at one moment then you know the entire history
> and future of that system, if you're sophisticated enough. 

An awful lot of physics has been done since Maxwell's time that contradicts
this.  Werner Heisenberg, for example, demonstrated that the precise location
and the preceise motion of a particle *cannot* be known at the same time.

Kevin D. Kissell
Fairchild Research Center
Advanced Processor Development
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