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From: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Aspect inverted - a much more frightening idea?
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 06:48:58 EDT
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First of all: *Please* cross-post (and finally move) philosophical articles
to sci.philosophy.tech, as people in sci.physics get bored with them, and
S.P.T is especially designed for (among others) these discussions.

What about not collapsing a wave-function, but making it uncollapsable?
Suppose I could split a moron into two half-wits in such a way that both
half-wits had the same (say) impuls. Now I could measure the impuls of
one of them with any degree of accuracy I might want. But, as the two
half-wits have the same impulse, by doing so I would know the impulse of
the other hals-wit to the same degree of accuracy. Now, what would happen
if I tried to measure its location? The first photograph of a non-collapsed
wave-function?

To avoid flames: for "same impuls" read "opposite impuls", and for
impuls/location read your pet duo of incommensurables.
-- 
						Biep.  (biep@cs.vu.nl via mcvax)
	"Law" is the name given to a collection of rules describing
	how to act with people that do not follow the law.