What is the exact position and velocity of every particle in the universe at time you are reading this?
Or, the time I posted this
1/14/25 1:10PM
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That is literally unknowable.
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says you can’t jointly know the exact position and velocity of any particle, let alone all of them, so this situation is unreachable. In fact, even approximating these values can only be done to a certain limit.
I keep trying to paste it into Fluther, but there are technical issues.
RIGH THERE! Opps. It’s gone.
Its all centered on Trump at the center of the universe.
That is not only empirically impossible to know because there are no means to acquire that data, but it’s also logically impossible to know, because by the time anyone answers the question, those locations will have changed.
Follow up:
Can we create a robot that can do all of this? Instantly calculate this and put it into a file that can be viewed at any point?
Why is it relevant to anything? Why should we care?
^^ LOL I don’t, but I wondered if you were going somewhere with the question or answers.
IT is all exactly where is should be.
No, I have no clue what to do with that information, I just thought it would be fun to know
Somebody should send this to Werner.
Heisenberg. Werner Heisenberg. Of the eponymous “Heisenberg uncertainty principle”.
Oh he would think I am a fucking idiot
Damn, smart AND hot? I was born in the wrong time.
And THAT, as they say, is THAT!
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