What is the exact position and velocity of every particle in the universe at time you are reading this?

In Roman Numeral format?

Yes please

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.

UNKNOWABLE !

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?

You shouldn’t 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.

But moving like crazy @seawulf575.

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.

Ooh, I see @smudges already has. ;-)

Who is Werner

Heisenberg. Werner Heisenberg. Of the eponymous “Heisenberg uncertainty principle”.

Oh he would think I am a fucking idiot

He would think we’re all idiots, compared to him, we are. An interesting and brilliant man.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg

Damn, smart AND hot? I was born in the wrong time.

@Dutchess_III No matter where you go, there you are.

And THAT, as they say, is THAT!

Light travels at the speed of light. Space-time is distorted, and the light is infinite speed. Its quite possible that the whole universe comes from one beam of light traveling at infinite speed.

Well the speed of light is not infinite. It travels at 186,000 miles per second.

AND @RedDeerGuy1YarnLady… where did that one beam of light come from if the universe wasn’t created then?

@Dutchess_III From the multi-verse. Time slows down when anything traveling at the speed of light, or any speed.

An astronaut spent so much time in the International Space Station that he gained, (or lost), a second from every 90 minutes orbiting the Earth. Wider scales could pause time from Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity (or special relativity).

I know that..

“Can we create a robot that can do all of this?”
– No. And no one will ever be able to do anywhere near all of that.

You can’t know them. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle assures this. The act of measuring one affects the other.

Of course, as @ragingloli will know, if you have a working Heisenberg Compensator then it’s totally knowable.

If you did into quantum physics, there are MANY types of particles, that can be doing different things at once, or a particle can be in one place and another at the same time.

It’s very counter intuitive.

As far as just the meat and potatoes of the question, we don’t even have a way of observing or measuring such data.

Perhaps the most basic answer is, “in motion.”
Most particles are moving, for one reason or another.

A Heisenberg Compensator powered by a flux capacitor can tell you everything.

I couldn’t even tell you the precise position and velocity of every brain cell in Trump’s head.

DTs brain cells:
Position: scrambled
Velocity: -365 million miles / second.

It can’t be that hard to keep track of his four brain cells.

Forty-two.

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That’s just pi, not the answer to the question you asked.

@SergeantQueen, you’re a bunch younger than a lot of us, do you get @Blackberry’s “forty-two” reference? Forgive me if it’s obvious to you, some under forty years old have been confused when I mentioned it.

@canidmajor Yes, but what is the ultimate question?

@SergeantQueen is never gonna shut up! And you can bet there are infinite 42s in there.

@smudges

“That’s just pi….”

Actually, the 517th digit is incorrect! ;-p

LOL!! No it’s not @Brian1946!! Unless you really counted, in which case I understand your sock answer.

Somebody move this to Social before we get sent to Fluther Hell!

The meaning of life is 42

@SergeantQueen

“The meaning of life is 42”

That is correct- its meaning was discovered in 1983. ;-)

^^ 1983. When I was 24. Woww maaan!

@Dutchess_III Read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the sequels. It will all be clear to you.

I thought it was Monty Python.
I’ll check it out.

@Dutchess_III You’re a really hoopy frood! The best versions were the BBC radio shows which are now available remastered on CD. Second best versions are the books.

Mods, this is fun. Please move to social, don’t delete the comments :(

BTW…I can read that @Caravanfan!

[mod says] Moved to Social on request

There’s a work around.

When you start playing with 0’s you can know the location and velocity of a particle.

Zero velocity and zero location. Then you let go and can predict with increasing uncertainty.

You can make a Quantum calculation with just zeros.

I don’t know what you said, but what the question asked is impossible.

“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.”

@smudges Sorry. I don’t know how to explain other than you can cheat in mathematics, by using zero’s and infinity in calculations. Zero velocity, and zero location, or the opposite. Infinite velocity and Infinite location.

As a side note you can make zeros and ones. The basics of computing.

Yes, I understand the basics of computing. But cheating in mathmatics is just the manipulation of numbers, so that wouldn’t answer the question.

@smudges You are right, but It would be a start. One step at a time. Baby steps. Could lead to another version of Quantum computing?

Subatomic Quantum computing. Smaller than electrons.

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