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SergeantQueen's avatar

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

Asked by SergeantQueen (13398points) 9 hours ago

Or, the time I posted this
1/14/25 1:10PM

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gorillapaws's avatar

In Roman Numeral format?

ragingloli's avatar

That is literally unknowable.

smudges's avatar

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.

Zaku's avatar

I keep trying to paste it into Fluther, but there are technical issues.

Dutchess_III's avatar

RIGH THERE! Opps. It’s gone.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Its all centered on Trump at the center of the universe.

Brian1946's avatar

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.

SergeantQueen's avatar

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?

smudges's avatar

Why is it relevant to anything? Why should we care?

SergeantQueen's avatar

You shouldn’t care.

smudges's avatar

^^ LOL I don’t, but I wondered if you were going somewhere with the question or answers.

seawulf575's avatar

IT is all exactly where is should be.

Dutchess_III's avatar

But moving like crazy @seawulf575.

SergeantQueen's avatar

No, I have no clue what to do with that information, I just thought it would be fun to know

canidmajor's avatar

Somebody should send this to Werner.

canidmajor's avatar

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

SergeantQueen's avatar

Who is Werner

ragingloli's avatar

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

SergeantQueen's avatar

Oh he would think I am a fucking idiot

canidmajor's avatar

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

SergeantQueen's avatar

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

seawulf575's avatar

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

Strauss's avatar

And THAT, as they say, is THAT!

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