To: Mind-numbed Robot
Perhaps my ignorance and mental limitations blind me to the obvious but the answer to this problem seems to be in the semantics. For a particle to have a position it must be fixed in space, not moving. If it is fixed it has no momentum. Therefore, momentum and position are mutually exclusive.No, extended bodies have position whether or not their momentum is nonzero. A car, travelling down the highway, has a position - it's somewhere at all times, right?
20 posted on
05/30/2003 11:28:05 AM PDT by
Chemist_Geek
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To: Chemist_Geek
....it's somewhere at all times, right? Yes, but when you introduce momentum, or movement, you can't have just one place. You need a sequence of places and therefore no ONE place. As a result, it seems to me, the concept of momentum and position simultaneously is mutually exclusive.
24 posted on
05/30/2003 11:52:21 AM PDT by
Mind-numbed Robot
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