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	<title>Comments on: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle</title>
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		<title>By: Jim Stroup</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Stroup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Pablo,

Thank you for your visit and your comments. You certainly don&#039;t lack certainty about the Uncertainty Principle, do you? It is odd, though - even to many quantum physicists, including the one who opened the field, Einstein. On the one hand, he&#039;s not alone, and on the other, many quantum physicists who suffer little doubt about the veracity of theorems like this seem to brush aside the very question of doubt the way the rest of us do when we, simply, think the evidence appears sufficient and we want to just move on.

I&#039;m certainly not picking a side in this fight, and haven&#039;t the training to do so. What I can do, though, is evaluate the arguments presented to me, and I see problems in many of them, and clear indications that far too much than is presently warranted is being made of the evidence offered for this or that idea. This is what leads me to listen with rapt attention when these scientists explain their fascinating - and even peculiarly plausible, often highly satisfying - theorems, but still to keep my options open. There is too much evidence of scientists from too many specialties turning out to have sometimes heated disagreements with each other (climatology is hardly the only or even most prominent one).

And yet, for all that, none of this means I disagree with anything you have said - and certainly not with your caution about using these insights as metaphors to explain what is happening in our lives in the classical dimensions. Many management gurus, sadly, are jumping on that bandwagon and claiming the most absurd connections between the two, often leaving the question of metaphor out of it altogether. 

So, your comments are welcome and interesting in this context, and I thank you for them! I hope we&#039;ll see you here again soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Pablo,</p>
<p>Thank you for your visit and your comments. You certainly don&#8217;t lack certainty about the Uncertainty Principle, do you? It is odd, though &#8211; even to many quantum physicists, including the one who opened the field, Einstein. On the one hand, he&#8217;s not alone, and on the other, many quantum physicists who suffer little doubt about the veracity of theorems like this seem to brush aside the very question of doubt the way the rest of us do when we, simply, think the evidence appears sufficient and we want to just move on.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m certainly not picking a side in this fight, and haven&#8217;t the training to do so. What I can do, though, is evaluate the arguments presented to me, and I see problems in many of them, and clear indications that far too much than is presently warranted is being made of the evidence offered for this or that idea. This is what leads me to listen with rapt attention when these scientists explain their fascinating &#8211; and even peculiarly plausible, often highly satisfying &#8211; theorems, but still to keep my options open. There is too much evidence of scientists from too many specialties turning out to have sometimes heated disagreements with each other (climatology is hardly the only or even most prominent one).</p>
<p>And yet, for all that, none of this means I disagree with anything you have said &#8211; and certainly not with your caution about using these insights as metaphors to explain what is happening in our lives in the classical dimensions. Many management gurus, sadly, are jumping on that bandwagon and claiming the most absurd connections between the two, often leaving the question of metaphor out of it altogether. </p>
<p>So, your comments are welcome and interesting in this context, and I thank you for them! I hope we&#8217;ll see you here again soon.</p>
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		<title>By: The Management Uncertainty Principle &#124; Managing Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Historical Figures Lead Us to the Topic of Entanglement &#124; Wave Mechanics Material Geek</title>
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		<dc:creator>Historical Figures Lead Us to the Topic of Entanglement &#124; Wave Mechanics Material Geek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Pablo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For people studying quantum physics there is nothing odd about the uncertainty principle as well as other uncommon things at the “classical levels” such as particle time travel, teleportation, the existence of quantum-scale wormholes, etc. anyone entering the field of quantum physics knows right from the beginning that he or she will be dealing with things that sometimes defy “common sense” but bear in mind that save some very specific phenomena like the Casimir effect or the Hawking evaporation, quantum physics has nothing to do with us, at, indeed, a classical level of existence in the sense given by traditional physics. These two strange quantum effects do manifest at a macroscopic scale, but they are rather exceptional and their only conceivable application would be if someday humankind would develop some sort of faster-than-light or hyperspace-bending method for fast interstellar travel. More than challenging old-fashioned ideas in known areas, quantum stuff opens completely new ones that are hard to compare with the old ones, so strictly speaking, using quantum metaphors to explain our “real” world might prove as uncertain as what Schroedinger and Heisenberg suggested.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For people studying quantum physics there is nothing odd about the uncertainty principle as well as other uncommon things at the “classical levels” such as particle time travel, teleportation, the existence of quantum-scale wormholes, etc. anyone entering the field of quantum physics knows right from the beginning that he or she will be dealing with things that sometimes defy “common sense” but bear in mind that save some very specific phenomena like the Casimir effect or the Hawking evaporation, quantum physics has nothing to do with us, at, indeed, a classical level of existence in the sense given by traditional physics. These two strange quantum effects do manifest at a macroscopic scale, but they are rather exceptional and their only conceivable application would be if someday humankind would develop some sort of faster-than-light or hyperspace-bending method for fast interstellar travel. More than challenging old-fashioned ideas in known areas, quantum stuff opens completely new ones that are hard to compare with the old ones, so strictly speaking, using quantum metaphors to explain our “real” world might prove as uncertain as what Schroedinger and Heisenberg suggested.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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