[sdiy] Is everything digital?

[KHeck73 at aol.com]

Actually, by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, you could never know  
exactly when only one electron was added. If you knew the specific moment, then  
you can never know if it is zero electrons, or a large amount. There's  a 
probability function of it being there as a unit, and it is either there (one  
unit), or not there (zero units). Position can only be determined over  some time 
span range that allows statistics to take effect. The electron can be  
considered a particle or a wave function depending on the time  frame. Quantum 
mechanics are generally outside our daily experience, so it  seems weird. But the 
electrons probably think we are weird :O)   Oh  yeah, it is real, not a theory. 
We are just so big that we live in a world of  averages.
 
-Karl.
 
In a message dated 5/14/2005 2:17:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sounddoctorin at imt.net writes:

Heheh.  Yeah it's just that..the charge on an individual electron  is 1.6 
x 10^-19 coulumb....which so SO small...and while if you are  talking 
about two metal sphere's electrostatic charge..well yeah...you add  
another electron and the charge bumps up a 'digit', neglecing the  
interspacing effect which is extremely negligable of course in this  
instance..but still..so is what you are saying so I thought you should  
know about it :-). 


 
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