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Quantum motorcycle mechanics

The apocryphal story that follows involves two of the most famous names in the field of Physics known as Quantum Mechanics: Werner Heisenberg (Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle); and Erwin Schrodinger (‘Schrodinger’s cat’ – a paradox in which he postulated that a cat is simultaneously alive and dead until its condition is actually observed).

In a nutshell what these two were saying is that the very act of observation/measurement alters the predictability of events. For example, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle postulates that at the subatomic (i.e. Quantum) level, you cannot

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