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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "A company claims to have invented a device that can measure the momentum of objects inside it with extreme
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\n" ); document.write( "Explain why the claimed performance cannot possibly be accurate, and estimate the smallest possible size of a
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "        In this post,  the problem is posed in wrong way,  so it is either \r
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document.write( "From the uncertainty principle, the uncertainty in determining the position is\r\n" );
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document.write( "                Δx ≥ \"5.27%2A10%5E%28-9%29\" meters.\r\n" );
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document.write( "This uncertainty is  MUCH-MUCH-much-much less that the size of a matchbox.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    THEREFORE, in this problem, the uncertainty principle of the quantum mechanics \r\n" );
document.write( "    PROHIBITS for the device to have the size less than  \"5.27%2A10%5E%28-9%29\" meters,\r\n" );
document.write( "    but DOES NOT prohibit for the device to have a greater size, like a matchbox.\r\n" );
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document.write( "HENCE, as a CONCLUSION, a device in this problem, which provides the given precision, \r\n" );
document.write( "EASILY may have a size of a matchbox - nothing from quantum mechanics  prevents it.\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The artificial intelligence is like a baby now. It is in the experimental stage
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "This time, again,  it made an error.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Although the @CPhill' solution are copy-paste  Google  AI solutions,  there is one essential difference.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Every time,  Google  AI  makes a note at the end of its solutions that  Google  AI  is experimental
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "All @CPhill' solutions are copy-paste of  Google  AI  solutions, with one difference:
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Every time,  @CPhill embarrassed to tell the truth.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "And the last my comment.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "When you obtain such posts from @CPhill,  remember,  that  NOBODY  is responsible for their correctness,
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