POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
8 Sep 2024 07:15:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Jun 2008 13:12:54
Message: <48442a15@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >   What the mathematical model *can* do is to give a distribution function
> > which tells how the electron is distributed in space (a bit like a
> > function which tells how the water is distributed, except that with
> > the electron the "density" of the "water" is not constant).

> No, actually, it tells you the likelihood of finding it at any 
> particular place, were you to look.

  Assuming the particle *is* at some specific location at any given time
instead of being distributed in space.

> Yes, it can actually hit the other side of the Earth. It can also hit a 
> week before you shoot it. Very unlikely, but possible.

  I don't believe in the time travelling. As for the location, I assume
the probability of it hitting the other side of the Earth is so small that
some physical constant prevents it.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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