Fun_People Archive
26 Nov
HCLOTD (Heisenberg Certainty Lecture of the Day)

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 94 21:03:16 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: HCLOTD (Heisenberg Certainty Lecture of the Day)

[Transcribed from the NPR rebroadcast of the 1994 Ig-Nobel Prize ceremony.   
Thanks go to Dan Lockshon for help remembering the exact wording. -psl]


	A Restatement of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
	    for the Benefit of the United States Congress

        "When your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero."

                                - William J. Lipscomb
                                  Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

© 1994 Peter Langston