Random Tidbits
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005The other day, I’m at the deli and I say, “Waiter, there’s a subatomic particle in my borscht! It’s enormous! Look at it go!” So the waiter says, “I’m sorry, sir, but you know what Heisenberg says about the limitation of measuring two properties of a quantum object with infinite precision.” “But Werner Heisenberg was a big fat Nazi,” I say. So the waiter says, “I’ll get the manager.”
Patricia Marx, of The New Yorker, impersonating Albert Einstein
There’s just something about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that draws me to any mention of it…