> Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote: > At 03:21 PM 7/14/02 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >> Eric Cordian wrote: >>> Still, Nature abhors overcomplexification, and plain old quantum > mechanics >>> works just fine for predicting the results of experiments. >> >> Oh yeah? So predict when this radioactive isotope will decay, if you > please. > > You mean "this particular *atom* will decay". > > And while QM can't help you with a particular atom, it also doesn't say > that its impossible that knowledge of internal states of the atom > wouldn't help you predict its fragmentation.
Yes it does. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Ring a Bell? -- Peter Fairbrother