Sunday, August 01, 2004

The Physics of John Kerry

Jay Tea at Wizbang calls it the "Kerry Uncertainty Principle":
Werner Heisenberg was a quantum physicist of the early and mid 20th Century. He’s probably best well known for his Uncertainty Principle, which states that one can know the exact position of a particle or its exact speed, but not both simultaneously. Heisenberg pointed out that the mere fact of observing such particles changes them, and renders prior observations moot.

Were Heisenberg alive today, and were he more interested in politics than subatomic particles, he would have made the same discovery by observing John Kerry’s positions on issues. It seems the more one examines where the Democratic nominee stands on an issue, the less you actually know.
My comment:
I think Kerry's mind exhibits the qualities of Schrodinger's cat; his state of mind is an unpredictable, random event. Wikipedia explains the concept:

A cat [Kerry's mind] is placed in a sealed box [his head]. Attached to the box is an apparatus containing a radioactive nucleus and a canister of poison gas [his thought processes]. There...is a 50% chance of the nucleus decaying in one hour. If the nucleus decays, it will emit a particle that triggers the apparatus, which opens the canister and kills the cat...However, when the box is opened [Kerry speaks] the experimenter sees only a "...dead cat" or a "...living cat [whatever happens to come into Kerry's mind at the moment]."