[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paradoxes

[Jay Litwyn]

The more you know about how it is, the less you know about how it changes.
The more you know about how it changes, the less you know about how it is.
Just measuring something changes it.
--Restatement of Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

<wjhonson at aol.com> wrote in message 
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> "An electron is not matter."
> Interesting idea.  Do you have an authority for that statement ?
> Sounds a little odd to me.
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> From: stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Fri, Jul 24, 2009 4:47 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Paradoxes
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:
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>> An electron is uncrushable.? Can an electron decay?
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> An electron is not matter. Its a subatomic particle and constituent of
> matter. It cannot be crushed, because its not in the scale of objects
> to which crushing (weight force / relative mass) apply. It can of
> course be annihilated, or "decay," which satisfies my rebuttal of the
> indestructibility concept.
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> -Steven
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