Klarinet Archive - Posting 000798.txt from 2000/07

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] From the other side......
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 06:10:43 -0400

ROFL Bill - Good one!
Tony W.

----- Original Message -----
From: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] From the other side......

> Today I took a day off from music and read a book about quantum
> mechanics.... about the uncertainty principle, about particles that can
> be in two opposing states simultaneously, and so forth.
> The author gave an example of the difference between certainty and
> uncertainty. Of course, it's unfair to lift a sentence out of context,
> so please don't take this seriously.... you had to be there.... but
> given all the messages that I've read here about the uncertainties of
> Mozart's concerto, and since I was drinking a soda pop at the time, the
> following statement made me snarf all over the book:
>
> "In either case the raw material -- the sequence of notes, preserved in
> black and white exactly as they left the composer's hand -- is
> unambiguous and unarguable."
>
>
> Does anyone want to buy a slightly stained copy of a good physics book?

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