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Message no. 1
From: "D. Ghost" <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Encephalons, Combat Pool, and Heisenberg's Principle
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:02:40 -0500
<Joke>

Ok. I know! Character with Math SPU 4, Encephalon 4, Cerebral Booster
2, Intelligence of 6, and a Physics skill of 12 calculates the velocities
of all incoming projectiles so precisely that they could be any where in
the universe, thus reducing the chance that any such projectile would hit
him/her to an infitesmally small number ...

</Joke>

D. Ghost (Who hopes he got that right ...)
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
o/` Trideo killed the Video Star ... o/`

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Message no. 2
From: Michael vanHulst <Schizi@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Encephalons, Combat Pool, and Heisenberg's Principle
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:17:59 EDT
In a message dated 9/5/98 8:10:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dghost@****.COM
writes:

> <Joke>
>
> Ok. I know! Character with Math SPU 4, Encephalon 4, Cerebral Booster
> 2, Intelligence of 6, and a Physics skill of 12 calculates the velocities
> of all incoming projectiles so precisely that they could be any where in
> the universe, thus reducing the chance that any such projectile would hit
> him/her to an infitesmally small number ...
>
> </Joke>
>
more like he calculates the velocities of all incoming projectiles so
precisely that they KNOW the bullet is going to hit them, and know WHERE it
will hit them, as it does.

Add in a move-by-wire-4 and the synaptic accelerator-1, then you can see the
bullet as it comes to you, calculate the trajectory, rush in, hit the bullet
with your cyber-hand in the right way so that you can send the bullet wherever
you want.

Of course you would probably be a cyber-zombie, get lost in the details of the
bullet racing towards you, and not realise you got hit until they woke you up
later and told you.
Message no. 3
From: The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU>
Subject: Re: Encephalons, Combat Pool, and Heisenberg's Principle
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 15:27:31 -0500
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, D. Ghost wrote:
> <Joke>
> Ok. I know! Character with Math SPU 4, Encephalon 4, Cerebral Booster
> 2, Intelligence of 6, and a Physics skill of 12 calculates the velocities
> of all incoming projectiles so precisely that they could be any where in
> the universe, thus reducing the chance that any such projectile would hit
> him/her to an infitesmally small number ...
> </Joke>

funny joke but i got to put on my old Physics Majors hat :)

<Physics wennie>
But the Heisenberg's Uncertancy Principle only works on the
sub-atomic level. When you are dealing with sub-atomic particles the
photons or other wavepackets you are using to collect your information on
the particle in question have enough energy to change the velocity of the
particle in question. At the macroscopic level the energy transfer is
negligable to the energy of the total system(in this case the bullet) and
the velocity is not grossly altered.
Now if you are talking about the probibility wave functions that
make up all matter and the possiblilty of the "location" of a particle to
spontainiously move to one of the tails of the bell curve well that would
take atleast a.....
</Physics wennie>

I am not letting myself have flashbacks to Quantium mechanics! That
course is the reason i switched my major to Computer Science.:)

Now you could use that mental math to let you calculate where the bullets
would transverse the plane of your body and (assuming sufficent reaction
enhansements) shift your body so that they do not intersect the..
AAAAHHHHH You got me talking in Physics Speak again. I need to go read
some SR novels or something to get it out of my head. :)

Thomas Price
AKA The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
Message no. 4
From: Adam Getchell <acgetchell@*******.EDU>
Subject: Re: Encephalons, Combat Pool, and Heisenberg's Principle
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:21:43 -0700
><Physics wennie>
> But the Heisenberg's Uncertancy Principle only works on the
>sub-atomic level. When you are dealing with sub-atomic particles the

Well, technically HUP formulation is product of energy and time equal to
h-bar, that being Planck's constant divided by 2 pi, so sufficiently short
times give macroscopic results, assuming no causality problems .... ;-)

> Now if you are talking about the probibility wave functions that
>make up all matter and the possiblilty of the "location" of a particle to
>spontainiously move to one of the tails of the bell curve well that would
>take atleast a.....

Tunneling effect of negligible probability or extremely long observation
time ... ;-)

></Physics wennie>
>
>I am not letting myself have flashbacks to Quantium mechanics! That
>course is the reason i switched my major to Computer Science.:)

"The Force is strong in this one ... "

>Now you could use that mental math to let you calculate where the bullets
>would transverse the plane of your body and (assuming sufficent reaction
>enhansements) shift your body so that they do not intersect the..
>AAAAHHHHH You got me talking in Physics Speak again. I need to go read
>some SR novels or something to get it out of my head. :)

"If you only knew the Power of the Dark side!"

;-)

> Thomas Price
> AKA The Bookworm
>thomas.m.price@*******.edu

--Adam

acgetchell@*******.edu
"Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability in the opponent." --Sun Tzu

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