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Old 5th August 2015, 02:36 AM   #267
Pixel42
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Originally Posted by Jodie View Post
I thought it was a well known fact that the observer affects what is being observed?
It's a well known oversimplification of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle that causes much misunderstanding, actually.

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How do you explain Pi? A number should be finite but Pi is infinite.
Rational numbers are finite, irrational numbers are infinite. The word 'should' is inapplicable.
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