4.0366 Responses: Image Databases; Heisenberg (2/30)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 6 Aug 90 22:19:27 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0366. Monday, 6 Aug 1990.
(1) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 90 16:19:53 PDT (12 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 4.0355 Queries
(2) Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 08:37:48 EDT (18 lines)
From: Germaine Warkentin <WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Heisenberg
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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 90 16:19:53 PDT
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 4.0355 Queries (5/115)
Re Image data bases. Contact Steve Jacobson (csvsj@cmsa.berkeley.edu)
for information about an image data base system which UC Berkeley has
developed for UNIX workstations (currently available for SUN).
Jacobson can probably provide information about other such systems
Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley
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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 08:37:48 EDT
From: Germaine Warkentin <WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Heisenberg
Sarah Higley's query about the "uncertainty principle" reminds me of a
wonderful story. Several years ago, at a dinner party at York
University in Toronto, I sat next to a noted physicist, and took the
opportunity to ask him about Heisenberg and what physicists thought
about the "uncertainty principle." Across the table from us was sitting
a committed post-structuralist, whose face visibly revealed her
expectations as I asked the final question, "Well, how the dickens do
you _do_ physics then, given the implications of what Heisenberg says."
She was utterly dejected when the physicist put his arm around my
shoulder and with an air of post-prandial command said "Germaine, you
can do a _hell_ of a lot of physics before you get to Heisenberg!" I
have since established this as Warkentin's Relative-Certainty Principle,
and might even publish it, if I ever get around to it. Maybe. Germaine
Warkentin (WARKENT@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)