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xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls" (xkcd.com)

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After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heinsenberg principle : once you made one measure, the measured target may not be there anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It's not even really uncertain, after a tennisball to the face, they'll definitely move

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