Fun Fizziks Finds 5: edition 007
January 25, 2008 - 3:50pm — constan
Don't miss James Bond's fight to determine the lowest-energy state of consolation in:
...his twenty-second film.
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Bad physics -- uncertainty
With such a short time (twenty-second film), this means
Delta t = 20s (Is it on yet? I can't tell! = Uncertainty in time)
(Delta E)(Delta t) >= hbar/2
Therefore, the energy can be known, at best, to hbar/(40s) = 1.646 x10^(-17) eV, which is approximately 20 attoelectronvolts. That's some energy resolution! The critics will be able to determine the "energy" of the film very precisely. (I don't think you'll get that resolution in instrumentation, though.)
This is gratuitous abuse (and egregious misuse) of the energy-time uncertainty principle. Don't tell my quantum mechanics professors on me!
I apologize...
... for setting Kathy off on that tangent.
It is the 22nd Bond film. Though the "twenty-second" Bond film could be made for a much lower budget.
Apology accepted, Captain Needa
I generally prefer my comments to intersect the surface of the post in conversation-space at more than one point, but, sadly, I frequently make normal comments. I forgive you (this time) for impelling me, once again, to do so.