By Ritchie Calder
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That is not enough; we cannot predict where Mars will be next Thursday unless we know the speed and direction in which it is traveling. But (Heisenberg reasoned) if you use X rays or other intensive rays, they are so energetic that they will kick the electron forward or sideways. So you have changed its speed or its position at any moment and possibly its direction until you cannot be sure where it is going. What The Theory of Indeterminacy, or, The Uncertainty Principle boils down to is this: in the case of one electron, you can observe its speed at any moment, but you cannot know both speed and position simultaneously, which is what matters if you want to predict its future behavior.
This experiment showed that his particles must be only about 1/1840th of the mass of hydrogen atoms and that they were traveling with velocities of some 1,500 kilometers a second. He first called them "corpuscles," which conveyed the idea that electricity was not a continuous intangible something, but the swarming of infinitesimal specks. In fact, he and Rutherford strained them out by passing them through tubes filled with cotton wool, as the pips are strained out of raspberry jelly by the jelly bag.
And today the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies reflects Comenius' intention. But it is not only on the high intellectual level of synthesis and assimilation, as at Princeton, that Comenius needs his present-day expression. We need a heart pump to spread the corpuscles of science through the body politic. We have to restore something of the inquiring spirit and common understanding which was shared by the members of The Lunar Society and personified in that oneman Pansophicon, Benjamin Franklin.