¶ Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
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Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence:
“We’ve discovered experimentally and Heisenberg’s indeterminism makes it very clear that the act of measuring alters that which is measured. Just to single out this phenomenon enough to begin to try and isolate it would be to alter it by doing that. Just the light that comes to bear as you make a microscopic note, just the light there, changes the temperature and the behavior. You discover then that the act measurement always alters the measured. You find the poets saying earlier that the act of just consideration of history alters history. It really does say thought itself simply alters that which you think about.”
¶ Citations
- RBF quoted in San Francisco Oracle, Vol. I, No.11, 1967
