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Measurement:
“Heisenberg’s principle of indeterminism prohibits any exact measurement or absolutely exact physical agreement of mechanical or structural fitting. As a consequence, engineering and mechanics can only reduce the degree of error to be tolerated. Scientists must be content with relatively elegant agreements. ‘All the truth and nothing but the truth,’ as pledged under imposed oath giving in courts of justice in many countries, is vainly pledged, for, contrary to indeterminism, absolute ‘truth’ is assumed to be legally demonstrable in the eyes of the administrators of humanly invented law. Detection of any natural aberration, witting or unwitting, may bring prosecution and conviction for false testimony. For a long time mechanics have known what Heisenberg-- and science through him-- so recently discovered to be true: that Universe forbids realization of exactitude. The Heisenberg indeterminism implies eternity to be persistent within the physical and metaphysical, ever-evolving continuity-finiteness of scenario Universe, in which the myriads of nonsimultaneously shaken kaleidoscopes are never either simultaneous or identically repetitious. Having both the finiteness discovered by modern physics”
