The Uncertainty Principle

“In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position x and momentum p, can be known. Introduced first in 1927, by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, it states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa.”

 

a kind of Uncertainty Principle in relationship: your desire may be to determine as accurately as instruments allow the position of a particle; mine, to determine its velocity or direction. Your accuracy, according to Heisenberg, inevitably blurs mine; your experimental result achieved is mine thwarted, and vice versa. Of course, it’s just one experiment. But even to begin to recognize such situations in the dynamics of relationship involves a vast human sophistication, and to recognize them mutually takes a human sophistication exponentially more vast and deep. To coordinate the research somehow in a mutually satisfactory way would be love, or at least one position of love, love with a somewhat indeterminable mass, velocity, and direction.

 

Some relationships are super-conducting super-collider particle accelerators par excellence: two people whose mutual arena of collisions is somehow perfectly constructed to yield either an exceptionally clear reading on some particularity of love, or exceptionally painful chaos of state-of-the-art experimental results of no immediate use or value except to disprove current hypotheses, also called despair at the impossibility of relationship.

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