Gzus...
heisenburg's theory does not pertain to the universe, it is a quantum law and refers to electrons, and as some will argue, some quantum laws only hold water on the quantum level. It basically states that we can know either the position(location) or the speed, but not both at any one point in time. So I don't think this is relevant in this particular topic.
The relevant topic is causality, Rrhain has stated in another thread that causality does not hold up in QM. He says that some objects can cause themselves, and I don't know if he was talking about the casimir effect, as he never specified. But to my limited knowledge I am unaware of any case where this is so.
The casimir effect refers to a small attractive force which acts between two close parallel uncharged conducting plates due to quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. When people use this casimir effect in a causality argument they are referring to the virtual particles that occur from photons via the perturbation theory which states that systems can go through intermediate "virtual states" that normally have energies different from that of the initial and final states.
Ergo there is no contradiction to causality in this example.
[This message has been edited by baileyr25, 10-20-2003]
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