The Uncertainty Principle

Its an accepted axiom in quantum mechanics that you can never really have all the information there is to have. What I mean to say is - you can tell where you are but not how fast you are going OR you can tell how fast you are going but not where you are precicely.

The only reason I mention this is to cast an ever present reminder about giving up before the figurative fat lady does her business.

That one lone rain cell that was about an hour away on my last post has meandered into Forsyth County. The radar echo doesn't show rain anywhere else but here.

AND YET - the rain I was expecting (having moved onto the back porch) has begun to slide north. There is more behind it - but I have this sneaking suspicion that will pass by us as well.

The moral? Well, I suppose it is two fold.

1) Expectation will drive people to do crazy, unexpected things. Getting me out of bed at 1240 in the morning because I think its going to rain for instance. That is expectation of the uncertain beyond definition.

2) If I go inside now, as sure as I live and breathe, it will start raining. So much for all those people who talk about self-sabotage.

Uncertainty rules - whether trying to describe the movement of quantum neutrinos or whether or not I should go back into the air conditioned house and miss what rain may come.

Wondering if it started raining yet? For the sake of the post, I think I will leave you wondering too.

Ain't that just par for the course?