I just heard Charlie Rose ask Larry Summers: In aggregate, how is the global economy doing?
What a nice specific question sure to elicit useful insights. Here’s another:
“In aggregate, how is the neutron doing?
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In aggregate is really the only way to know about neutrons. If you ask about any specific neutron, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that we can never truly know.
Bit of a shame you didn’t ask about electrons, because this fellow named James Clerk Maxwell gave us a great set of equations to describe them.
Oh, so right you are. I am so ignorant; is it obvious how often I fell asleep during high school physics?