Sentence examples for has a definite position from inspiring English sources
Each of these points has a definite position on the x and y axes of the work plan.
If you measure the position of Jupiter then you are measuring something real: Jupiter has a definite position and you can estimate the probable error in your observations.
It tends to suggest incorrectly that the electron really has a definite position and velocity and that they simply have not been determined.
Some interpretations of quantum mechanics, e.g. those of Heisenberg and Bohr, deny this; while others, e.g. the interpretation of de Broglie and Bohm insist that each individual system has a definite position and momentum (see the entry on Bohmian mechanics).
In particular, if in the EPR/B experiment the L-apparatus pointer has a definite position before the L-measurement and the R-particle temporarily comes to possess definite position during the L-measurement, then the GRW/Pearle models involve action at a distance and thus also action* at a distance.
After all, the moon is made of these particles, and quantum theory holds that until it is observed, a particle doesn't have a definite position.
To say that it is really one or the other, or to say that the electron really has both a definite position and momentum at the same time, is to go beyond the limits of science.
But she has a definite warrior side".
Although interpretations of quantum mechanics, in which each system has a definite value for its position and momentum are still viable, this is not to say that they are without strange features of their own; they do not imply a return to classical physics.
Mr. Romney has not taken a definite position on it, though he has said he sees no reason to change it.
