[Science!] How a quantum physicist went to jail. A cop pulled me over once. ""Son,"" he said, ""you know it's illegal to go 90 in a 35-mph zone."" No question mark at all. Being guilty as hell, I naturally smart-assed the reply, ""How can you tell? You see, quantum mechanics tells us that you cannot determine both an object's position and momentum at the same time. As since all the universe is in motion in the grand ballet of planetary motionsof which Earth is but one humble rockposition is a ve…