Compl Ementarity

(WikiWordified in this ugly way to avoid spelling mistakes. A compliment is a favourable remark.)

This concept can be helpful when thinking about things which elude your MentalGrasp?, but currently I'm having a hard time explaining how or why.

In my mind this is an UncrystallizedThought?, but in the minds of people like NielsBohr and RobertOppenheimer? it was a .. tool? A way of thinking?

Despite the fact that physics introduces the idea at A-level (or earlier? I forget. 16 year olds can be expected to parrot these apparent facts, even if they don't understand), it wasn't until reading MakingOfTheAtomicBomb? by RichardRhodes? that I saw how it affects thought.

Examples in physics

• There are pairs of properties which, according to the UncertaintyPrinciple of QuantumMechanics, are linked. The more you know about one, the less you know about the other
  • Position and momentum
  • Energy and time
• Particles and waves

Other

(things I haven't fitted to the plan yet)

• MappersVsPackers, re. ReciprocalityTheory.

Maybe the mappers shouldn't write off the packers. Maybe they should embrace also their packer nature? Will ReadRefactorWrite?. Three 'R's.

• GoodAndEvil? Or is that stratching the point?

Links

/me spouts Google results with subjective commentary

• Possibly a bit TouchyFeely? for my liking, http://www.epcomm.com/fmbr/editoral/comarity.htm
• Adopted by psychology, http://www.personalityresearch.org/interpersonal/complementarity.html

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