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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/2021 11:08 AM, Will Martin
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<div class="">The word “status” implies an unchanging state. It’s
often numeric, like a temperature measurement, or an average
wind speed or velocity (speed, plus direction), but technically
speed implies change in location at a measured rate, so it’s a
statistic that doesn’t exist without change. Change in location
is NECESSARY for speed to exist.</div>
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<div class="">A lot of things in weather don’t exist without
change. The barometer readings typically include the modifiers
“falling” or “rising”, because the change in the measurement is
more meaningful than the specific number frozen in time.</div>
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<div class="">Rain implies a quantity of water moving from the
clouds to the ground, changing the state of the cloud (less
moist) and the ground (more wet).</div>
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<p>What you're describing is the uncertainty principle (a function
and its Fourier transform cannot both concentrate on small sets).
The more precisely you narrow down the temporal scope of the
measurement, the less precisely you know the value of the
measurement you're looking for, because the phenomenon itself has
a temporal component. I don't believe the word <i>status</i>
implies an unchanging state, since one needn't attempt to reduce
the temporal domain of a measurement to zero to obtain a status.</p>
<p>In any case, I fail to see the relevance to this conversation.</p>
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