A fleeting reality, infotografiable, requires proper management of ACME devices:
"Imagine that you want to see a very elusive animal that only comes out at night. One possibility is to take a picture with flash, but flash itself cause the flight to safety. The same happened with the atom, in principle, could take a picture with flash, but the electrons send flash drive. One way to avoid frightening the animal is to use very weak light or infrared light can not see, but with no output electrons: to observe the position of an electron is needed, as little a quantum of radiation, as X-ray, to be exact, which would be sufficient to eject the electron from the atom. Infrared quanta are soft and could be used to measure the speed of an electron, like the police use radar to check the speed of a car, but precisely because their long wavelength, infrared quanta would give us the electron's position with little accuracy. If one attempts to measure simultaneously the velocity and position of an electron, both come affected by a certain amount of uncertainty, as the famous Heisenberg relationship. "
Otto R. Frisch, The fission of the atom to the hydrogen bomb. Memories of a nuclear physicist , Alianza, Madrid, 1982 (Cambridge, 1979), pp . 114-115
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