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  • n  (quantum theory) the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at the same time
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  • Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
    ananyo writes "Encapsulating the strangeness of quantum mechanics is a single mathematical expression. According to every undergraduate physics textbook, the uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously know the exact position and momentum of a subatomic particle — the more precisely one knows the particle's position at a given moment, the less precisely one can know the ...
    June 26, 2013 - Slashdot

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