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Old 07-October-2008, 06:16 PM
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I think Werner Heisenberg explained it best in his 1927 paper:

"The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa."

from Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik
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