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Originally Posted by gwiz
The Uncertainty Principle is the fact then if you try to measure exactly where something is and where it's going, there is a minimum level of uncertainty that you cannot better. Basically, this is because any measurement method disturbs what it is trying to measure.
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I believe most physicists (at least many) will tell you that the uncertainty is NOT because your measurement method disturbs what you are measuring. Rather, it is an intrinsic characteristic in the quantum realm.
As an aside....
While walking with Heisenberg, the physicist Felix Bloch, who had just read Weyl's Space, Time and Matter, felt moved to declare that space is simply the field of linear equations. Heisenberg replied, 'Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.'"