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Old 11-May-2006, 03:59 PM
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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.
To clarify this a bit, the more you know about a particle's location, the less you can know about its momentum... and vice versa. Location and momentum are the two commonly referred-to conjugate variables that Swansont mentioned.
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