uncertainty principle
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Simon Stephens’ drama, presented at the Mark Taper Forum in 2017, is a two-hander that tests the validity of the uncertainty principle in the arena of human relationships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Since a bolometer measures power, or photon number, it is not bound to add quantum noise stemming from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in the way that parametric amplifiers are.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
This is because of an idea in quantum physics called Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2023
They pointed out that, according to the uncertainty principle of quantum physics, a pair of particles once associated would be eternally connected, even if they were light-years apart.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
The trouble is, as explained in Chapter 7, that the uncertainty principle means that even “empty” space is filled with pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
