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
Quantum theory tells us that particles obey Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and we can never know their position or velocity at the same time.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
This is because of an idea in quantum physics called Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 2023
And putting an observer in an exam room would create the medical version of the uncertainty principle: “Once an observer is in there everyone’s behavior will subtly change,” he said.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
Thus all the complicated structures that we see in the universe might be explained by the no boundary condition for the universe together with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
