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
To the chagrin of many physicists, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle determines that one cannot simultaneously know a signal's position and momentum, or voltage and current, with accuracy.
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
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
The first is the limitation that the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics sets on our powers of prediction.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
