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 uncertainty principle implies that the early universe cannot have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
