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

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 main difficulty in finding a theory that unifies gravity with the other forces is that general relativity is a “classical” theory; that is, it does not incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking