The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.

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Popular paraphrase of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, often attributed to him in simplified form. Not his original wording of the principle.

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1927 (Heisenberg's principle)

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