heisenberg's microscope
Heisenberg's microscope refers to a thought experiment that illustrates the limitations imposed by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle on our ability to accurately measure both the position and momentum of a particle simultaneously. It highlights the inherent trade-off between precision in the measurement of these properties, suggesting that the more precisely one is measured, the less precisely the other can be determined.
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