Heisenberg's indeterminacy relation

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Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901)

Uncertainty principle 1927

The uncertainty principle states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be predicted from initial conditions, and vice versa.

$$\Delta x \Delta p \geq \frac{\hbar}{2}$$

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