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Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true?
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Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true?
Quote:Pioneering experiments have cast doubt on a founding idea of the branch of physics called quantum mechanics.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19489385

What do you think? Are they misrepresenting Heisenberg's work here? Or is the quantum world not as immeasurable and unpredictable as we first thought as we merely lacked the technology and precision to know a particle pairs physical properties and positions?
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Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true? - by Welsh cake - September 8, 2012 at 1:41 am
RE: Uncertainty principle is...not certainly true? - by Cato - September 8, 2012 at 2:27 am

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