uncertainty principle
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Light cannot easily be confined into extremely small spaces because the uncertainty principle links its confinement to its wavelength.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
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
All these applications are based on the counterintuitive features of quantum theory, such as superpositions, entanglement and the uncertainty principle, which are also part of real quantum theory.
From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 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 trouble is, as explained in Chapter 7, that the uncertainty principle means that even “empty” space is filled with pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
