The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
Wave mechanics
Popular paraphrase of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, often attributed to him in simplified form. Not his original wording of the principle.
1927 (Heisenberg's principle)
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