uncertainty principle


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Synonyms for uncertainty principle

(quantum theory) the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at the same time

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On 1 March Allan Gyngell AO addressed the branch on 'The Uncertainty Principle: New Zealand and Australia in a Changing World'.
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Maggiore, "A generalized uncertainty principle in quantum gravity," Physics Letters B, vol.
Therefore the Heisenberg uncertainty principle gets additional correction due to the presence of a quantum gravity, which is well known as Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) [10,11], given by
Therefore, the main objective of the present paper is to establish full uncertainty principle for the two-sided QLCT, which is a new general form of component-wise uncertainty principle for the two-sided QLCT.
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MEL: I didn't know how I was going to approach the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle because in Star Trek, as I write in the book, they were aware of this principle and the problem it created for explaining how a transporter would operate.
Many useful properties of the QFT were obtained such as shift, modulation, convolution, correlation, differentiation, energy conservation, and uncertainty principle. It was first introduced in [1] for the analysis of 2D linear time-invariant partial differential systems and then applied in color image processing [2, 3].
Leine believes in a kind of human uncertainty principle: chained to conventions we may well be, but freedom is always within reach--only don't expect too much from it.
It was totally within the realm of the uncertainty principle and the physical laws of the court room.
In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle refers to the position and momentum of a particle cannot be determined simultaneously, the uncertainty of position ([DELTA]x) and uncertainty of momentum ([DELTA]p) obey the following inequality
This is maximalism of the maximum order, so the novel also includes dissertations on Nikola Tesla, Morse code, electromagnetic pulses and, perhaps inevitably, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and Schrodinger's hapless cat.
The Emergency was imposed in 1975, not 1977; in the Mahabharata, Madri had two sons, not one; and the author mistakenly refers to the Observer Effect in Physics as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle ( though, to be fair, the two are often confused).
Further on comes the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which Susskind is able to explain thanks to the preceding foundation, rather than just stating it, as most popular books do.