Heisenberg Articulates the Uncertainty Principle

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Article abstract: With his uncertainty principle, Heisenberg asserted that there are definite limits to precise knowledge of atomic processes, a theory that has become a cornerstone of modern physics.

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of physics, first published in 1687, were enjoying such enormous success, particularly regarding their power to predict the movements of heavenly bodies, that thinkers such as the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace began to extend these laws to the...

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