Quote: uncertainty principle of Heisenberg: the product of the uncertainties in the position and momentum of a particle is greater than Planck's constant

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This is the way Heisenberg stated the uncertainty … The uncertainties in the position and momentum of … special case of the uncertainty principle that was … way to determine which of two alternatives is … [Otherwise one could use the position of the holes and the momentum change of a free moving screen to identify which hole the electron went through while retaining the interference pattern.]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: uncertainty principle, general form: one can not build equipment to distinguish two alternatives without at the same time destroying the pattern of interference

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