How to Use uncertainty principle in a Sentence

uncertainty principle

noun

• That leaves us with one option: to lean on Keats’s uncertainty principle and find joy in the mystery.
  — Lindsay Warner, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Sep. 2019
• The point about the uncertainty principle is one that deserves some further study.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2010
• Four hundred years on, Erwin Schrödinger (of the cat in a box which is both dead and alive) and Werner Heisenberg (of the uncertainty principle), among others, tried to explain their findings about quantum physics.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• Clarke does, however, note that not all ‘quantum brain’ theories are based around the uncertainty principle.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2013
• But because of the uncertainty principle in quantum physics, the state of a quantum field is never certain, so its energy can never be exactly zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2018
• This is also an unusually literate movie, one that cites Heisenberg’s own famous uncertainty principle the better to bring it to bear on the scenario itself.
  — Robert Rodat, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• To be clear, squeezing doesn’t violate the uncertainty principle.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
• This same technique of acquiring the minimum amount of information needed for a measurement seemed to offer a way around the uncertainty principle.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2014
• But the uncertainty principle, formulated by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in the 1920s, states that there is a fundamental limit to how well the position and momentum of an object such as a drum can be known.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 May 2021
• But the uncertainty principle works for other quantities, too.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Oct. 2017
• The uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1927, is a consequence of the fuzziness of the universe at microscopic scales.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2014
• The uncertainty principle The take-away from all this: No alternative source of collision damage coverage — your auto insurance, your credit card or a third-party — completely isolates you from risk.
  — Ed Perkins, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
• Werner Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prize for helping to found the field of quantum mechanics and developing foundational ideas like the Copenhagen interpretation and the uncertainty principle.
  — Lee Phillips, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2018
• In a sense, merely looking at a quantum system unavoidably disturbs it, a manifestation of Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle.
  — Wired, 6 Oct. 2019
• Its title was inspired by German physicist Werner Heisenberg’s 1927 uncertainty principle, which says it’s impossible to precisely measure the velocity of a particle in motion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2022
• Bending the uncertainty principle has proven necessary as physicists probe subtler phenomena.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
• Inside Virgo, the uncertainty principle manifests as quantum noise, obscuring the gravitational wave signal.
  — WIRED, 9 Jan. 2023
• Observation, in this case, is a quantum mechanics phenomenon embodied by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022

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