Heisenberg showed that narrowing position uncertainty forces momentum uncertainty to grow. It is not measurement error — it is wave nature.
Explore interactively
Open equation pageΔxΔp ≥ ℏ/2 — why you cannot simultaneously know position and momentum with arbitrary precision.
8 min read · 2026-06-11
Heisenberg showed that narrowing position uncertainty forces momentum uncertainty to grow. It is not measurement error — it is wave nature.
Explore interactively
Open equation page