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It says that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object and shows up as a metaphor in everything from literary criticism to sports commentary.
Uncertainty is often explained as a result of measurement, that the act of measuring an object's position changes its speed, or vice versa.
In quantum mechanics, the exact position and exact speed of an object have no meaning.
We can represent this by a graph showing the probability of finding the object at a particular place, which looks like a spike, 100% at one specific position, and zero everywhere else.
But we can't assign it a single position.
So, if we have a pure wave, we can measure its wavelength, and thus its momentum, but it has no position.
We can know a particles position very well, but it doesn't have a wavelength, so we don't know its momentum.
To get a particle with both position and momentum, we need to mix the two pictures to make a graph that has waves, but only in a small area.
That's a quantum object with both wave and particle nature, but to accomplish this, we had to lose certainty about both position and momentum.
Both position and momentum are now uncertain, and the uncertainties are connected.
If you want to reduce the position uncertainty by making a smaller wave packet, you need to add more waves, which means a bigger momentum uncertainty.
If you want to know the momentum better, you need a bigger wave packet, which means a bigger position uncertainty.
Here's an even bigger jump: mathematical knot theory, first developed around 1771 to describe the geometry of position, was used in the late 20th century to explain how DNA unravels itself during the replication process.
It can be predicted even before birth based on the fetus' position in the womb.
As it overtakes sound waves it has emitted, while generating new ones from its current position, the waves are forced together, forming a Mach cone.
A common way of sitting is with a curved back and slumped shoulders, a position that puts uneven pressure on your spine.
Over time, this causes wear and tear in your spinal discs, overworks certain ligaments and joints, and puts strain on muscles that stretch to accommodate your back's curved position.
These stresses can be things like carrying weight, or sitting in an awkward position.
Sitting in an awkward position for a long time can promote poor posture, and so can using computers or mobile devices, which encourage you to look downward.
But the way that science works, the position I was in at that point is, I had the data, and I could have worked in a silo for many, many months, analyzed the data carefully, slowly, submitted the paper for publication, gone through a few back-and-forths, and then finally when the paper came out, might release that data.
Lot of other things contributed to it, but the new Prime Minister announced that his very first priority would be to change Australia's position on Kyoto, and he has.
Rightfully or not, our societal position gives our voices great credibility, and we shouldn't waste that.
It's thought that this keeps these molecules locked in position to stop them from unfolding, breaking apart, or fusing together.
Upon her return to Warsaw, though, she found that securing an academic position as a woman remained a challenge.
Marie, devastated, immersed herself in her research and took over Pierre's teaching position at the Sorbonne, becoming the school's first female professor.
But what if your job happens to be the most powerful position in the country, or the world?
I would choose whether to leverage Christopher into a plea deal or take the case to trial, and ultimately, I would be in a position to ask for Christopher to go to jail.
Instead, I worked with Christopher; first on being accountable for his actions, and then, putting him in a position where he wouldn't re-offend.
So he took really long to reach this position, and then all this while, I'm thinking, "Oh my God, is he really going to do it?
And the more I thought of it, the more I realized it was clearly not the digital information that was the bad guy here, it was simply the display position that was separating me from my friend and that was binding those kids together.
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