The Software Uncertainty Principle
Werner von Heisenberg, one of the first quantum mechanics, developed his Uncertainty Principle to express the impossibility of describing both the position and the momentum of an electron in its orbit simultaneously. He said, “The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.” In layman's terms, Heisenberg's principle means that the act of observing something changes that thing in unpredictable ways. This is because the only way I can know where an electron is, is to bump into it. That disturbs the system and fixes things so I can't know the exact position and momentum of a particle for sure at the same time.
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