One of the most often quoted, yet least understood, tenets of physics is the uncertainty principle. Formulated by German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the rule states that the more precisely ...

Uncertainty affects the accuracy with which measurements can be made in quantum physics. To reduce this uncertainty, physicists have learned to "squeeze" certain measurements. Researchers are now ...

What is the meaning of Heisenberg’s analogy? (Courtesy: German Federal Archives) A row has broken out among physicists over an analogy used by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 to make sense of his famous ...

Today, we can measure the position of an object with unprecedented accuracy, but the uncertainty principle places fundamental limits on our ability to measure. Noise that results from of the quantum ...

Physicists may need to tweak what they think they know about Werner Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle. Measuring light particles doesn’t push them as far into the realm of quantum fuzziness as ...

Quantum particles are not really just particles…they are also waves. The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in ...

The continued development of the High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors (HTGRs) requires verification of HTGR design and safety features with reliable high fidelity physics models and robust, efficient, ...