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Re:Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by jeremysalwen on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:37PM (#14020444)
A tradition started by Heisenberg himself!
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Re:Atomic Spins Evade Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle by Xcelerate on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:56AM (#14022384)
That's what's funny about the whole thing; Heisenberg mistakenly thought his own equation was due to the observer effect.

There's a good article on him almost failing his PhD exam because he had difficulty with a related concept (https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.c...). It's amusing because he was later awarded the Nobel prize for "the creation of quantum mechanics".

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