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t least three children with various mistresses, and whose wave equation is the most famous icon of quantum mechanics. Instead I will focus first on Heisenberg, or rather not Heisenberg himself, but instead the result that made his name famous: the Heisen- berg uncertainty principle. This is often interpret

but in this case it is the momentum of the particle that is related to the frequency of the probability wave associated with the particle. Hence, Heisenberg's uncertainty relation: If we want to localize a particle over a small region, i.e., have the width of the highest peak in its wave function as nar

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but it does not.) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016007 318 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Uncertainty If youknow alittle of quantum mechanics you might imagine Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle comes to our rescue. Heisenberg’s principle is often misunderstood. People sometimes try to explain it as an experimental pr