One of the most often quoted, yet least understood, tenets of physics is the uncertainty principle.

When scientists talk about uncertainty it's not an admission of ignorance but an expression of confidence: we can quantify exactly how well we don't know what we don't yet know.

This article is part of a series of essays written by Black physicists and co-published with Physics Today as part of #BlackInPhysics week 2022, an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and ...

Life, in all its many forms, is full of uncertainty. Materials often come with manufacturing imperfections. Gravity perturbations alter the orbits of unwitting spacecraft and satellites. In complex ...

Heisenberg used the Uncertainty Principle to explain how measurement would destroy that classic feature of quantum mechanics, the two-slit interference pattern (more on this below).

A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By reformulating Lamb’s classical model, they showed how atomic vibrations can ...

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 ...

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which states that the position and momentum of a particle can't simultaneously be known to precision, is more complicated than once thought, new research shows.