Heisenberg indeterminacy principle

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• Heisenberg uncertainty principle — noun The principle that there is an absolute limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements, especially that of the position and momentum of a particle. Originally posited as a problem of measurement, it was …   Wiktionary

• Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle —    In quantum mechanics, this is a limit on the precision with which the simultaneous position and momentum of a body or particle can be specified. In other words, there is a limit as to how precisely you can determine the location of a particle …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

• indeterminacy principle — noun An alternative name for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Syn: uncertainty principle …   Wiktionary

• Indeterminacy Principle —    In quantum mechanics, this is a limit on the precision with which the simultaneous position and momentum of a body or particle can be specified. In other words, there is a limit as to how precisely you can determine the location of a particle …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

• Indeterminacy (philosophy) — Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of indeterminacy deriving from the nature of definition or meaning.[citation needed] It is… …   Wikipedia

• Heisenberg, Werner — ▪ German physicist and philosopher Introduction in full  Werner Karl Heisenberg  born Dec. 5, 1901, Würzburg, Ger. died Feb. 1, 1976, Munich, W.Ger.  German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics in… …   Universalium

• principle — /prin seuh peuhl/, n. 1. an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles. 2. a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of modern physics. 3. a fundamental… …   Universalium

• Heisenberg , Werner Karl — (1901–1976) German physicist Heisenberg, whose father was the professor of Greek at the University of Munich, was born in Würzburg, Germany. He was educated at the universities of Munich and Göttingen, where in 1923 he obtained his doctorate.… …   Scientists

• HEISENBERG, Werner — (1901 1976)    German physicist who developed the principle of indeterminacy and worked on the QUANTUM THEORY. His principle, known as the Heisenberg or Uncertainty Principle, says that at the sub atomic level one cannot know both the speed and… …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• uncertainty principle — Physics. the principle of quantum mechanics, formulated by Heisenberg, that the accurate measurement of one of two related, observable quantities, as position and momentum or energy and time, produces uncertainties in the measurement of the other …   Universalium

• Uncertainty principle — In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that locating a particle in a small region of space makes the momentum of the particle uncertain; and conversely, that measuring the momentum of a particle precisely makes the… …   Wikipedia