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It's not supposed to make sense... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sorta! According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, there's an upper limit to how much we can "know" about the given state of a quantum system. This isn't an issue with our measurements, but a fundamental property of the universe itself. By measuring one aspect of a quantum system (for example, the momentum of a particle), we become less certain about other aspects of the system, even if we had already measured them before (such as the position of the same particle).

Though (as far as we know), we aren't going to run out of quantum states or anything like that.

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