"If quantum mechanics is right, there is no way to get around the uncertainty principle. The reason that the electron’s probability wave spread so much after we confined it, Heisenberg would argue, is that its momentum became almost completely indeterminate. In a manner of speaking, it headed off in all directions."
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Jeremy Bernstein, Quantum Profiles (1991), John Stewart Bell: Quantum Engineer.
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