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Does the uncertainty principle tell us that we can never know anything for certain?
17 years ago

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drwls
No. We can know things like the energy of the ground state of hydrogen, or the charge of an electron, or the number of hydrogen atoms in water, how many Beatles there were. The uncertainty principle applies to simultananeous measurements of certain physical quantities.
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