The uncertainty principle states that we cannot know both the position and momentum of an atom simultaneously from "summary" of Atoms Under the Floorboards by Chris Woodford
The idea that we can never know both the position and momentum of an atom at the same time is one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. This principle, known as the uncertainty principle, was first proposed by the great physicist Werner Heisenberg in the 1920s. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle essentially tells us that the more precisely we know the position of an atom, the less precisely we can know its momentum, and vice versa. This might sound a bit counterintuitive at first, but it has profound implications for our understanding of the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles. In everyday life...
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