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5. Depends which Heisenberg limit you're talking about.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 05:12 PM
Sep 2012
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.100404

While the measurements by Rozema et al. leave untouched Heisenberg‘s principle regarding inherent quantum uncertainty, they expose the pitfalls of its application to measurements’ precision.


http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0034

While there is a rigorously proven relationship about uncertainties intrinsic to any quantum system, often referred to as "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle," Heisenberg originally formulated his ideas in terms of a relationship between the precision of a measurement and the disturbance it must create. Although this latter relationship is not rigorously proven, it is commonly believed (and taught) as an aspect of the broader uncertainty principle.

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