Warning: This primer may induce existential dread and spontaneous combustion in sensitive viewers.
Or maybe not.
The Quantum Uncertainty Principle states that certain properties of a quantum system, like position and momentum, cannot be simultaneously measured or known with absolute precision. It's not a principle of uncertainty, per se, but rather a reminder that you're probably just making it up.
Because, according to our esteemed physicist overlords, the universe is secretly a simulation of cat videos, and if you can't even know where the cat is, you can't even.
Read Heisenberg's Lamentations for a more... uncertain look at the matter.
We're not even talking about Schrödinger's cat, who's just a cat with an existential crisis. No, we're talking about the real deal, folks! The cat that's just as uncertain about its own existence as you are.
Dive deeper into the rabbit hole of uncertainty with our comprehensive guide to Quantum Uncertainty Primer 2.0.