Heisenberg states uncertainty principle
1927
Werner Heisenberg, working on a problem in the new quantum mechanics, showed that you cannot know both where a particle is and where it is going with perfect accuracy. The universe, at its smallest scales, was genuinely fuzzy. Einstein hated it. Most physicists, eventually, did not. Classical certainty was gone for good.
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