There is a limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known.

Evidence

Uncertainty principle (Wikipedia)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: Life is full of unfathomable mysteries that elude understanding. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 374; Position and velocity are Fourier transform pairs, hence obey an uncertainty principle