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:Line: a length without breadth or thickness
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::Length: linear extent in space
The [[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle|Heisenberg uncertainty principle]] for a particle does not allow a state in which the particle is simultaneously at a definite location and has also a definite momentum. Instead the particle has a range of momentum and spread in location attributable to quantum fluctuations.
:::Linear: along a line↑
:::Extent: a range of locations
::::Location: point or extent↑ in space
:::Space: unlimited expanse in which everything is located↑


:Line: the trace of a moving point
An uncertainty principle applies to most of quantum mechanical operators that do not commute (specifically, to every pair of operators whose commutator is a non-zero scalar operator).
::Trace: a visible mark left by the passage
::Move: change location↑
::Point: a geometric element that has position but no extension↑
:::Position: portion of space↑ occupied
::::Portion: part
:::::Part: portion↑
::::Occupy: fill
:::::Fill: occupy↑

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The Heisenberg uncertainty principle for a particle does not allow a state in which the particle is simultaneously at a definite location and has also a definite momentum. Instead the particle has a range of momentum and spread in location attributable to quantum fluctuations.

An uncertainty principle applies to most of quantum mechanical operators that do not commute (specifically, to every pair of operators whose commutator is a non-zero scalar operator).