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MAKE A MEME View Large Image $The laser photons diffract through the boundary between my fingers, moving farther away the closer together the fingers get. This is an illustration of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, trading off the known position of the photons ...$

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Keywords: black background In this picture, I'm literally squashing photons between my fingertips. The laser photons diffract through the boundary between my fingers, moving farther away the closer together the fingers get. This is an illustration of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, trading off the known position of the photons passing though the gap, with uncertainty about their momentum after leaving the gap. In this picture, I'm literally squashing photons between my fingertips. The laser photons diffract through the boundary between my fingers, moving farther away the closer together the fingers get. This is an illustration of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, trading off the known position of the photons passing though the gap, with uncertainty about their momentum after leaving the gap.