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=== Rejection of the principle === Uncertainty principles relate quantum particles β electrons for example β to classical concepts β position and momentum. This presumes quantum particles have position and momentum. [[Edwin C. Kemble]] pointed out<ref>{{cite book |last=Kemble |first=E. C. |year=1937 |title=The Fundamental Principles of Quantum Mechanics |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill, reprinted by Dover |page=244}}</ref>{{clarify inline|reason=What printing/edition does this page number refer to? Use year for that, and orig-year for original publication date|date=December 2024}} in 1937 that such properties cannot be experimentally verified and assuming they exist gives rise to many contradictions; similarly [[Rudolf Haag]] notes that position in quantum mechanics is an attribute of an interaction, say between an electron and a detector, not an intrinsic property.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haag |first=R. |year=1996 |title=Local Quantum Physics: Fields, Particles, Algebras |location=Berlin |publisher=Springer}}{{page?|date=February 2024}}{{ISBN?}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Peres |first1=Asher |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.76.93 |title=Quantum information and relativity theory |last2=Terno |first2=Daniel R. |journal=Reviews of Modern Physics |date=2004-01-06 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=93β123 [111] |language=en |doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.76.93 |arxiv=quant-ph/0212023 |bibcode=2004RvMP...76...93P |s2cid=7481797 |issn=0034-6861 |access-date=2024-01-25 |archive-date=2024-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223160147/https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.76.93 |url-status=live }}</ref> From this point of view the uncertainty principle is not a fundamental quantum property but a concept "carried over from the language of our ancestors", as Kemble says.
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