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Loading contentThe fundamental limit that a particle's position and momentum cannot both be known with arbitrary precision — a property of quantum nature itself, not of imperfect instruments. Together with the Pauli exclusion principle it sets the scale of the degeneracy pressure — the resistance of fermions such as electrons and neutrons to being crowded together — that holds up white dwarfs and neutron stars against gravity.
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