comics.scottk.net - Uncertainty

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The quantum mechanics Uncertainty Principle describes how for sub-atomic particles the higher the certainty of the velocity or position the greater the uncertainty of the other. This ant colony under constant attack by an anteater has a leader that does not understand the difference in scale.

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