Heisenberg's gamma-ray microscope for locating an electron (shown in blue). The incoming gamma ray (shown in green) is scattered by the electron up into the microscope's aperture angle ?. The scattered gamma-ray is shown in red. Classical optics shows that the electron position can be resolved only up to an uncertainty ?x that depends on ? and the wavelength ? of the incoming light.
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