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Comment by drdeca

4 hours ago

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that in no state is the product of the standard deviations of what would be measured if you measured position, and what would be measured if you measured momentum, less than hbar or hbar/2 or something like that (I forget the exact constant. It is on the order of hbar.).

As such, if the position uncertainty isn't infinite, the momentum uncertainty is nonzero.