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You cannot f'in bitch slap the uncertainty principle!

The other day, I was reading an article in a web magazine. The article was about a novel method used by a team of scientists to invent a highly sensitive magnetic field sensor.

"...you can bitch slap the uncertainty principle" is what the author, who was only writing for the website (and isn't anyway involved with the team), said at one point, which I felt was so ignorant!

Although some web magazines, like this one, feature nice stories of up and coming technology; at times they go into specifics of the subject, like a big company's business idea behind its actions and so on which can be quite interesting, I usually skip any science articles that appear in such popular online 'technical journals'.

The problem is that these writers (or may be editors) in order to sound more tasteful, invariably go over the top to highlight something extraordinary, or to make something appear so. While this trick works alright when you are predicting features that are to be added in the next version of a mobile platform, science is different. Trying it on science articles makes them sound fictional and often stupid. Obviously, these are meant to be for general readers who have little or no knowledge of the likes of modern physics (myself included); it is irresponsible of the writers to cite wrong principles. You cannot talk about a something as fundamental as the uncertainty principle and then say that it can be gotten rid of.

I am sure that those scientists used smart techniques and trade offs to work around the limitations, they had no way to 'bitch slap' the uncertainty principle.