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PRINCIPLE OF COMPLEMENTARITY

Some observations can never be made simultaneously. For example, one cannot see an electron as a particle and a wave at the same time. Two different experimental situations are necessary, and they cannot be realized simultaneously. The principle was first formulated by Niels Bohr. (Lefebvre, 1983, p. xxv)


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