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Because it is part of the theory of quantum mechanics itself. It is not just an empirical fact, it is a prediction of the theory itself.

Similar behavior shows up in Fourier Transforms [1]. When an audio sample is converted into frequency-space, it shows similar "narrowing/widening" relationship with the original audio sample. This again isn't a limitation of measurement, its just the relationship between the two bases

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform



Not just similar, position and momentum are Fourier transforms of each other in QM (but that's in the article).




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