Can two teams measure position and momentum simultaneously?

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Is it somehow possible to know both noncommutating properities of eg. a partcle, with using two indicators? Eg. two teams, with one is studing the momentum, and other one the position - then it's somehow impossible to exchange informations?
 
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No. The principle is about the actual state of the system, not our knowledge of the state.
 
Orodruin said:
No. The principle is about the actual state of the system, not our knowledge of the state.
Oh right, i did'n get it for the first time reading about it.
 
Thomas Gajdek said:
Is it somehow possible to know both noncommutating properities of eg. a partcle, with using two indicators? Eg. two teams, with one is studing the momentum, and other one the position - then it's somehow impossible to exchange informations?

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is, in fact, a statistical law and concerns the variance in measurements of a large number of identically prepared systems.

It doesn't, in fact, say anything about individual measurements of a system, as in your example.