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"This is because to measure its position you have to disturb its momentum by hitting it with another particle and observing how the momentum of this second particle changes."

Actually that is not at all what the Uncertainty Principle says. It is simply that there are in principle, a priori limits to the simultaneous knowledge of two variables.

The measurement effect is distinct.

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