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What principle did Niels Bohr conceive that involves contradictory properties?

  • Complementarity

  • Uncertainty

  • Superposition

  • Entanglement

Answer

Niels Bohr conceived the principle of complementarity, which states that items can be separately analyzed in terms of contradictory properties, like behaving as a wave or a stream of particles. This notion dominated Bohr's thinking in both science and philosophy.
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