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by mattkrause 2353 days ago
The position/momentum pair is just one (important) case of a more generalized Uncertainty Principle. There's a similar one, due to Gabor (1946), which says that you can't have perfect time-limited and band-limited information, which is presumably what the OP is referring to.

The underlying math is the same, and there's a principle of complementarity that describes other pairs of quantities that need to be traded against one another.