In a different post, I mentioned that people have an unfortunate tendency to take a superficial aspect of some scientific fact and run off with it. It's odd to have scientists doing this, but I suppose it happens.

The Uncertainty Principle applies to atomic particles. Period. To greatly oversimplify, it's mostly because there's no way to analyze an atomic particle except by hitting it with something, or making it hit something else. By that time, of course, you've changed it.

It is a huge mistake to try and project the facts of subatomic physics into the greater world. From an atomic standpoint, almost all of a brick is empty space, yet I wouldn't want one to drop on my head.

Most real world items, i.e. anything large enough to reflect ambient light, or generate light of its own, can have both location and velocity easily observed and nailed down to many decimal places without affecting the object itself in any way. The Moon's mass and orbit have been observed from Earth for many decades, and yet, there it is.