Werner Heisenberg

Quantum Physics and No Spirituality — Carlo Rovelli and Helgoland

Heisenberg introduced his famous relations in an article of 1927, entitled “Ueber den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik”. A (partial) translation of this title is: “On the anschaulich content of quantum theoretical kinematics and mechanics”. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is often misunderstood with The observer’s effect which states…

German physicist Werner Heisenberg was born on December 5, 1901. Max Planck and Einstein co-founded Quantum Theory, which was extensively worked on by Niels Bohr. But Bohr’s atomic model, built using quanta theory, has problems with the trajectory of electrons. Matrix mechanics was born in Heisenberg’s hands to get rid…

On Copenhagen Interpretation The Quantum Theory is a theory which manifests itself in the scale of the very small — we call this scale “The Plank Scale”. The Plank’s scale is defined by the Plank’s Constant, having a value of 6.62607015×10^(−34) Js (Jule-Seconds) and in equations, it’s symbolized by h…

So, why did Heisenberg Come to meet Bohr? To say that he could make the bomb? To say that he couldn’t? Or perhaps that he wouldn’t? To ask if Bohr was going to make the bomb? To ask if-perhaps-please- Bohr wouldn’t? Or maybe to say he could but wouldn’t If Bohr wouldn't And why did Bohr think Heisenberg came to Copenhagen? To say that he would make the bomb? To say that he wouldn’t? Or perhaps that he couldn’t? To ask if Bohr would help him make the bomb? Yes, perhaps to ask if the teacher Would please help the pupil Like in the old days

Quantum Physics and the Ancient Greeks In previous articles on the theme of quantum physics, I have made frequent reference to the enthusiasm of its pioneers for Plato, and his allegory of the cave with its shadows on a wall. Sir James Jeans, for example, used it as the epigram…