WERNER KARL
HEISENBERG
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Physics and Philosophy: The
Revolution in Modern Science.
". . . Bohr used to say . . .
'We may hope that it will later turn out
that sometimes 2x2=5, for this would be of great advantage for
our finances.'"1a
"Since the time of Galileo the
fundamental method of natural science has been the experiment.
This method made it possible to pass from general experience to
specific experience, to single out characteristic events in nature
from which its 'laws'
could be studied more directly than from general experience."1b
"Actually the experiments have shown the
complete mutability of matter. All the elementary particles
can, at sufficiently high energies, be transmuted into other
particles, or they can simply be created from kinetic energy and
can be annihilated into energy . . . Therefore, we have here
actually the final proof for the unity of matter. All the
elementary particles are made of the same substance, which
we may call energy or universal matter; they are just
different forms in which matter can appear.
If we compare this
situation with the Aristotelian concepts of matter and form,
we can say that the matter of Aristotle, which is mere
"potentia,"should be compared to our concept of energy,
which gets into "actuality" by means of the form, when the elementary
particle is created."1c
". . . [I]n
quantum theory the uncertainty relations put a
definite limit on the accuracy with which positions and momenta,
or time and energy, can be measured simultaneously . . .
any theory which tries to fulfill the requirements of both
special relativity and quantum theory will lead to
mathematical inconsistencies, to divergencies in the
region of very high energies and momenta."1d
". . .
[S]cientific
ideas will spread only because they are true." 1e
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Interesting Link
Werner Karl Heisenberg, Germany.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932,
"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of
which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic
forms of hydrogen."
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Italics in the original.
1
Werner
Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976).
Physics and
Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science.
With an Introduction by F.S.C. Northrop. Werner Heisenberg, 1958.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999. (Originally published: New
York: Harper & Row, 1958.)
a VIII. Criticism and Counterproposals to
the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, at 132.
b
IX. Quantum Theory and the Structure of Matter,
at 149.
c
Ibid., at 160.
d
Ibid.,
at 162.
e
The Role of Modern Physics in the Present
Development of Human Thinking, at 194.
MK-BOOKS-HEISENBERG-20050213.
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