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Heisenberg. Pais and Treiman. Heisenberg
Date published: 2023-09-27
Date modified: 2023-09-27
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“The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a
world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”
Werner Heisenberg
Science is born of imagination. As little as we want to make this uncomfortable connection, it is there. When Heisenberg proposed the Uncertainty Principle, he did so from philosophy, from the depths of Max Planck's discovery, which overturned the science of the greatest monolith in physics, Sir Isaac Newton.
This was not his intention. Just as it was not Heisenberg's intention to create controversy in science. But science is not a bowling ball, something heavy and consistent that has a single function, that has a specific purpose.
No. Planck's science took him two years. He spent two years trying to prove his theory wrong.
Heisenberg's science almost cost him the respect of the world. Responsible for the Nazi atomic program, he did everything he could to delay it long enough for the Allies to win.
Heisenberg's uncertainty is a lesson in humility taught by a genius. And it says, more or less, that we will find exactly what we are looking for, while Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman's Standard Model is an ode to tamed, instrumental, and dead quantum mechanics.
In the physics of Heisenberg, Planck, and Bohr, we find about eight fundamental particles. Still in this wild and living physics, we infer about twelve more particles. And with them, we could create magical interrelationships with reality.
In the Standard Model, we have more than 200 particles. All different? No. Break twenty identical glasses and you get hundreds of different shards. But don't be fooled. They're all shards of glass.
The beauty of quantum mechanics lies in its paradoxes, in its unknown side that we can explore, in its unknowable side that we can only marvel at.
Let's go back to Heisenberg. Please...
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