Word: heisenberg
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...wine, women and song; Göttingen's famous for wine, women and nuclear physics," says an American student at Germany's most notably nuclear university. Before Hitler, George August University in Goötingen harbored some of the world's great nuclear names-Born. Hahn, Heisenberg-and hatched a Who's Who of U.S. science -Fermi, Compton, Teller, Oppenheimer. After the war, as one of Germany's few relatively unbombed universities, Göttingen got quickly to work restoring its reputation, but its greatest days probably lie ahead. Last week surveyors slogged through spring...
...those schöne jahren (beautiful years), brilliant minds and crackling chalk-talks lured young scholars like Werner Heisenberg. a future Nobelman who wandered about in lederhosen, and Italy's Enrico Fermi, future U.S. father of the Abomb. U.S. Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, winner last week of the AEC's Fermi Award (see PEOPLE), got his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1927. Another Göttingen recruit: Hungary's Edward Teller, future U.S. father of the H-bomb...
...Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle...
...most laymen, Physicist Werner Heisenberg's formula denning uncertainty is as incomprehensible as an income tax instruction sheet. But to Managing Editor Alfred Friendly of the Washington Post, it's as simple as π. What it means, Friendly explained in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is that "the very act of observing or probing a phenomenon changes the phenomenon." Heisenberg developed his principle while studying electrons-tiny particles with properties that change even as they are being measured. Friendly applied the principle to the coverage of some important events by reporters in "battalion...
...subsequent essays built around causality and determinism in modern physics should be all means be read, if for no other reason than to form some impression of the quicksilver state of physics with regard to these concepts. Wave-particle duality and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle are still hard to get used to, but there has for several decades already been a flux of speculation about their meaning. Ernest Cassirer, David Bohm, and Erwin Schrodinger are writing in a realm where...