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s modulus, and helped first elucidate the physiology of color vision. And his brave demonstration of the wave nature of light (which argued against Isaac Newton's powerful claim 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atirdd 73 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00285995 74 THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD-SO FAR that light was made of

, he polished off his ideas about the quantum behavior of atoms and sent it off to Born, who submitted it for publication. You may be familiar with Heisenberg's name, not least because of the 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atirdd B4 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00286006 A Universe Stranger than fiction 85 famous

t least three children with various mistresses, and whose wave equation is the most famous icon of quantum mechanics. Instead I will focus first on Heisenberg, or rather not Heisenberg himself, but instead the result that made his name famous: the Heisen- berg uncertainty principle. This is often interpret

ology it is generally accepted that science is =ever about truth so much as it is about who has the resources to =nforce certain perspectives. Since Isaac Newton first served as the =xchequer of England modern physics has been closely allied with money, =nd the reason for this has to do with a desire for con

erministic control over the future, and that, of =ourse, was perceived to be very good news. If the radical developments =shered in by Einstein and Heisenberg in the twentieth century =hallenged this dream of control on one level—with our limited =erspectives there is only so much we were capable of unders

these photons is governed by the observer — me! The laws governing light, and most of the strange and wonderful effects it has, were first stated by Isaac Newton. Newton was an extraordinary man. He discovered many of the physical principles we use today, and his view of the Universe reigned unchallenged until

but it does not.) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016007 318 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? Uncertainty If youknow alittle of quantum mechanics you might imagine Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle comes to our rescue. Heisenberg’s principle is often misunderstood. People sometimes try to explain it as an experimental pr