Epstein Secrets

Luhan, Stewart Brand, Heinz von Foerster, Edward T. Hall, Alfred North Whitehead, W. Grey Walter, Kenneth Sayre, Rene Descartes, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Niels Bohr, Rene Dubos, D. and K. Stanley-Jones, John Lucas, Carlos Castenedas, SA¶ren Kierkegaard, Wilder Penfield, R. G. Bickford, Edmund Carpenter, Werner

ls Bohr, Rene Dubos, D. and K. Stanley-Jones, John Lucas, Carlos Castenedas, SA¶ren Kierkegaard, Wilder Penfield, R. G. Bickford, Edmund Carpenter, Werner Heisenberg, Sir James Jeans, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wallace Stevens, Leon Brillouin, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Gertrude Stein, Max Born, J. Andrade e Silva, P

, Language, Thought, and Reality (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1956), p. 252. o'cean unfortunate word . . . characterized by patteming.A A A 19. Niels Bohr, Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (New York: Science Editions, Inc., 1961), p. 76. accOnly by renouncing . . . account its characteristics.' EFTA

Young, op. cit., p. 19. acea sense in . . . and his products.ii A AL4_, Whorf, op. cit., p. 239. ikeit may even . . . now call a`mental.aTMa AA 65. Werner Heisenberg, Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science (New York: Fawcett World Library, I966), p. 106. aceWhen we talk . . . by their application.a Part H AAA

rns at every step. The story of the development of quan- tum mechanics is full of them. But I want to cut to the chase here, and so I will skip over Niels Bohr, whose ideas laid out the first fundamental atomic rules of the quantum world as well as the basis for much of modern chemis- try. We'll also skip E

n a trek through a new landscape may seemed strained, but exactly such a relationship between the two was paralleled in the life of none other than Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, who once reminisced about an evening in the summer of 1926 on the island of Helgoland, a lovely oasis in

York City, where he accepted a position at Columbia. When Fermi learned the news about nuclear fission in 1939 in New York, following a lecture by Niels Bohr at Princeton, Fermi amended his earlier Nobel acceptance speech to clarify his earlier error and in short order re- 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atindd

change of par- ticles, then it was reasonable to think that the force that held together the nucleus might also be due to the exchange of particles. Werner Heisenberg proposed this idea in 1932 around the time the neutron was discovered. If neutrons and protons could convert into each other, with the proton ab- s