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

d 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. W. Bridgman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Sir Arthur Eddington, William Empson, C. G. Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Butler Yeats

, 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

op. cit., p. 19. AceThere arc no . . . ill-defined and ambiguous" A A a Brillouin, op. cit., p. 52. ficeThe model need . .. we observe it" A A 25. Max Born, Experiment and Theory in Physics (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1956), p. 39. ficeA physical quantity . . and measure it.fi A A 26. Jeans, o

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

waited for the sun to rise. Heisenberg, fresh from obtaining his PhD, had moved to the distin- guished German university in Gottingen to work with Max Born to try to come up with a consistent theory of quantum mechanics (a term first used in the paper "On Quantum Mechanics" by Born in 1924). However,

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

A Universe Stranger than Fiction 87 As I have noted, in quantum mechanics particles have a wavelike character. Thanks to Max Born we recognize that the square of the am- plitude of the wave associated with a particle at any point—what we now call the wave function of the partic