Epstein Secrets

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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