In day to day life, we intuitively understand how the world works. Drop a glass and it will smash to the floor. Push a wagon and it will roll along. Walk to a wall and you can't walk through it.
Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World War I, when he had to leave school to help harvest crops in Bavaria. Back in Munich after the war, he volunteered as a messenger for ...
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that we cannot know both the position and the momentum of a particle at once Imagine driving a car fitted with a GPS navigation system that glitches ...
The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Exactly one hundred years ago, physicist Werner Heisenberg proposed the first rigorous formulation of ...
Werner Heisenberg's trip to Heligoland in June 1925 is a legend. Plagued by hay fever, the 23-year old escaped to the pollen-free island in the North Sea, to return with deep insight that would ...
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The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the MakingWhy build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to ...
Quantum mechanics is the best tool we have to understand how the universe works on its smallest scales. Everything we can see around us, from far-off galaxies to our own bodies, is made up of ...
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