Podcasts about Werner Heisenberg

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still a student, effectively created quantum mechanics for which he later won the Nobel Prize. Werner Heisenberg made this breakthrough in a paper in 1925 when, rather than starting with an idea of where atomic particles were at any one time, he worked backwards from what he observed of atoms and their particles and the light they emitted, doing away with the idea of their continuous orbit of the nucleus and replacing this with equations. This was momentous and from this flowed what's known as his Uncertainty Principle, the idea that, for example, you can accurately measure the position of an atomic particle or its momentum, but not both. With Fay Dowker Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London Harry Cliff Research Fellow in Particle Physics at the University of Cambridge And Frank Close Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics and Fellow Emeritus at Exeter College at the University of Oxford Producer: Simon Tillotson Reading list: Philip Ball, Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Vintage, 2018) John Bell, ‘Against 'measurement'' (Physics World, Vol 3, No 8, 1990) Mara Beller, Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2001) David C. Cassidy, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, And The Bomb (Bellevue Literary Press, 2010) Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy (first published 1958; Penguin Classics, 2000) Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics (Penguin, 2022) Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Melvyn Bragg and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

00:00:26 Welcome back to Social Skills Coaching with Patrick King.00:02:26 Thinking About Thinking00:11:42 The Problem of the Runaway Trolley00:16:16 The Zombie Cat00:20:15 Physics First00:25:27 TakeawaysLearn To Think Using Thought Experiments: How to Expand Your Mental Horizons, Understand Metacognition, Improve Your Curiosity, and Think Like a Philosopher (Clear Thinking and Fast Action Book 5) By Patrick KingHear it Here - https://bit.ly/ThoughtExpKingThe Zombie Cat, The Runaway Trolley, and Einstein's Elevator: How to Master Your Mind with Thought ExperimentsWelcome to a journey into the deepest corners of your mind, inspired by the groundbreaking book, "Learn to Think Using Thought Experiments: How to Expand Your Mental Horizons, Understand Metacognition, Improve Your Curiosity, and Think Like a Philosopher." In this video, we're going to explore the incredible power of gedankenexperiments, or thought experiments, and how they can fundamentally change the way you think.Do you want to unlock your creativity, sharpen your critical thinking skills, and foster a deeper sense of curiosity? Thought experiments are powerful mental tools used by the greatest minds in history, from Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton to Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr. They are mental simulations designed to explore the implications and consequences of a hypothesis without a real-world setup. They force you to confront your assumptions and challenge your preconceived notions. It's the ultimate exercise in problem solving.Think about Isaac Newton's cannon: he imagined a cannonball fired from a mountain to understand orbital mechanics. This simple hypothetical laid the groundwork for our understanding of gravity. Or consider Schrödinger's cat, the "zombie cat" paradox proposed by Erwin Schrödinger. He used this bizarre scenario not to suggest a cat could be both alive and dead, but to highlight the strange interpretation of quantum mechanics. It's a brilliant example of using an outlandish idea to provoke deeper inquiry.The most famous moral dilemma of all is the trolley problem. You see a runaway trolley speeding toward five people. You can pull a lever to divert it, killing only one person. This scenario has no easy answer; it's designed to make you examine your own ethical frameworks and understand concepts of responsibility.The book "Learn to Think Using Thought Experiments" by Patrick King is a comprehensive guide to mastering this invaluable skill. It's a practical guide to using these mental tools for your own cognitive development and intellectual growth. You'll learn how to create your own thought experiments and use them to improve everything from your career to your personal relationships. Imagine using a thought experiment to test a new business idea or to make a difficult life decision. The book equips you with the tools for these mental simulations.The book delves into a wide range of thought experiments, from those of physicists like Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr to philosophical puzzles that challenge our understanding of consciousness and free will. It even touches on concepts from other fields, such as the famous Geiger counter, used in a way to illustrate randomness and probability.This isn't about memorizing facts; it's about cultivating metacognition—the ability to think about your own thinking. By using thought experiments, you learn to question everything, explore every possibility, and think like a philosopher. You'll move beyond simple facts and into the realm of deeper understanding, honing your imagination and learning to see the world not just as it is, but as it could be.If you're ready to expand your mental horizons, improve your problem-solving skills, and ignite your...

Hoy, 29 de julio de 2025, se cumplen precisamente cien años de la publicación de un artículo científico que cambiaría la física para siempre. Los físicos sabían desde el año 1900 que algo extraño ocurría en el mundo microscópico: Planck descubrió, a su pesar, que la energía parecía emitirse de forma discontinua, en paquetes o "cuantos". Einstein, por su parte, se dio cuenta de que gracias a estos cuantos se podía entender el efecto fotoeléctrico. Bohr reveló que si la energía estaba "cuantizada" el átomo debía tener niveles, o "pisos", en los cuales había que ubicar a los electrones. En definitiva, se sabía desde el año 1900 que la física tenía que ser cuántica. Sin embargo, a pesar de tener muy claro que los cuantos formaban parte de la física, o al menos de la física microscópica, nadie había conseguido integrarlos en una teoría física totalmente consistente. Todos los modelos cuánticos partían de la física "de toda la vida" y se imponían los cuantos sobre ella de forma arbitraria, en el lugar y el momento en que resolvieran tal o cual problema. Esto cambió el 29 de julio del año 1925. Un joven físico llamado Werner Heisenberg abordó la cuestión de si era posible construir un modelo mecánico que fuese cuántico desde el minuto 1. Para ello necesitaba una definición de las magnitudes físicas fundamentales, como la posición y la velocidad, que tuviera integrados los cuantos. No valía imponerlos después para que los resultados cuadrasen. La posición y la velocidad también tenían que ser cuánticas. ¿Cómo conseguiría deshacer este nudo gordiano? En el programa de hoy conmemoramos el centenario de la mecánica cuántica contándoos esta historia. ¿Qué son los cuantos? ¿Por qué era problemático integrarlos dentro de la física? ¿Y cómo lo logró Heisenberg en su legendario artículo de 1925? En este programa os hablaremos mucho de la historia de la teoría cuántica. Si queréis ampliar lo que os contamos hoy, podéis aprender sobre la teoría de Einstein del efecto fotoeléctrico, de 1905, en el episodio s04e05 de Aparici en Órbita. También podéis aprender más sobre la teoría atómica de Bohr, de 1913, en nuestro pódcast hermano, La Brújula de la Ciencia: os la contamos en detalle en los capítulos s02e31, s02e32 y s02e33. Si queréis aprender sobre el trabajo más famoso de Heisenberg, el Principio de Indeterminación, lo podéis encontrar en el capítulo s10e22 de La Brújula de la Ciencia. Y si queréis aprender sobre aspectos más generales de la teoría, os recomiendo algunos capítulos introductorios que tenéis en La Brújula de la Ciencia: son el s11e47, s01e09, s01e29, s05e01 y s07e40. En Aparici en Órbita también tenemos algún episodio más general: buscad el s02e15 y el s05e03. Este programa se emitió originalmente el 29 de julio de 2025. Podéis escuchar el resto de audios de Más de Uno en la app de Onda Cero y en su web, ondacero.es

Der damals noch junge Physiker Werner Heisen¬berg hat vor 100 Jahren seinen Artikel über die Quantenmechanik bei der „Zeitschrift für Physik“ eingereicht. Worin bestand der Durchbruch und was bedeuten Heisenbergs Formeln für die heutige Physik? Christine Langer im Gespräch mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Frank Grotelüschen

Hoy el mundo de la física está de fiesta debido al cumpleaños de la física cuántica. Un 29 de julio de 1925, hace hoy justo 100 años, Werner Heisenberg publicaba el artículo científico que se considera el inaugurador de esta noticia. Aparici aprovecha este aniversario para explicarnos qué es un cuanto en la física, porque funcionan a saltos y como Heisenberg pudo comprenderlos. 

Hoy el mundo de la física está de fiesta debido al cumpleaños de la física cuántica. Un 29 de julio de 1925, hace hoy justo 100 años, Werner Heisenberg publicaba el artículo científico que se considera el inaugurador de esta noticia. Aparici aprovecha este aniversario para explicarnos qué es un cuanto en la física, porque funcionan a saltos y como Heisenberg pudo comprenderlos. 

Vor 100 Jahren hat Werner Heisenberg die Idee der Quantenmechanik geschaffen und die Physik damit nachhaltig verändert. Ohne seine Ideen wären weder das Smartphone noch die Atombombe möglich gewesen. Doch noch immer verstehen wir die Welt der Quanten nur in Ansätzen. (00:02:20) Die Welt der Physik Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts (00:04:28) Wie kann man sich die Wissenschaftsbubble damals vorstellen? (00:06:35) Worum geht´s in Heisenbergs berühmtesten Paper? (00:09:16) Die Erzählweisen der Entstehung seiner Forschungsarbeit (00:11:44) Es gab große Namen mit ähnlichen Ideen – inwiefern? (00:14:49) Heisenbergs Paper gilt als Fundament der Physik – wie das? (00:18:10) Es gab auch kritische Stimmen wie Erwin Schrödinger (00:22:17) Wie ging es nach Heisenbergs Paper weiter? (00:25:12) Was kann man in Göttingen lernen? (00:28:30) Aktuell größten Herausforderungen der Quantenphysik? Hier entlang geht's zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/spektrum-der-wissenschaft >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wissen/spektrum-podcast-heisenberg-quantenmechanik

Vor 100 Jahren hat Werner Heisenberg die Idee der Quantenmechanik geschaffen und die Physik damit nachhaltig verändert. Ohne seine Ideen wären weder das Smartphone noch die Atombombe möglich gewesen. Doch noch immer verstehen wir die Welt der Quanten nur in Ansätzen. (00:02:20) Die Welt der Physik Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts (00:04:28) Wie kann man sich die Wissenschaftsbubble damals vorstellen? (00:06:35) Worum geht´s in Heisenbergs berühmtesten Paper? (00:09:16) Die Erzählweisen der Entstehung seiner Forschungsarbeit (00:11:44) Es gab große Namen mit ähnlichen Ideen – inwiefern? (00:14:49) Heisenbergs Paper gilt als Fundament der Physik – wie das? (00:18:10) Es gab auch kritische Stimmen wie Erwin Schrödinger (00:22:17) Wie ging es nach Heisenbergs Paper weiter? (00:25:12) Was kann man in Göttingen lernen? (00:28:30) Aktuell größten Herausforderungen der Quantenphysik? Hier entlang geht's zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/spektrum-der-wissenschaft >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wissen/spektrum-podcast-heisenberg-quantenmechanik

Vor 100 Jahren hat Werner Heisenberg die Idee der Quantenmechanik geschaffen und die Physik damit nachhaltig verändert. Ohne seine Ideen wären weder das Smartphone noch die Atombombe möglich gewesen. Doch noch immer verstehen wir die Welt der Quanten nur in Ansätzen. (00:02:20) Die Welt der Physik Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts (00:04:28) Wie kann man sich die Wissenschaftsbubble damals vorstellen? (00:06:35) Worum geht´s in Heisenbergs berühmtesten Paper? (00:09:16) Die Erzählweisen der Entstehung seiner Forschungsarbeit (00:11:44) Es gab große Namen mit ähnlichen Ideen – inwiefern? (00:14:49) Heisenbergs Paper gilt als Fundament der Physik – wie das? (00:18:10) Es gab auch kritische Stimmen wie Erwin Schrödinger (00:22:17) Wie ging es nach Heisenbergs Paper weiter? (00:25:12) Was kann man in Göttingen lernen? (00:28:30) Aktuell größten Herausforderungen der Quantenphysik? Hier entlang geht's zu den Links unserer Werbepartner: https://detektor.fm/werbepartner/spektrum-der-wissenschaft >> Artikel zum Nachlesen: https://detektor.fm/wissen/spektrum-podcast-heisenberg-quantenmechanik

According to legend, physicist Werner Heisenberg formulated the mathematics behind quantum mechanics in 1925 while on a restorative trip to the remote North Sea island of Heligoland.To celebrate the centenary of this event, several hundred researchers have descended on the island to take part in a conference on all things quantum physics. Nature reporter Lizzie Gibney was also in attendance, and joined us to give an inside track on the meeting.News: Happy birthday quantum mechanics! I got a ticket to the ultimate physics party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sie brachten 1925 ein wenig Ordnung in die chaotische Welt der Quanten – allen voran Werner Heisenberg. Ausserdem: Wo steht der Hype um Taurin als Wundermittel gegen das Altern heute? Und: Wir schauen nochmals genau hin, was kam im Lötschental runter, was liegt nun da und was bedeutet das jetzt? (00:00) Schlagzeilen (00:45) Die Geburtsstunde der Quantenmechanik: Vor 100 Jahren brachte der 23-jährige Werner Heisenberg die Quantenmechanik auf der Insel Helgoland aufs Papier. Dorthin war er vor den Pollen gelüchtet. Er lüftet Nase und andere Schleimhäute und offenbar auch seinen Kopf. (07:22) Meldungen: Das ungewisse Schicksal der Wissenschaft in den USA; der Schutz der Nashörner in Südafrika (12:36) Gehyptes Taurin: Vor zwei Jahren wurde Taurin in der Fachzeitschrift Science als Wundermolekül gehypt: Die in zahlreiche biologische Prozesse involvierte Aminosäure verlangsame den Alterungsprozess. Eine neue Science-Studie kommt nun zum gegenteiligen Schluss – Taurin eigne sich nicht als Biomarker fürs Altern. Ein Lehrstück über ein Forschungsfeld, das auch von kommerziellen Interessen getrieben ist. (19:06) Unverrückbare Schutthalde: Beim Bergsturz von Blatten donnerte keine Fels- und Schuttlawine ins Tal, sondern ein Gletscher mit Geröll obendrauf. Dies machte diesen Bergsturz so zerstörerisch und ist mit ein Grund, warum sich der mächtige Schuttkegel über dem Dorf nicht so einfach wegräumen lässt. Welche Rolle spielen Gletscher bei Bergstürzen und wie spielt dabei der Klimawandel mit? Links: Sachbuch: Thomas de Padova, Quantenlicht. Das Jahrzehnt der Physik 1919-1929 hanser-literaturverlage.de/personen/thomas-de-padova-p-1343 Enthornte Nashörner : science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado7490 Taurin-Studie: science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2116

Pierre-Michel MengerCollège de FranceAnnée 2023-2024Sociologie du travail créateurColloque - Boulez : l'invention au pouvoir ? Les années 1975-1995 - Réinventer la musique en laboratoire : l'Ircam comme expérience collaborativeSession 4 : La musique en questionIntervenant :Andrew GerzsoCollaborateur de Pierre Boulez pour les œuvres réalisés à l'Ircam, ancien directeur de département à l'IrcamColloque organisé pour le centenaire de la naissance de Pierre Boulez par le Pr Pierre-Michel Menger, chaire Sociologie du travail créateur, et Nicolas Donin, professeur de musicologie à l'université de Genève.Avec le soutien de la Fondation du Collège de France et de son grand mécène LVMH.Résumé« La musique n'a pas besoin d'un laboratoire ». C'est dans ces termes que le célèbre physicien et Prix Nobel Werner Heisenberg à l'institut Max Planck a rejeté en 1970 le projet de Pierre Boulez de collaboration entre sciences et musique. Werner Heisenberg pensait-il que la musique est uniquement le domaine de la subjectivité et de l'intuition (alors même que la lutherie, par exemple, implique une haute technicité guidée par des critères musicaux) ? Que scientifiques et musiciens ne pouvaient pas établir un dialogue et se stimuler mutuellement ?Dans une première partie, ma communication reviendra sur les différentes tentatives – fructueuses et infructueuses – au sein de l'Ircam dans ses premières années pour organiser cette fameuse collaboration entre scientifiques et musiciens afin d'explorer les nouvelles possibilités offertes à la musique par les technologies émergentes, notamment dans le domaine de l'informatique.Dans une deuxième partie, j'évoquerai les différentes modalités de travail qui ont caractérisé ma collaboration avec Pierre Boulez entre 1980 et 2011, lors de la production de ses œuvres à l'Ircam : Répons, Dialogue de l'ombre double, …explosante-fixe… et Anthèmes 2. Notre collaboration s'est mobilisée tantôt sur la recherche d'un vocabulaire musical électronique, tantôt autour d'une idée musicale, tantôt sur une métaphore qui devrait guider la réalisation électronique. Ces derniers points seront illustrés par quelques exemples tirés des œuvres de Pierre Boulez.

Between the time the first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1901 and 1933, a total of 31 were awarded to German scientists and politicians. To name just a few, Wilhelm Röntgen (1901), Max Planck (1918), Albert Einstein (1921) and Werner Heisenberg (1932) for Physics, Emil Fischer (1902), Fritz Haber (1918), Walther Nernst (1920) and Hans Fischer (1930) for chemistry, Emil von Behring (1901), Robert Koch (1905) and Otto Warburg (1931) for medicine, Theodor Mommsen (1902), Gerhart Hauptmann (1912) and Thomas Mann (1929) for literature and Gustav Stresemann for peace. The UK and France received 17 and 15 respectively, whilst the US picked up just 6 during that same period. How could German universities rise to such dominance during the 19th and early 20th century from very humble beginnings? That is what we will look at in this episode.The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0.As always:Homepage with maps, photos, transcripts and blog: www.historyofthegermans.comIf you wish to support the show go to: Support • History of the Germans PodcastFacebook: @HOTGPod Threads: @history_of_the_germans_podcastBluesky: @hotgpod.bsky.socialInstagram: history_of_the_germansTwitter: @germanshistoryTo make it easier for you to share the podcast, I have created separate playlists for some of the seasons that are set up as individual podcasts. they have the exact same episodes as in the History of the Germans, but they may be a helpful device for those who want to concentrate on only one season. So far I have:The Ottonians Salian Emperors and Investiture ControversyFredrick Barbarossa and Early HohenstaufenFrederick II Stupor MundiSaxony and Eastward ExpansionThe Hanseatic LeagueThe Teutonic KnightsThe Holy Roman Empire 1250-1356The Reformation before the Reformation

Letos mineva sto let od prelomnega trenutka, ko je nemški fizik Werner Heisenberg izpeljal zakone moderne kvantne fizike. Kar se je začelo kot abstraktna teorija za razlago skrivnostnih pojavov, je v desetletjih preraslo v temelje sodobnih tehnologij. Tokrat smo potovali v svet fotonov in elektronov in ta svet je precej drugačen od tega, ki smo ga vajeni in kot ga spontano razumemo. Če se nam zdi, da je v našem svetu vse obstaja na določenem mestu ob določenem času, je ta svet, kvantni svet, kot mu pravimo, zavit v meglo verjetnosti. Slišati je zapleteno … in najbrž je res kaj na tem. Frekvenca X je bila ob Kvantnem dnevu na Inštitutu Jožef Stefan, da vso to zapletenost vsaj malo razblini. Gostje: dr. Lev Vidmar, Institut "Jožef Stefan" in Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko v Ljubljani, dr. Lara Ulčakar, Institut "Jožef Stefan" in Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko v Ljubljani, dr. Anton Ramšak, Institut "Jožef Stefan" in Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko v Ljubljani, dr. Andrej Zorko, Institut "Jožef Stefan" in Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko, dr. Rok Žitko, Institut "Jožef Stefan" in Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko v Ljubljani, Martin Kerin, študent Fakultete za matematiko in fiziko v Ljubljani, Robert James Sunderland, arhiv na Inštitutu Nielsa Bohra, dr. Anton Zeilinger, Univerza na Dunaju, Janez Dovč, fizik, skladatelj, multiinstrumentalist, dr. Peter Jeglič, Institut "Jožef Stefan", dr. Matej Huš, Kemijski inštitut, Iris Ulčakar, Institut "Jožef Stefan" dr. Martin Rigler, Aerosol Poglavja: 00:01:14 Kaj je kvantna znanost? 00:06:14 Kaj je kvantna prepletenost? 00:09:42 Kako študentje razmišljajo o kvantni fiziki? 00:15:21 Zgodovina kvantne mehanike 00:33:00 Slovarček izrazov iz kvantne fizike 00:47:30 Kaj pomeni biti fizik? 00:57:26 Uporaba kvantne fizike v glasbi 00:59:46 Eksperiment, kvantno kriptiranje in teleportacija 01:16:20 Kje se uporabljajo kvantne tehnologije? 01:25:01 Kakšna je vloga slovenskih fizikov v svetu kvantne fizike

ABOUT JON HYMANJon Hyman is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Braze, the customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-app, and more. He leads the charge for building the platform's technical systems and infrastructure as well as overseeing the company's technical operations and engineering team.Prior to Braze, Jon served as lead engineer for the Core Technology group at Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. There, he managed a team that maintained 80+ software assets and was responsible for the security and stability of critical trading systems. Jon met cofounder Bill Magnuson during his time at Bridgewater, and together they won the 2011 TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. Jon is a recipient of the SmartCEO Executive Management Award in the CIO/CTO Category for New York. Jon holds a B.A. from Harvard University in Computer Science.ABOUT BRAZEBraze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024.  Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across North America, Europe, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.SHOW NOTES:What Jon learned from being the only person on call for his company's first four years (2:56)Knowing when it's time to get help managing your servers, ops, scaling, etc. (5:42)Establishing areas of product ownership & other scaling lessons from the early days (9:25)Frameworks for conversations on splitting of products across teams (12:00)The challenges, complexities & strategies behind assigning ownership in the early days (14:40)Founding Braze (18:01)Why Braze? The story & insights behind the original vision for Braze (20:08)Identifying Braze's product market fit (22:34)Early-stage PMF challenges faced by Jon & his co-founders (25:40)Pivoting to focus on enterprise customers (27:48)“Let's integrate the SDK right now” - founder-led sales ideas to validate your product (29:22)Behind the decision to hire a chief revenue officer for the first time (34:02)The evolution of enterprise & its impact on Braze's product offering (36:42)Growing out of your early-stage failure modes (39:00)Why it's important to make personnel decisions quickly (41:22)Setting & maintaining a vision pre IPO vs. post IPO (44:21)Jon's next leadership evolution & growth areas he is focusing on (49:50)Rapid fire questions (52:53)LINKS AND RESOURCESWhen We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut's fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger, the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

Albert Einstein, Genel Görelilik'i yazmış, hemen ardından bu teorisini gözleme dayalı bir şekilde kanıtlamıştı. Evrenin şifrelerini çözecek bir noktaya gelmişti artık. Kağıt üzerindeki tüm tahminleri evrende sıfır sapmayla karşılık buluyordu. Tüm gözler onun üzerindeydi. Ama o bunlarla da yetinmeyecekti. Kendince son bir misyonu daha vardı... Bilimin kutsal kasesini, yani Her Şeyin Teorisini bulmak.Hiçbir Şey Tesadüf Değil'deki Albert Einstein serimizin dördüncü ve son bölümünde bu hikayeye odaklanıyoruz. Einstein'ın son yıllarında yaşadıklarını ve Her Şeyin Teorisi'ni ararken başından geçenleri mercek altına alıyoruz.------- Podbee Sunar -------Bu podcast, Kuveyt Türk hakkında reklam içerir.Miles&Smiles Kuveyt Türk, ayrıcalıklı Mil dünyası ve size özel fırsatlarıyla her devirde yanınızda! Siz de mobilden Kuveyt Türklü olarak Miles&Smiles Kuveyt Türk kart başvurunuzu yapın, ayrıcalıklardan faydalanmaya başlayın. Detaylı bilgi için web sitesini ziyaret edebilirsiniz.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Humanity's understanding of the universe radically altered with the advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. The theory of quantum mechanics describes how nature behaves at or below the scale of atoms, and the road to that theory was littered with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. With us to discuss the development of quantum mechanics, and the major schools of thought represented by Neils Bohr and Albert Einstein, is Jim Baggott. Today we discuss many of the key players in the development of quantum mechanics, including Bohr, Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Planck, and Max Born.

Much is made in the LDS Church about how David Whitmer, one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, never recanted his testimony, even though he left the Church. What they don't tell you is that it was precisely his testimony of the Book of Mormon that drove him out. In this episode, Karl C. Sandberg tells the rest of Whitmer's story, showing how Whitmer, B. H. Roberts, and Werner Heisenberg represent three different types of believers—all offering something completely different. https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SLP-189.mp3

In unserem Feiertagsspecial lassen wir das Jahr 2024 gemeinsam ausklingen. Eva, Elka und Jana sprechen über einige der faszinierendsten Wissenschaftler:innen, die wir für ihre vielleicht übermenschlich erscheinenden Leistungen und Entdeckungen kennen. Aber dahinter stecken auch nur Menschen mit Stärken und Schwächen. Wir erzählen von Wolfgang Pauli, der angeblich technische Geräte zum Versagen brachte, von Werner Heisenberg, der fast durch die Doktorprüfung fiel, und von leuchtenden Waschbären. Außerdem haben wir Buchempfehlungen für die Feiertage mitgebracht und Elka wirft für uns einen Blick in die Zukunft. Ihr könnt uns gerne bei [Steady](https://steadyhq.com/de/cosmiclatte/), [Patreon] (https://patreon.com/CosmiclattePodcast), [Paypal](https://paypal.me/cosmiclattepod) unterstützen!

Get the latest insights from the AAMBITION Podcast delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe HERE.++++Episode 42 of the “Aerospace Ambition Podcast” featuring Prof. Ulrich Schumann (DLR) is out!Talking PointsInfluential Mentors and Career Journey: Ulrich reflects on formative mentorships, including ties to Werner Heisenberg, and a career spanning fluid dynamics, turbulence, and contrail science.Contrail Science Essentials: An accessible explanation of contrail formation, persistence, and their climate impact, including the Schmidt Appleman Criterion and radiative effects.Advances in Contrail Research: Key milestones in understanding contrails, evolving public discourse on aviation's non-CO2 effects, and debates shaped by influential studies.Contrail Prediction Models: Insights into CoCiP's framework, integration with pycontrails, and advancements through observational datasets and modeling techniques.Future of Contrail Management: Exploring bold visions for contrail mitigation, trial strategies, and the role of contrail science in sustainable aviation.GuestProf. Dr. Ulrich Schumann is a world leading expert in atmospheric physics. He earned his doctorate in Turbulence in 1973, was Director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at DLR the German Aerospace Center from 1982 until 2012, and now lectures on aviation climate impact at Technical University Munich.Professor Schumann is widely known for his seminal works on contrail science, contributing to the 1999 IPCC report and developing the contrail cirrus prediction tool CoCiP. He has also cooperated on various aviation research projects with the FAA, EUROCONTROL, NATS, ECMWF, airlines and engine industry.

What does it mean to perceive reality? How do art, science, and philosophy converge in shaping our understanding of the world? In this episode of Departures with Robert Amsterdam, we sit down with William Egginton, acclaimed author and professor, to dive into his latest book, "The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality." Egginton weaves a captivating narrative that bridges the literary genius of Jorge Luis Borges, the groundbreaking physics of Werner Heisenberg, the poetry of Robert Frost, and the profound philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Egginton explores how these thinkers confronted the boundaries of human knowledge, the mysteries of perception, and the paradoxes of existence, fate, and choice. In this conversation with Robert Amsterdam, Egginton shares his insights into the unexpected connections and overlapping themes with these towering figures, the questions they asked, and how their ideas resonate with our quest to make sense of an increasingly complex universe. The remarkable harmony between nature, science, art, philosophy and literature during these critical years resonated deeply with us, and we hope you enjoy this conversation about this special book.

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The Uncertainty Principle, also known as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, is a concept in quantum mechanics. Formulated by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, it states that there is a limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known. In simpler terms, the more accurately we know the position of a particle, the less accurately we can know its momentum, and vice versa. This principle highlights the inherent limitations in measuring quantum systems and is a key feature distinguishing quantum mechanics from classical physics.

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards?  Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'. The global impacts of this project were cataclysmic. Credible reports of German developments spurred the American Manhattan Project, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in turn the Soviet efforts. After the war these scientists' work was overshadowed by the twin shocks of Auschwitz and Hiroshima.  Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (Cambridge UP, 2024) sheds light on the postwar criticism and subsequent rehabilitation of the German scientists, including the controversial legend of Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker's visit to occupied Copenhagen in 1941. This scientifically accurate but non-technical history examines the impact of German efforts to harness nuclear fission, and the surrounding debates and legends.

Attentatet mot Norsk Hydros anläggning i Vemork, väster om Oslo, 1943 är en av de mest legendariska specialoperationerna under andra världskriget. Syftet var att förstöra möjligheterna för de nazityska fysikerna i Berlin att producera en kärnreaktor, och i förlängningen en atombomb. För detta krävdes så kallat tungvatten, eller deuterium, ett ämne som behövdes för att kontrollera kärnklyvningsprocessen i en reaktor.Den enda tungvattenanläggningen som Hitler hade kontroll över, var Norsk Hydros anläggning i Vemork. Därav hamnade anläggningen snart bland de allierades prioriterade mål.I denna nymixade repris av Militärhistoriepodden berättar idéhistorikern Peter Bennesved och professorn i historia Martin Hårdstedt om dramat vid Vemork och varför vi minns det än idag.Attentatet mot Norsk Hydro i Vemork genomfördes av norska frivilliga soldater under brittisk ledning och träning, och otroligt nog, helt utan blodspillan. Kommandosoldaterna, kända under namnet ”Kompani Linge”, lyckades obemärkt landsättas från England och ta sig över fjällvidderna på skidor, ta sig in i anläggningen obemärkt, spränga utrustningen i källaren och sedan fly därifrån utan att ett enda skott avlossades.Dramat runt kompani Linge och deras försök att beröva tyskarna möjligheterna att utveckla atombomber är väldokumenterat och framstår i sig som en närmast otrolig bedrift. Händelserna i Vemork ska dock ses i kontext med något mycket större och i efterhand kan hela uppdraget delvis ifrågasättas. Kompani Linges attacker var ju förvisso lyckade, men för att lyckas med att producera en atombomb skulle det krävas mycket mer än bara deuterium, så hur stor roll spelade egentligen Kompani Linges aktioner mot tyska intressen?Sedan 1930-talets mitt hade forskare på båda sidor av den europeiska konflikten försökt beforska och så småningom också försöka behärska kraften i kärnklyvningsprocessen. Men den tyska krigsmaktens sätt att bedriva forskning möjliggjorde knappast någon produktion av atombomber i långa loppet. Medan wehrmacht endast enrollerade en handfull fysiker och assistenter till försöken att producera en testreaktor, så beordrade President Roosevelt en enorm industriell satsning inom ramen för Manhattanprojektet, som sysselsatte mer än 100 000 människor. Den industriella och intellektuella kapaciteten i väst var helt enkelt mångdubbelt större.I efterhand är det än idag inte säkert att de tyska forskarna, med Werner Heisenberg i spetsen, ens hade förstått hur en bomb skulle kunna produceras. Kanske var då en av 1900-talets mest spektakulära specialoperationer, också en av de mest onödiga?Bild: Bilden är hämtad från Norska Nationalbibliotekets bildsamling. Noteringar till bilden var: Fotograf: Okänd Rjukanfossen, Vemork, Vestfjorddalen, Tinn, Telemark, Wikipedia, Public Domain.Klippare: Emanuel Lehtonen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we explore the concept of time through the lens of one of the most imaginative books of our time, Einstein's Dreams. The novel portrays Albert Einstein as a young scientist grappling with his dreams as he works on his theory of relativity. This episode promises to spark deep reflection, ignite your curiosity, and challenge your perception of time. We cover a wide range of topics including: The hidden costs of immortality Contemplating a world where every day is a fresh start Why it's easy to forget to appreciate the things you have How death ultimately gives our life meaning Our most obnoxious literary opinions And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Click (4:32) Books Mentioned: Einstein's Dreams Tao Te Ching (1:33) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Sovereign Individual (12:59) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Fourth Turning (13:01) (Book Episode) Logicomix (22:41) (Book Episode) East of Eden (30:30) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (32:11) The First World War (34:50) The Brothers K (34:51) Musashi (34:53) Infinite Jest (37:34) (Book Episode 1) (Book Episode 2) (Nat's Book Notes) Atlas Shrugged (37:58) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Gödel, Escher, Bach (43:45) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) People Mentioned: Alan Lightman John Steinbeck (18:31) Werner Heisenberg (23:29) Milan Kundera (32:23) David Perell (44:29) Show Topics: (0:00) In today's episode, we're covering Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. Adil shares his experience going through the book for the 3rd time, noting its unique approach devoid of traditional characters yet filled with intense emotional resonance across the theme of 'time'. (2:43) The stories challenge the way we think about time, with each chapter introducing a unique time variable that initially appears distinct on the surface. However, beneath the surface, these chapters resonate with aspects of our own reality. We list off a few chapters that were top of mind for us. (6:10) Death is what gives life meaning. We explore this concept by diving into one of the short stories where nobody dies. If you know that time is infinite, how would you spend that time?  (8:45) Which chapter(s) of Einstein's Dreams did we connect with the most?  (11:16) We discuss the concept of sleep training, contemplating the ideal scenario where babies would sleep according to their natural rhythms. However, balancing the baby's freedom to sleep spontaneously with the demands of a structured work and life schedule can be a struggle. (12:32) Nat, Neil, and Adil ponder the scenario if everyone were to just live one day. You wouldn't know seasons, and all you'll ever know is what the current day brings. (16:08) Connections between Einstein's Dreams and a previous read on the podcast, The Fourth Turning.  (17:51) Despite not having main characters (aside from Einstein and Besso), this book still manages to drive a lot of emotions. We admire Lightman's ability to write in a soft, empathetic way, while painting the picture for readers very effectively.  (19:59) Were these short stories from the book thoughts that Einstein may have had in real life as he worked towards his theories on time and relativity? (23:45) We touch on a story from the book where every day is truly a fresh start, and there is no knowledge of the past or future.  (26:45) Doing everything as if it's for the first time will give you excitement, but it's also meaningful to act as if you're doing something for the very last time.  (28:25) Einstein's theory of general relativity, and how at the time of this theory, it was still unknown in the world of physics that the world is constantly expanding rather than fixed. (30:27) Though it may not be the longest book, it still hits hard. Nat, Neil, and Adil share their appreciation for Einstein's Dreams being impactful despite the length. It's one of those books that can make you feel a different way each time you read it. (36:47) Shoutout to Jack for the book recommendation on Musashi! If you have any book recommendations that you'd like us to pick up for the show, you can submit them to us here.  (38:55) You can get away with a lot in books, but what about a 35,000 word speech? We talk about John Galt's mighty speech in Atlas Shrugged. So long as you give the readers a reason to finish the book and recommend it to others, you can really do what you want within the pages.  (44:17) That concludes this thought-provoking episode! Next up, we're tackling Martin Gilbert's The First World War. Make sure to give our new Instagram page a follow and shoot us a book recommendation. If you have any recs, please send them our way! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. 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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still a student, effectively created quantum mechanics for which he later won the Nobel Prize. Werner Heisenberg made this breakthrough in a paper in 1925 when, rather than starting with an idea of where atomic particles were at any one time, he worked backwards from what he observed of atoms and their particles and the light they emitted, doing away with the idea of their continuous orbit of the nucleus and replacing this with equations. This was momentous and from this flowed what's known as his Uncertainty Principle, the idea that, for example, you can accurately measure the position of an atomic particle or its momentum, but not both.With Fay Dowker Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College LondonHarry Cliff Research Fellow in Particle Physics at the University of CambridgeAnd Frank Close Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics and Fellow Emeritus at Exeter College at the University of OxfordProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Philip Ball, Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Vintage, 2018)John Bell, ‘Against 'measurement'' (Physics World, Vol 3, No 8, 1990)Mara Beller, Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2001)David C. Cassidy, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, And The Bomb (Bellevue Literary Press, 2010) Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy (first published 1958; Penguin Classics, 2000)Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics (Penguin, 2022)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German physicist who, at the age of 23 and while still a student, effectively created quantum mechanics for which he later won the Nobel Prize. Werner Heisenberg made this breakthrough in a paper in 1925 when, rather than starting with an idea of where atomic particles were at any one time, he worked backwards from what he observed of atoms and their particles and the light they emitted, doing away with the idea of their continuous orbit of the nucleus and replacing this with equations. This was momentous and from this flowed what's known as his Uncertainty Principle, the idea that, for example, you can accurately measure the position of an atomic particle or its momentum, but not both.With Fay Dowker Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College LondonHarry Cliff Research Fellow in Particle Physics at the University of CambridgeAnd Frank Close Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics and Fellow Emeritus at Exeter College at the University of OxfordProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Philip Ball, Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different (Vintage, 2018)John Bell, ‘Against 'measurement'' (Physics World, Vol 3, No 8, 1990)Mara Beller, Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2001)David C. Cassidy, Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, And The Bomb (Bellevue Literary Press, 2010) Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy (first published 1958; Penguin Classics, 2000)Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics (Penguin, 2022)

This is our latest weekly market update. Formulated by the German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the uncertainty principle states that we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or electron, with perfect accuracy; the more we nail down the particle’s position, the less we … Continue reading "The Market's Uncertainty Principle…"

Am 10.12.1933 erhält der Physiker Paul Dirac den Nobelpreis. Seine Dirac-Gleichung schreibt Geschichte. Trotzdem gilt das britische Ausnahmetalent als Außenseiter. Von Wolfgang Burgmer.

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton https://amzn.to/3tKTVPy Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is necessarily imbued with loss, that the one doesn't exist without the other. German physicist Werner Heisenberg was fighting with the scientific establishment on the meaning of the quantum realm's absurdity when he had his own epiphany—that there is no such thing as a complete, perfect description of reality. Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant pushed the assumptions of human reason to their mind-bending conclusions, but emerged with an idea that crowned a towering philosophical system—that the human mind has fundamental limits, and those limits undergird both our greatest achievements as well as our missteps. Through fiction, science, and philosophy, the work of these three thinkers coalesced around the powerful, haunting fact that there is an irreconcilable difference between reality “out there” and reality as we experience it. Out of this profound truth comes a multitude of galvanizing ideas: the notion of selfhood, free will, and purpose in human life; the roots of morality, aesthetics, and reason; and the origins and nature of the cosmos itself. As each of these thinkers shows, every one of us has a fundamentally incomplete picture of the world. But this is to be expected. Only as mortal, finite beings are we able to experience the world in all its richness and breathtaking majesty. We are stranded in a gulf of vast extremes, between the astronomical and the quantum, an abyss of freedom and absolute determinism, and it is in that center where we must make our home. A soaring and lucid reflection on the lives and work of Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant, The Rigor of Angels movingly demonstrates that the mysteries of our place in the world may always loom over us—not as a threat, but as a reminder of our humble humanity.

It can be tempting, when first introduced to a deep concept of physics like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, to draw grand philosophical conclusions about the impossibility of knowing anything precisely. That is generally a temptation to be resisted, just because it's so easy to do it wrong. But there is absolutely a place for a careful humanistic synthesis of these kinds of scientific ideas with other ideas, for example from philosophy or literature. That's the kind of task William Egginton takes on in his new book The Rigor of Angels, which compares the work of philosopher Immanuel Kant, physicist Werner Heisenberg, and author Jorge Luis Borges, three thinkers who grappled with limitations on our aspirations to know reality directly.Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/23/254-william-egginton-on-kant-heisenberg-and-borges/Support Mindscape on Patreon.William Egginton received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. He is currently the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins. He is the author of numerous books on literature, literary theory, and philosophy. In addition to The Rigor of Angels, he has an upcoming book on the work of Chilean film director Alejandro Jodorowsky.Web siteJohns Hopkins web pageWikipediaAmazon author pageSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

 “The scientific community is by any measure a very strange kind of community”, writes my guest. “For starters, no one knows who exactly belongs to it... Its members are a miscellany of individuals but also of disparate institutions…Nor does it have a fixed location. …the village conjured up by the term “scientific community” is scattered all over the globe and its inhabitants meet only occasionally, if at all. Far from living in neighborly harmony or even collegial mutual tolerance, the members of this uncommunal community compete ferociously and engage in notoriously vitriolic polemics … Although modern science has been called the locomotive of all modernity, the scientific community more closely resembles a medieval guild…” Given this, one is bound to ask how precisely this scattered contentious stratified “community” even exists, let alone cooperates. Yet cooperation has been a continuous strand uniting modern science.  Lorraine Daston has described the growth and mutations of that community in her new book Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate. She  is the Director Emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Study.  For Further Investigation Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live By Here is an excellent conversation with Lorraine Daston about her book Rules which, unfortunately, was not a conversation on Historically Thinking We've had numerous conversations about topics within the history of science over the years. Here is a list. The featured image below is of the Fifth Solvay Conference, at which every luminary of past and future physics seems to have been gathered. Hopefully you recognize the bushy-haired man with the big mustache more or less in the center of the first row. Less identifiable than Albert Einstein: Max Planck (first row, 2nd from left); Marie Curie (first, row 3rd from left); Niels Bohr (second row, extreme right); Paul Dirac (second row, fifth from left); Ernst Schrödinger (third row, sixth from right); Wolfgang Pauli (third row, fourth from right); Werner Heisenberg (third row, third from right). And many more who deserve mention, which you can find here.

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 2000, “Copenhagen,” is a gripping and intellectually stimulating play that explores the events surrounding a mysterious and fateful meeting between two of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century: Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The play is being performed through October 29th at the Berkshire Theatre Group's Unicorn Theatre. Eric Hill directs the production for BTG and he joins us.

Wolf's inquiring mind has delved into the relationship between human consciousness, psychology, physiology, the mystical, and the spiritual. His investigations have taken him from intimate discussions with physicist David Bohm to the magical and mysterious jungles of Peru, from a significant meeting with Werner Heisenberg to the hot coals of a firewalk. For more info about Carole Dean and From the Heart Productions please visit www.FromtheHeartProductions.com.

This week, Dana and Stephen are once again joined by Kat Chow, author of the memoir Seeing Ghosts. The panel begins by jumping into the ring with Cassandro, the oddly conflict-adverse biopic about the lucha libre superstar and exótico gay icon, Saúl Armendáriz, who is played terrifically by Gael García Bernal in a provocative, tour-de-force performance. Then, the trio wades into comedian–and future Daily Show host hopeful–Hasan Minhaj's thorny web of lies with Slate staff writer, Nitish Pahwa, who detailed the devastating impact of Minhaj's many falsehoods in his essay, “Hasan Minhaj Meant Something to Brown Americans. Was It All an Act?” Finally, the three react to “The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time,” written by the Slate Staff, a massive labor of love and fun thought experiment that spans The Sopranos, Atlanta, The Larry Sanders Show, Black Mirror, and High Maintenance.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel discusses the impact the last few years have had on their lives, inspired by Katy Schneider's essay for The Cut, “The Pandemic Skip.” Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Endorsements: Dana: Dana sent this to everyone she knows–family, friends, etc. It's a new interview with Martin Scorsese, written by Zach Baron for GQ entitled “Martin Scorsese: ‘I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.'” In addition to films and moviemaking (his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, is set to be released in October), the legendary director, now 80, also speaks candidly about life, its inevitable end, and his own mortality. It's a dream of an interview and absolutely sublime.  Kat: Small Things Like These, a beautifully written historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan about the horrific conditions women and children endured at Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.  Stephen: “Quantum poetics,” an essay in Aeon written by William Egginton, a professor of humanities at James Hopkins University. In it, Egginton describes the ways Argentine short story author, Jorge Luis Borges, and German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg “converged on the notion that language both enables and interferes with our grasp of reality.”  Outro music: “Forbidden Love” by OTE Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Dana and Stephen are once again joined by Kat Chow, author of the memoir Seeing Ghosts. The panel begins by jumping into the ring with Cassandro, the oddly conflict-adverse biopic about the lucha libre superstar and exótico gay icon, Saúl Armendáriz, who is played terrifically by Gael García Bernal in a provocative, tour-de-force performance. Then, the trio wades into comedian–and future Daily Show host hopeful–Hasan Minhaj's thorny web of lies with Slate staff writer, Nitish Pahwa, who detailed the devastating impact of Minhaj's many falsehoods in his essay, “Hasan Minhaj Meant Something to Brown Americans. Was It All an Act?” Finally, the three react to “The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time,” written by the Slate Staff, a massive labor of love and fun thought experiment that spans The Sopranos, Atlanta, The Larry Sanders Show, Black Mirror, and High Maintenance.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel discusses the impact the last few years have had on their lives, inspired by Katy Schneider's essay for The Cut, “The Pandemic Skip.” Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Endorsements: Dana: Dana sent this to everyone she knows–family, friends, etc. It's a new interview with Martin Scorsese, written by Zach Baron for GQ entitled “Martin Scorsese: ‘I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.'” In addition to films and moviemaking (his latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, is set to be released in October), the legendary director, now 80, also speaks candidly about life, its inevitable end, and his own mortality. It's a dream of an interview and absolutely sublime.  Kat: Small Things Like These, a beautifully written historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan about the horrific conditions women and children endured at Magdalene Laundries in Ireland.  Stephen: “Quantum poetics,” an essay in Aeon written by William Egginton, a professor of humanities at James Hopkins University. In it, Egginton describes the ways Argentine short story author, Jorge Luis Borges, and German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg “converged on the notion that language both enables and interferes with our grasp of reality.”  Outro music: “Forbidden Love” by OTE Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Werner Heisenberg fue uno de los científicos más controvertidos del Tercer Reich: figura clave en la construcción de una bomba atómica, objetivo de un complot de asesinato aliado.Werner Karl Heisenberg ​ fue un físico teórico alemán y uno de los pioneros clave de la mecánica cuántica. Publicó su trabajo en 1925 en el artículo revolucionario Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen. Premio Nobel de Física, Medalla Matteucci, Medalla Max Planck, Medalla de Oro Internacional Nield Bohr

La primera bomba atómica de la historia hizo explosión en la madrugada del 16 de julio de 1945 en un desierto del Estado de Nuevo México. No mató a nadie, fue una simple prueba que culminaba el denominado Proyecto Manhattan, nombre en clave que empleó el Gobierno de Estados Unidos para desarrollar las tres primeras armas nucleares. La primera de ellas, llamada Trinity, fue la que detonaron en el desierto para comprobar si las investigaciones realizadas en el laboratorio les habían llevado a buen puerto. Fabricaron otras dos: Little Boy, que sería arrojada sobre la ciudad japonesa de Hiroshima el 6 de agosto de 1945, y Fat Man, que se lanzó sobre Nagasaki tres días después. Estas bombas forzaron al imperio japonés a solicitar la rendición y así concluyó la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El director de ese proyecto que convirtió a Estados Unidos en la primera potencia nuclear fue Julius Robert Oppenheimer, un físico teórico de Nueva York que en sólo un par de años reunió en el laboratorio nacional de Los Álamos a muchos de los mejores científicos de la época. Gracias a su intuición y sus dotes de liderazgo, consiguió demostrar que lo que tan sólo era una novedosa teoría se transformase en el arma más temida de la historia. Quizá por eso mismo y ya en condición de héroe nacional fue posteriormente matizando su visión del arma atómica. En ese cambio tuvo mucho que ver la experiencia de los bombardeos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Cuando observó con sus propios ojos la destrucción absoluta que había ayudado a crear, se convirtió en un crítico de su uso, se opuso al desarrollo de la bomba de hidrógeno e insistió en que se controlase la proliferación de armas nucleares. Ese Oppenheimer de posguerra es mucho menos conocido, pero ayuda a entender al personaje histórico. Oppenheimer no era un físico al uso. Hijo de un rico comerciante textil hecho a sí mismo, estudió en Harvard, pero no física, sino química. Se interesó entonces por la física experimental y decidió cruzar el Atlántico para estudiar en la universidad de Cambridge junto a uno de los físicos experimentales más famosos del mundo. Una vez allí comprobó que lo suyo no era experimentar, sino trabajar la teoría, eso le llevó de cabeza a Alemania, a la universidad de Gotinga, para realizar su doctorado. En esos años en Europa trabó contacto con los principales físicos de su época, gente como Max Born, Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli o Niels Bohr que se encontraban en ese momento realizando contribuciones revolucionarias a esa ciencia. De regreso a Estados Unidos obtuvo un puesto de profesor en la universidad de Berkeley donde empezó a colaborar con Ernest Lawrence, un compatriota suyo y físico experimental que años después sería galardonado con el premio Nobel. En Berkeley, aparte de desarrollar alguna actividad política menor, se convirtió en un profesor muy reconocido tanto por sus alumnos como por sus colegas. Esa sería su carta de presentación cuando la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Proyecto Manhattan se cruzaron en su vida. El Gobierno tenía la urgente necesidad de anticiparse a los alemanes en el desarrollo de la bomba atómica y ahí estaba Robert Oppenheimer con todo su conocimiento, su red de contactos y sus dotes organizativas para resolver ese problema. Fue ese proyecto el que le catapultaría hacia la inmortalidad y seguramente también del que más se arrepintió años después. 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Episode: 2699 Heligoland, a bucolic magnet for the machines of war.  Today, we visit Heligoland.

In 1938, German scientist split the atom for the first time, and the nuclear age is born. The Nazis give the task of building the Atomic Bomb to Nobel Peace prize-winning nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg. In response to the threat of Hitler with nuclear weapons, the United States government devises a plan to send someone after the German scientist to ascertain the validity of the intelligence recieved, and assassinate Werner Heisenberg if it is credible... The person they tab for this mission is, former MLB back-up catcher, Moe Berg. #MoeBerg #OSS #CIA #RaySchalk #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #BrooklynRobins #ChicagoWhiteSox #ClevelandIndians #BostonRedSox #AdolphHitler #WashingtonSenators #BabeRuth #LouGehrig #JimmyFoxx #WernerHeisenberg

In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him. Lovell became the head of a secret group of scientists who developed dirty tricks for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. Their inventions included bat bombs, suicide pills, fighting knives, silent pistols, and camouflaged explosives. Moreover, they forged documents for undercover agents, plotted the assassination of foreign leaders, and performed truth drug experiments on unsuspecting subjects. Shermer and Lisle discuss: • why countries have spy agencies • from COI to OSS to CIA • Wild Bill Donavan • Stanley Lovell as Professor Moriarty • Vannevar Bush • Division 19 • George Kistiakowsky and the Aunt Jemima explosive weapon • cat bombs, bat bombs, rat bomb, suicide pills, fighting knives, silent pistols, camouflaged explosives, A-pills, B-pills, E-pills, L-pills • psychological warfare • heavy water and nuclear weapons • Werner Heisenberg, Moe Berg, and Carl Eifler • biological and chemical warfare • Operation Paperclip • truth drugs • Sidney Gottlieb, LSD, and MKULTRA (Bluebird, Artichoke). John Lisle is a historian of science and the American intelligence community. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas and has taught courses on U.S. history, cyberspace, and information warfare at the University of Texas, Louisiana Tech University, and Austin Community College. His writing has appeared in Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Skeptic, The Journal of Intelligence History, and Physics in Perspective. The Dirty Tricks Department is his first book. In Vol. 25, No. 2 of Skeptic he wrote about MKULTRA, the CIA program in search of mind control technology.

Norwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg. Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, Jed Kurzel, Hala Strana, Anne Hytta, Nine Inch Nails, and Nico. Support the showwww.patreon.com/historium