![]() ![]() The Einstein estate is held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and since 1987, his collected works in several volumes have been published by Princeton University Press. Since Einstein himself contributed a foreword to this book in 1942, it may be regarded as authorized. Particularly authentic in this regard are the descriptions by his friend Philipp Frank, written in German between 19 in the United States. So, we must restrict ourselves in understanding his life to his correspondence and to biographies. By contrast, from the phenomena in the atomic domain, Heisenberg concluded that a theory can only describe possible processes and their probabilities.Įinstein left us no autobiography he felt such books were products either of narcissism or expressions of hostility toward his fellow man. Einstein held that a physical theory must predict events precisely according to the rules of causality. ![]() Along with their commonalities, though, there were also significant differences in their modes of thought. These two great scholars both grew up in Munich and attended school there, and both were lovers of music. Heisenberg’s discovery of the uncertainty principle has far-reaching consequences for the philosophy of nature and epistemology. It also permitted description of the physical attributes of molecules, chemical bonds, crystals, solid state, and semiconductors and is thus the foundation of modern computer technology. ![]() With his quantum mechanics, he opened up for us the world of the submicroscopic constituents of matter, atoms, atomic nuclei, and elementary particles. Shortly thereafter, in subjecting classical physics similarly to a revolutionary transformation, Werner Heisenberg was able to explain the behavior of the smallest building blocks of matter. Thereby, he predicted a great many heretofore unknown cosmic phenomena that, in the course of time, have been discovered empirically: deflection of light in a gravitational field, black holes, stretching of time in high-velocity objects, gravitational waves, and others. At the beginning of the century, our place in the universe, the origin and evolution of the cosmos, and the meaning of space and time were consolidated by Albert Einstein into a new and revolutionary picture in a relativity theory described mathematically. The physics of the twentieth century rests on two foundational pillars. 1.3 Student at the Luitpold Gymnasium, MunichĢ.5 Heisenberg in Göttingen and Copenhagenģ.3 Professor at Zürich, Prague, and again in Zürichģ.4 The General Theory of Relativity, and Berlinģ.5 Heisenberg’s Breakthrough to Quantum Mechanicsģ.6 The Completion of the New Quantum TheoryĤ.2 Effect of the General Relativity Theoryĥ.2 Einstein’s Pacifism, the Bomb and the Franck Reportĥ.3 Heisenberg, the War Years, and the Uranium Clubĩ.1 Einstein-the Philosopher in Princeton and his “Unified Field Theory”ĩ.2 Heisenberg-the Government Advisor in Göttingen and Munich Reconstruction, Theory of Everything ![]()
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