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One hundred years ago, a 23-year-old postdoc named Werner Heisenberg completed a calculation that would become the heart of quantum mechanics, a radical yet stunningly accurate theory of the atomic and subatomic world. www.quantamagazine.org/its-a-mess-a...

A black and white portrait of a young Werner Heisenberg
aug 9, 2025, 6:30 pm • 54 16

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Jan Potters @janpotters.bsky.social

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Nh springer dad @spectre59.bsky.social

How certain was he…

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Michael Wilkinson @mwmathsci.bsky.social

Well, pretty sure he was sitting on that chair but had no idea what time it was or how fast he was moving. 😉

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