Uncertainty

Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's theorem stated that there were physical limits to what we could know about sub-atomic particles; this "uncertainty" would have shocking implications. In a riveting account, David Lindley captures this critical episode and explains one of the most important scientific discoveries in history, which has since transcended the boundaries of science and influenced everything from literary theory to television.

david lindley holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics and has been an editor at Nature, Science, and Science News. He is the author of The End of Physics, Degrees Kelvin, Where Does the Weirdness Go?, and Boltzmann’s Atom. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Introduction	p. 1
Irritable Particles	p. 9
Entropy Strives Toward a Maximum	p. 20
An Enigma, A Subject of Profound Astonishment	p. 32
How Does an Electron Decide?	p. 44
An Audacity Unheard of in Earlier Times	p. 55
Lack of Knowledge is no Guarantee of Success	p. 69
How Can One Be Happy?	p. 83
I Would Rather Be A Cobbler	p. 94
Something Has Happened	p. 105
The Soul of the Old System	p. 117
I Am Inclined to Give Up Determinism	p. 129
Our Words Don't Fit	p. 140
Awful Bohr Incantation Terminology	p. 152
Now the Game Was Won	p. 164
Life-Experience and Not Scientific Experience	p. 176
Possibilities of Unambiguous Interpretation	p. 187
The No-Man's-Land Between Logic and Physics	p. 200
Anarchy at Last	p. 210
Postscript	p. 220
Acknowledgments	p. 223
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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