One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

Devised by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the so-called uncertainty principle states that we cannot accurately know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or ...

Drawing on captured Nazi documents found in Soviet archives and other recently released materials, Cassidy (J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century) offers a new view of the German wunderkind ...

They knew it was true, but now they've shown it: Scientists have demonstrated that the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous rules of quantum physics, operates in macroscopic objects visible ...

Late one summer morning in 1919, a young student at the University of Munich sat on the roof of its Training College with a copy of Plato’s Timaeus. The short but bloody reign of the Bavarian Soviet ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Anil Ananthaswamy HELGOLAND Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution By Carlo Rovelli Translated by ...

How close were the Nazis getting to making an atom bomb? This frightening question spurred U.S. bombmakers throughout the war. It also helped still their consciences. The Germans never came very close ...