artistic license and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
or, Science as Metaphor (in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen):
Werner Heisenberg's theory told us that it is impossible to know the exact momentum and location of a particle at the same time. Frayn's play stresses the complementarity of language (by which an ambiguous statement can be seen in a number of ways) and the uncertainty of history (by which looking backwards at the past clouds our ability to fully understand it).
If we can't know everything about a physical object, we can't make predictions about it...ergo= can we ever really have absolute knowledge of anyone's intentions?
The poetic potential of science continues to inspire and impress me.
Saturday, July 1
Werner Heisenberg's theory told us that it is impossible to know the exact momentum and location of a particle at the same time. Frayn's play stresses the complementarity of language (by which an ambiguous statement can be seen in a number of ways) and the uncertainty of history (by which looking backwards at the past clouds our ability to fully understand it).
If we can't know everything about a physical object, we can't make predictions about it...ergo= can we ever really have absolute knowledge of anyone's intentions?
The poetic potential of science continues to inspire and impress me.
Saturday, July 1
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