Epiphanies figure large in the story of quantum mechanics. Within a single momentous year, Heisenberg’s fever- induced vision of the act of observing altering the reality observed provided the missing piece for the principle of uncertainty. Bohr’s Taoist- inflected yin- yang of a single object sharing opposing attributes of wave and particle opened the doors of perception for his holistic principle of complementarity. Schrodinger’s ecstatic dalliance in Davos inspired the wave equation that he thought would “save the soul” of classical mechanics by showing how a packet of waves could create the illusion of a single particle. As with the wave that becomes particulate, so too comes the passage of this book. An epiphany serves as a catalyst for a radical break from the past, which then becomes an origin story for an indeterminate future.
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