Through the Eye of Time (1977)
“For example we would think it ludicrous for someone to sustain an injury and then to have the accident which caused it. Or for a cup to shatter before it fell to the floor. Yet in the sub-atomic world of quantum mechanics similar strange happenings do occur – leading to even stranger theories as to the nature of time (linked indissolubly with causality), the ultimate reality of energy and matter, and the ‘laws’ of probability.
The theoretical work which first questioned our unthinking acceptanc...e of causality was carried out in the 1920s by physicists whose inspiration had come – of course – from Einstein. The line of thought passed through Bohr, de Broglie, Bose, Dirac, Schrödinger, and came to fulfilment in a twenty-three-year-old German physicist, Werner Heisenberg. He proposed that the quantum world – the world inside the atom – is by its very nature unobservable. If we wish to know, say, the position and momentum of a single particle we must bombard it with photons (particles of light) in order to observe it.MoreLess
The theoretical work which first questioned our unthinking acceptanc...e of causality was carried out in the 1920s by physicists whose inspiration had come – of course – from Einstein. The line of thought passed through Bohr, de Broglie, Bose, Dirac, Schrödinger, and came to fulfilment in a twenty-three-year-old German physicist, Werner Heisenberg. He proposed that the quantum world – the world inside the atom – is by its very nature unobservable. If we wish to know, say, the position and momentum of a single particle we must bombard it with photons (particles of light) in order to observe it.MoreLess
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