These different kinds of motion for atoms and molecules produce different systems in Heisenberg's quantum mechanics. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 and 1933 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Biologist Martin Heisenberg writes an article for Nature which purports to address the issue of free will, but ultimately does nothing of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
“I remember at the time,” he said, “you felt the Heisenberg was a prototype.”. From Wordnik.com. [DARK VICTORY] Reference
To quote my husband, "Would you really want to trust your atoms to something called a Heisenberg compensator?". From Wordnik.com. [TrekToday] Reference
It's a kind of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, ya know?. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
But in another circle of darkness would be found even other scientists, heretics such as Heisenberg and de Broglie. From Wordnik.com. [Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange] Reference
At one time, Trader Joe's sold a variety of coffee labelled as 'Heisenberg's Blend' - it was coffee where the roasting company had lost track of the variety. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 137] Reference
His principle, known as the "Heisenberg" or Uncertainty Principle, says that at the sub-atomic level one cannot know both the speed and position of a particle. From Wordnik.com. [Concise Dictionary of Religion] Reference
Walt basically has nothing left but "Heisenberg" now. From Wordnik.com. [TiVo Community] Reference
This circumstance is known as Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. From Wordnik.com. [There are no Great Novels] Reference
He reaches for the constructed symbolism of roles and guises (such as the cryptic "Heisenberg," or the less cryptic World's Best Dad), and he always. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Square News] Reference
Heisenberg said that this was a great help for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis of Perception] Reference
They should learn about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Criticizes New York Times Story On Poll] Reference
Atomic Scientists 24 (June 1968): 34 – 35; Heisenberg, Werner. From Wordnik.com. [Lise Meitner.] Reference
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is not a dynamical equation. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
Our idea of nations is from Newton, Afghanistan is from Heisenberg. From Wordnik.com. [Presidential Fictions that Bind Us to Afghanistan] Reference
He walks up to Heisenberg and asks, “Do you know how fast you were going?”. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
As Heisenberg has argued, if you cannot measure it, it probably does not exist. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Mechanics Made Easy?] Reference
Heisenberg principle by Ariel Monserrat on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 at 11: 06: 21 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Be Intelligent and Believe in Evolution?] Reference
Kuhn posited, as did Heisenberg, that science is never removed from subjectivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended] Reference
Likewise with Gödel and Heisenberg on “incompleteness” and “uncertainty.”. From Wordnik.com. [I just like saying “phlogiston”] Reference
Reality is Heisenberg not Newton, quantum physics rather than the world as a machine. From Wordnik.com. [Deane Waldman: Nothing Is Everything: Fallacy of "The One."] Reference
But they would have been saying that without knowing of Planck or Einstein or Heisenberg. From Wordnik.com. [Linking Brains, Computers] Reference
Can try to use Heisenberg uncertainty principle to talk your way out of a traffic ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Why Study Physics? – The Results] Reference
Originally this conception forced itself upon Heisenberg as a result of experimental research. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The same is the case with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the notion of fluctuations. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
Lynch has become the Heisenberg of cinema, telling us that the uncertainty principle rules our lives. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Lane To Nowhere] Reference
It is reminiscent of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle we all heard about in high school physics class. From Wordnik.com. [Danny Schechter: Enough Already] Reference
This mathematical reduction suffers from the same uncertainty that Heisenberg proved at the subatomic level. From Wordnik.com. [The Center Cannot Hold - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBlogger] Reference
Did Bohr argue with Heisenberg over his use of scientific knowledge to build a weapon that could destroy humanity?. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Pasternack: Deal and No Deal: What the Hell Happened at Copenhagen] Reference
Physics, as Heisenberg came to see it, did not describe an independent nature but only our relationship with nature. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
And after the war, he is kind of surprised that Heisenberg hasn't come up with the notion of a nuclear chain reaction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2007] Reference
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a quantum analogue of the Nyquist rule in electromagnetism and mechanical vibrations. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
Think of this as the Big Law version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: Observation of a thing affects the thing itself. From Wordnik.com. [Tart Reform! Facing Heat, Legal Ladies and Laddies Stay Buttoned] Reference
Like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- we cannot accurately observe anything without considering how we effect what we are observing. From Wordnik.com. [Diane Perlman: NIE: PIE in Our Face] Reference
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