Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:11:12 -0600
Subject: Re: BLAKE & THE MODERNS (1)


Mattie,

        I haven't seen what you said about QM, but I thought I'd offer a
clarification. Heisenberg did not get a Nobel Prize for his "view" of
quantum mechanics. First, he got it for creating quantum mechanics, i.e.,
he was the first to set up (a part of) the formalism and the framework in
which the problems at hand could be solved. Second, you may not be aware
that the uncertainty principle is a trivial mathematical consequence of the
formalism of QM. Physicists don't always have to speculate about
epistemology; sometimes they can derive it.

Also, mentioning the Nobel Prize to show Heisenberg's importance is like
saying Newton was a great man because he was knighted.

Rahul




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