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Heisenberg
[ hahy-zuhn-burg; German hahy-zuhn-berk ]
noun
- Wer·ner Karl [ver, -n, uh, r, kah, r, l], 1901–76, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1932.
Heisenberg
/ ˈhaizənbɛrk; ˈhaɪzənˌbɜːɡ /
noun
- HeisenbergWerner Karl19011976MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Werner Karl (ˈvɛrnər karl). 1901–76, German physicist. He contributed to quantum mechanics and formulated the uncertainty principle (1927): Nobel prize for physics 1932
Heisenberg
/ hī′zən-bûrg′ /
- German physicist who founded the field of quantum mechanics in 1925 and elaborated the uncertainty principle in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1932.
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Example Sentences
The interpretation draws a line—the so-called Heisenberg cut—between systems that obey quantum laws and observers that follow classical physics.
Heisenberg’s principle expressed the shocking realization that the unbroken chain of cause and effect deduced from Newtonian physics was an illusion, an approximation that nature did not observe on the subatomic scale.
Heisenberg is believed to have escaped on a bicycle, his backpack stuffed with cubes of the heavy metal, before the Allies arrested his scientists and interrogated them in an effort to find out the reactor’s location.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle — which states that if the location of an object is well-known, its momentum cannot be — suggests that an electron confined within a nucleus would have an unreasonably large energy.
At the moment, all that’s certain is uncertainty—a notion that would surely please even Heisenberg himself.
I actually look forward to my FUN exercise session every afternoon, if only to see what Heisenberg is up to next!
For the first time, what Heisenberg does, he does—knowingly, consciously—for himself.
For a moment or two, it looked like Walter “Heisenberg” White might actually become “Mr. Lambert.”
We heard it for the first time when Heisenberg was in the bunker with Saul.
Walt knows that he can save his family now only by leaving it—by erasing Walter White and installing Heisenberg in his place.
I was attempting to confound Heisenberg's statement; but instead I think between us we have confused the issue.
Heisenberg's principle showed that the law of cause and effect weren't absolute.
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