According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and recently returned to the island to discuss its future
I have been to more scientific conferences than I care to count, but a recent meeting held on the island of Helgoland to celebrate the centenary of quantum mechanics is one of the strangest – in a good way.
The reason we are here is revealed on a rock on the cliff path. It bears a bronze plaque that suggests this is where physicist Werner Heisenberg, on an excursion to seek relief from his hay fever in 1925,. Sadly, that isn’t really true – at best Heisenberg sketched out some ideas here that only subsequently did he and others develop into a full quantum theory. And the version we are more familiar with today was, this is the obvious year to choose.
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