The Uncertainty Principle

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Science operated under something called determinism. There is a deterministi cause, deterministic effect. Oheisenberg says that if you want to measure an electron, you can either measure its velocity, or you can measure its current placement. But you cannot measure both. The whole world fundamentally makes sense then comes a long quanto mechanics.

In the 1920s, the scientist Werner Heisenberg came up with a wild idea that broke reality as Western science knew it. And it's still unsettling to think about. Benjamin Labatut's recent book, When We Cease to Understand the World, makes readers feel the aftershocks of the revelation, asking, "What's real?"

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