How Heisenberg Discovered Quantum Mechanics
947K views · Dec 27, 2025 · Education
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@AbideByReason · 9 months ago · pinned
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@Le_taha · 8 months ago
thats so impressive considering he still had to run a carwash at the same time
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@Arthur-Morgan-From-RDR · 7 months ago
“Jesse, we need to solve the grand unified field theory”
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@evilrusty1824 · 4 months ago
It's Amazing how a German Physicist named himself after Walter Whites character
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@wartap · 9 months ago
Which Episode of Breaking Bad is this
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@stevenanderson7046 · 7 months ago
Thank God, a History video that's not AI
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@jkzero · 9 months ago
Very nice overview leading to Heisenberg's work. I appreciate the shout out to my video decoding Heisenberg's paper.
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@paul-tz7ld · 9 months ago
Shrodinger was one of the first to fully understand it: he had shown the equivalence between the matrix formulation and his own equation in one of his early papers in 1926.
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@liternix · 8 months ago
I thought he was only into cooking lol
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@DeepakRaj-zw6jj · 3 months ago
So, Werner Ziegler and Heisenberg worked together to bring this theory. This is ultimate Breaking Bad..😂
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@Akmpro155 · 9 months ago
What a great video containing proper history rather than just scattered topics like in a textbook❤
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@melangalade · 4 months ago (edited)
mind gets fogged by hayfever : invents quantum mechanics<br><br>imagine what he would've invented if his mind were not foggy
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