"I don't like your kind of physics...", Einstein declares to Heisenberg. The eminent physicist is approaching 50. He is the "elder" of science; everyone respects him, but the significant work is now being done by young scientists.
All night long, Heisenberg was in a state of hyper-excitement; he couldn't close his eyes. He wrote and rewrote his "crazy" expressions for position and velocity, applying his newly reformed mathematics. With the first light of day, he went to the seashore and lay on the rocks under the beneficial, warm sun rays. What he discovered was a gift from above. He envisioned the stunning consequences of his "crazy" calculations. "Finally... something happened," he thought, filled with admiration.
For scientists, nothing happened by chance. There was uncertainty regarding the results of experiments and the verification of theories, but in the end, the laws of classical physics restored order and predictability. Not always! Unsolved problems ignited the minds of young, ingenious scientists - and through groundbreaking solutions, scientific revolutions emerged. Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" was one of them. It represented the culmination of "quantum mechanics," which had already overturned many of the beliefs of classical physics, in an attempt to interpret issues that older physics could not handle.