Word: dualistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that hypotheses should be avoided. In the light of wave mechanics alone, electrons lost their individualities, melted into a continuous field of negative electricity. But there was strong experimental evidence of "discontinuity," of individuality. For example, single electrons made tracks which could be photographed. Thus the election became a dualistic enigma, dancing weirdly in n dimensions. It was about this dualist electron that Dr. Heisenberg postulated his famed Uncertainty Principle. The position or velocity of a given electron, he showed, might be determined, never both. Increased precision in one calculation simply magnified the error in the other. This principle...
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