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...second idea further complicates the ideological position of traditional econometricians by borrowing heavily from physicist Werner Heisenberg??s principle of uncertainty. If the observer adds an element of uncertainty by the mere fact of observing, then fully determined prediction is not a matter of how much data one can gather. Rather, it is “computationally intractable,” meaning that if there were an answer, the amount of data required to compute it is beyond not only our current methods, but anything we could ever achieve—we just cannot expect computers to model...
...play is an admirable attempt to integrate science and literature, but it quickly descends into an endless pun about uncertainty—as in Heisenberg??s Uncertainty Principle—which the play itself never quite cognizes. The work suffers from an overabundance of mere observations of the ways human behavior can correspond with anthropomorphic interpretations of QM. This method is inherently problematic; the physics can really only tell us the outcomes of experiments concerning the quantum world. At best it allows room to imagine what subatomic particles do, but that has nothing to do with what humans...
...when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” I believe that herein rests the trap of “quantum literature”: the purposeful conflation of Keats’s and Heisenberg??s uncertainties...
Negative capability has nothing to do with the Uncertainty Principle. Uncertainty is the product of a great deal of the most “irritable reaching after fact & reason” the world has ever seen, and has contributed to our most accurate physical theory to date. Heisenberg??s uncertainty, both the consequence and the cause of much “reaching after fact & reason,” is antithetical to Keats?...
...courage to call D.B. an idiot, and the two agree to compete in a problem set competition. Of course, no musical would be complete without a love story, and Dong delivers one between Steve and his Physics 16 classmate Christene Heisenberg (the fictional great-granddaughter of Werner Heisenberg, of Heisenberg??s uncertainty principle fame...