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As the legendary quantum theorist Werner Heisenberg lay on his deathbed in 1974, he declared that when he met God, he anticipated asking two questions: “Why relativity? And please explain turbulence.” One version of this story includes a coda in which Heisenberg commented on what he expected to learn from God. “I really think,” he said, “that He may have an answer to the first question.”
Peter Sidell
As the legendary quantum theorist Werner Heisenberg lay on his deathbed in 1974, he declared that when he met God, he anticipated asking two questions: “Why relativity? And please explain turbulence.” One version of this story includes a coda in which Heisenberg commented on what he expected to learn from God. “I really think,” he said, “that He may have an answer to the first question.” Turbulence probably plays an important role in cardiovascular ease, in the Genesis of plaques in the walls of arteries.
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