A centennial reappraisal of Heisenberg’s Quantum Mechanics with a perspective on Einstein’s Quantum Riddle.
Abstract
Heisenberg's breakthrough in his July 1925 paper that set in motion the development of Quantum Mechanics through subsequent papers by Born, Jordan, Heisenberg and also Dirac (from 1925 to 1927) is reexamined through a modern lens. In this paper, we shall discuss some new perspectives on (i) what could be the guiding intuitions for his discoveries and (ii) the origin of the Born-Jordan-Heisenberg canonical quantization rule. From this vantage point we may get an insight into Einstein's Quantum Riddle (Lande1974,Sommerfeld1918,Born1926) and a possible glimpse of what might come next after the last 100 years of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Biofield Effects and Biophysics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
- Publisher
- WORLD SCIENTIFIC
- Pages
- 79–113
- Publication date
- 1 July 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter