Nobel laureate Weinberg (Ref. 7 of the English translation of the original paper by Heisenberg's paper) has written as follows:
‘If the reader is mystified at what Heisenberg was doing, he or she is not
alone. I have tried several times to read the paper that Heisenberg wrote on
returning from Heligoland, and, although I think I understand quantum mechanics,
I have never understood Heisenberg’s motivations for the mathematical
steps in his paper. Theoretical physicists in their most successful work tend
to play one of two roles: they are either sages or magicians....It is usually not
difficult to understand the papers of sage-physicists, but the papers of magicianphysicists
are often incomprehensible. In that sense, Heisenberg’s 1925 paper
was pure magic."
So, it is very difficult to understand the Uncertainty principle from original paper. The paper in the above link try to give the method that Heisenberg may have used.
So, it is very difficult to understand the Uncertainty principle from original paper. The paper in the above link try to give the method that Heisenberg may have used.
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