The demonstration of space quantization, carried out in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1922 by Otto Stern and Walther Gerlach, ranks among the dozen or so canonical experiments that ushered in the heroic age of quantum physics. Perhaps no other exp…That is, they did not conclude that spatial quantization is not a real effect after all (and definitively so). Instead “Stern and Gerlach made improvements in the apparatus, particularly in replacing a round beam slit by a rectangular one t…
Dudley Herschbach
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Herschbach appears only as a passing reference in these excerpts, which focus on the Stern-Gerlach experiment as a foundational moment in quantum physics demonstration. The readings invoke this canonical experiment to ground discussions of how empirical apparatus and methodological refinement generate observable effects—a principle relevant to the course's concern with how measurement technologies and experimental systems co-produce knowledge in computational and cybernetic contexts.
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