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…fered from their differing positions during the war. Stern, like Bohr, was Jewish and was forced to emigrate. Gerlach, like Heisenberg, remained in Germany during the war. And like Heisenberg, Gerlach played a major role in wartime efforts …
Werner Heisenberg
scientist · 5 mentions across 4 readings
In this course
Heisenberg appears primarily as a historical figure whose wartime work on nuclear weapons and his decision to remain in Nazi Germany establish a key tension between scientific innovation and moral complicity that the course uses to examine how systems of knowledge production become entangled with state power and ideology. The readings invoke him alongside Stern and Gerlach to explore how the same physics that enabled quantum breakthroughs also enabled destructive technologies, and how scientific apparatus themselves (like the Stern-Gerlach experiment) become charged with both epistemological and political significance. His presence in the seminar suggests that understanding AI and cybernetics requires confronting how foundational scientific frameworks carry embedded choices about what can be known and controlled.
Mentioned in 4 readings
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