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Frayn was attracted to the topic because it seemed to 'encapsulate something about the difficulty of knowing why people do what they do and there is a parallel between that and the impossibility that Heisenberg established in physics, about ever knowing everything about the behaviour of physical objects'. [11] The play explores various ...
Oct 10, 2014 · Everything in physics, or for that matter in biology, depends on this randomness at the heart of the universe. And it seems to be that one of the elements that you can’t predict is human ...
Sep 22, 2023 · That seems to me the basic situation of any living creature, but certainly of human beings, who are trying make sense of what they are seeing. So maybe what I’m doing is just an exaggeration, a ...
Feb 18, 2007 · Elsewhere, Frayn shows a shaky grasp of quantum measurement, entropy and the physics of time travel: when he writes that “a non-scientist (like myself) is a fool to trespass in this great palace ...
Frayn was attracted to the topic because it seemed to 'encapsulate something about the difficulty of knowing why people do what they do and there is a parallel between that and the impossibility that Heisenberg established in physics, about ever knowing everything about the behaviour of physical objects'. [11] The play explores various ...
Apr 11, 2012 · Author and playwright Michael Frayn explores the wellsprings of creativity through farce, philosophy and the history of science. His eclectic output ranges from non-fiction books such as The Human ...
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It was triggered by an international conference devoted to Frayn’s play held in September 2001, in Copenhagen, during which many possible perspectives both on the Bohr– Heisenberg meeting and on Frayn’s piece were raised.18 While the meeting was still under way, the Bohr family decided to release all of Bohr’s various draft letters to Heisenberg, which had been kept in the archives of ...
