Sep 8, 2017
excerpt from Michael Frayn’s play “Copenhagen”, a fictional dialogue between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg:
We put man back at the center of the universe.
It starts with Einstein. He shows that measurement, on which the whole possibility of science depends - measurement is a human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space, from the one particular viewpoint of a possible observer.
Then, here in Copenhagen in those three years in the mid-twenties we discover that there is no precisely determinable objective universe. That the universe exists only as a series of approximations. Only within the limits determined by our relationship with it. Only through the understanding lodged inside the human head.