# When Bertolt Brecht looked into Heisenberg´s microscope

- Institution: CERN
- Department: ConCERNed for Humanity
- Taught by: Lukas Mairhofer, Andrej Peter, Karin Ernst, Lukas Arnold
- Year: 2013
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3002311)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
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In the talk, Lukas Mairhofer will discuss the interference between Brecht's theatre and quantum physics as well as its philosophical consequences.

The talk will be introduced by a short theatre play, quoting three scenes of Brecht's 'Life of Galileo', 'Fear and Misery of the Third Reich' and 'Exile Dialogues', which all are in relationship to physics and science philosophy.

In 1926, when the mathematical principles of Quantum mechanics had just been formulated, Bertolt Brecht compares the individual with the entities of modern physics: 'If one of my figures moves in contradictions, this is only because a person cannot be the same in two different moments. The continuous self is a myth. Man is a constantly disintegrating and reconstituting atom.'

The reference to quantum mechanics will be proven to be profound: Brecht seizes on the problem of causality in quantum mechanics to counter the claim of objective necessities…

## Lectures

1. [When Bertolt Brecht looked into Heisenberg´s microscope](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3002311/023f3eb5cddb), 1 h 5 min (CERN's player)