By admin, 25 November, 2023

Wolfgang Pauli$$$ in the months before Heisenberg's paper on matrix mechanics pointed the way to a new quantum theory$$$ wrote to a friend$$$ "At the moment physics is again terribly confused. In any case$$$ it is too difficult for me$$$ and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics." That testimony is particularly impressive if contrasted with Pauli's words less than five months later: "Heisenberg's type of mechanics has again given me hope and joy in life.