Physics and Beyond "'Do you see whales, Heisenberg?', 'Yes, I see only whales, but I hope they are only big waves.'", is one of humorous scenes when the author, Bohr and other friends were sailing in a dark night. The book provides a first-hand account about how science is done and how quantum physics, especially the Copenhagen interpretation, emerged. "Nobody can reproduce these conversations verbatim, but I believe that the spirit of what the people said, and how they did, is conserved," the author tries to explain in the preface. Many believe that the golden years of physics around 1925, when "even small
Heisenberg group unitary operator of formula_103 that commutes with them is an formula_121 multiplier. But commuting with translations implies that the multiplier is constant. A version of the Stone–von Neumann theorem, proved by George Mackey, holds for the Heisenberg group formula_113. The Fourier transform is the unique intertwiner between the representations of formula_103 and formula_124. See the discussion at Stone–von Neumann theorem#Relation to the Fourier transform for details. Heisenberg group In mathematics, the Heisenberg group formula_1, named after Werner Heisenberg, is the group of 3×3 upper triangular matrices of the form under the operation of matrix multiplication. Elements "a, b" and "c"