Uncertainty

[Toby G Levy]

from http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062844&device=

                   Years ago, the Princeton physicist John Wheeler began
to
                   wonder whether Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
might not have some
                   deep connection to Gödel's incompleteness theorem
(probably the second
                   most misunderstood discovery of the 20th century).
Both, after all, seem to
                   place inherent limits on what it is possible to know.
But such speculation
                   can be dangerous. "Well, one day [Wheeler recounts] I
was at the Institute
                   of Advanced Study, and I went to Gödel's office, and
there was Gödel. It
                   was winter and Gödel had an electric heater and had
his legs wrapped in a
                   blanket. I said, 'Professor Gödel, what connection do
you see between your
                   incompleteness theorem and Heisenberg's uncertainty
principle?' And
                   Gödel got angry and threw me out of his office."

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