Large Scale Uncertainty Principle and the Gamma Ray and Optical Limits

Until the statement of the small scale uncertainty principle by Heisenberg in 1927, modern physics held to the idea of a classical determinism, and the rejection of such determinism became a cause for dissent between Einstein (as a believer in a classical determinism) and Bohr and the other supporters of the quantum revolution. On the scale of atoms and elementary particles the effect of the uncertainty principle is very important. Because of the uncertainties existing at this level, a pict...