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Heisenberg?

I love that Hank's street name is Heisenberg. I haven't seen a lot of discussion of the ironic and prophet choice of a name.
Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle is a landmark of quantum physics. In a sense it states that the position or location of a particle can never be absolutely determined no matter how carefully or accurately it is calculated.
For Hank, no matter how rigorous and careful he is, he can never be absolutely sure of the outcome.

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Hmmm. Didn't catch that Hank's street name was Heisenberg. I knew that Walt uses it, because I heard Tuco call him that.
The writers of this show go into so much careful detail.
Thanks for starting this thread...I didn't know that.

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Heisenberg also died of cancer of the kidneys and gall bladder.

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...oh and I am assuming you meant Walt not Hank.

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Of course it's Walt's Street name...My b.

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I think you are right to tie events in this TV series to the real events in Werner Heisenberg's life. He was lauded in his lifetime for his achievements, but he did it form his own country of Germany. He was a secondary school teacher. I hesitate to repeat his bio, please see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg

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I think you are right to tie events in this TV series to the real events in Werner Heisenberg's life. He was lauded in his lifetime for his achievements, but he did it form his own country of Germany. He was a secondary school teacher. I hesitate to repeat his bio, please see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg