{"id":239942,"date":"2026-06-29T19:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/heisenberg-said-matter-is-made-of-forms-not-objects-plato-said-it-2300-years-earlier"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:10:19","slug":"heisenberg-said-matter-is-made-of-forms-not-objects-plato-said-it-2300-years-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/heisenberg-said-matter-is-made-of-forms-not-objects-plato-said-it-2300-years-earlier","title":{"rendered":"Heisenberg Said Matter Is Made of Forms, Not Objects \u2014 Plato Said It 2,300 Years Earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JROuoeVFDuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Werner Heisenberg (1901\u20131976) was one of the founders of quantum mechanics \u2014 author of the uncertainty principle (1927) and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was also among the most philosophically engaged physicists of the century. In his late teens he read Plato\u2019s Timaeus in the original Greek (his father was a professor of Greek), and the dialogue\u2019s central idea stayed with him: that the smallest constituents of matter are not material objects but mathematical forms.<\/p>\n<p>In Physics and Philosophy (1958), Heisenberg argued that modern physics \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Werner Heisenberg (1901\u20131976) was one of the founders of quantum mechanics \u2014 author of the uncertainty principle (1927) and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was also among the most philosophically engaged physicists of the century. In his late teens he read Plato\u2019s Timaeus in the original Greek (his father was a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}