A Summary of the Book, Copenhagen

As I went through the isles of the book store, grabbing the text books that was required for my classes, I stopped in the ASC isle, located the two books I needed. One of the books was titled “Copenhagen”, by the size of the book, I determined it was a short reading required of the class. Having reading books galore in my lifetime, I tend to judge books occasionally by their cover. I glanced at the Copenhagen book, and really didn’t understand the context behind the picture on the front. So I turned the book to the back to read the short excerpt provided by most reading books, and came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to like the book but I will get over it.

My ASC Introduction to University Life class was told we would have to read the book and our midterm will be over the reading. What immediately came to mind upon she noting that was “How are we suppose to read a play by ourselves?” All through out high school we always read plays together as a class, we were a unity when it came to reading plays and that made it so much more fun when everyone was a part. As I set one day trying to read the book, I felt as if I was schizophrenic trying to act the part of three characters and still remember what I read at the same time.

I would have t o say the book was very out of the ordinary after reading it all in one day, but at the same time I feel as though the book was completely over rated and gone about the wrong way. I think we should of have had class discussions on it, along with questions to help us along with it. We were not transitioned in the right way to start reading a mostly science influenced play by ourselves. In my opinion I think it wasn’t a difficult text to read, but it came off difficult, because of the languag...

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...e government on whether or not to go ahead or not with the use of the nuclear weapons. It was eating at Heisenberg, on what he will decide to tell the government when they approach him with the anxious question. Heisenberg also wanted to know from Bohr’s if there was an Allied Nuclear Programme.

There were three major events that took place in Copenhagen and they all involved Heisenberg. One event was when Heisenberg completed his doctorate, and decides to come Copenhagen in 1924 in order to research the quantum mechanics with the other character Niels Bohr. The second event was when Heisenberg goes to Copenhagen to visit Bohr, and they have a discussion which jeopardizes their friendship. The last major event was when Heisenberg returned to Copenhagen after his nation was defeated and readdresses the issues that had come up in his and Bohr’s previous encounter.