Why heisenberg

The name of Walt's alter ego came from Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist known as a pioneer of quantum mechanics. As a chemist, Walt was highly educated when it came to historical figures in various fields of science and mathematics. Heisenberg was born in and lived until the age of 74 before dying from cancer.

It's possible that Walt felt a connection to the man due to his recent diagnosis. More than likely, he used the name and the altered look as something to hide behind as a way to cope with his own actions. Some fans, however, have been outspoken at the notion that Walt was the embodiment of Heisenberg 's famous uncertainty principle.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle stated in its most simple form that the position and momentum of an object cannot be measured simultaneously. In other words, if one property is known, other important properties will remain uncertain.

A similar type of uncertainty surrounded Walt throughout Breaking Bad. When Walt found momentum as a drug lord, his role as a husband and father was left uncertain or vice versa. Without being able to measure his mindset, it became more difficult to predict his actions. Heisenberg's principle also claimed that observation could influence the subject, preventing a full analysis.

But as it happens, his cancer appears to be in remission, at least temporarily. His rationale morphs into pure selfishness beyond the money, a need for ego fulfillment to stay on as top dog in a drug underworld for its own sake, and ruthlessly eliminating those who threaten his position. I am the one who knocks. Walt himself kills other criminals by strangling, shooting, running over, blowing up or poisoning his victims to keep his cartel afloat.

It is Fring — who owns a chicken fast food chain as a front for his drug dealing — who attracts Walt into even bigger money. Fring unveils a large, new, clean meth factory the kingpin built, backed by a German company, underneath an industrial laundry facility.

There, with the best equipment, Walt dons a hazmat suit and mask and methodically churns out large batches of crushed meth, stored in plastic file boxes. The ever-determined and deceptive Walt cajoles his wife Skyler Anna Gunn to launder his drug money through a car wash they buy.

He puts the cash in barrels and buries them in the desert. Fast forward: Walt convinces a disabled former drug mobster and enemy of Fring to be a suicide bomber, killing Fring.

But it comes crashing down for Walt and Skyler. The long-clueless Hank finally figures out Walt is Heisenberg.

Hank tries and fails to convince Skyler to betray Walt. I don't claim to fully understand this by any means, but here's what I gather: It's impossible to exactly measure both the position and the speed of a particle, because to measure the position, you'd have change the particle's speed, and to measure the speed, you'd have to affect its position.

The Principle is also sometimes loosely interpreted as "we cannot know the present with enough precision in order to predict the future with certainty. Better call Saul. You can't affect one of them without affecting the other. As the series has progressed, every time our master cook and his sous-chef try to part ways, they're brought back together, both willingly and unwillingly.

Kind of like magnets, bitch! Speaking of which, Heisenberg is also the man who solved the mystery of ferromagnetism, or why certain materials become magnets. During the years leading up to WWII, the Nazis considered Heisenberg suspicious, even publicly considering sending the man they labeled a "white Jew" to a concentration camp.

He was spared, but certainly not for his genius. It turned out that Heisenberg's mother's family was friendly with Heinrich Himmler's family, so the physicist wrote a personal letter to the SS chief to request that the Nazis lay off. They did, and they ended up being quite interested when Heisenberg became one of Germany's top nuclear research leaders a few years later.

Some believe that Heisenberg deliberately sabotaged his findings so the Nazis wouldn't be able to harness nuclear power; others think his research was simply unsuccessful.