I'm on and off this sub, so tell me if this is old news, but something struck me tonight. Most of us on this sub already know that the pseudonym "Heisenberg" was taken from Werner Heisenberg, a German theoretical physicist who worked on a number of projects, including research for nuclear weapons. The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle used to be all over this sub, along with the nuclear program.
I was watching Full Measure (s3e13), which has a cold-open of a younger Walt and Skyler checking out a house - the one they would eventually live in. We learn that, at this time, Walt was working for Sandia Labs in Albuquerque. Out of curiosity, I checked out what Sandia Labs does. They're a research and engineering facility for elements of nuclear weapons systems, which is a link to Werner Heisenberg's research. At this point in Walt's life, he was somewhere between Gray Matter and high school chemistry. Seems to me that this was around the time Walt's willpower started to crumble and he became complacent. He had a nice job and didn't want to settle on the house, but he did anyway. I think that Walt had this nickname in the back of his head for nearly two decades, ever since he did research, presumably, dealing with nuclear weapons elements at Sandia Labs. Just thought that this specific occupation had something to do with his street name.
Submitted November 22, 2019 at 10:10PM by RomeoAndRebecca https://ift.tt/37vTOrt
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