BREAKING BAD: THE UNCERTAINTY OF WALTER WHITE

Breaking Вad 35 56 THE UNCERTAINTY OF WALTER WHITE Breaking Bad is an American television drama series broadcast on cable channel AMC. It tells the story of Walter White, a struggling and underachieving chemistry genius turned high school teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. STAGE 3 In order to secure his family's financial future before he dies Walt decides to utilise his superior chemistry skills in order to manufacture and sell very high quality methamphetamine. N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine crystal meth The show's series thus plots the transformation of Walter White from good family man to ever-corrupting methamphetamine cook and drug kingpin. Good Bad Evil But it is not a simple transformation. In fact for much of the series Walt exists as the possibility of these two extremes. He is quite literally two different men. The same but different. WALTER WHITE HEISENBERG In fact in episode 6 of in season 1 Walt give's a name to his other self, and the name he chooses is Heisenberg. The choice is fitting.. ΔχΔρ > 2 Werner Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a Nobel Prize wining German theoretical physicist. He is best know for developing a mathematical principal that governs the measurements and observation of sub atomic particles, commonly referred to as the. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The Uncertainty Principle covers the ambiguity of sub atomic particles such as photons of light which behave both like waves and particles. Ww DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT SINGLE SLIT EXPERIMENT Light behaves like a wave when viewed through a double slit. Yet behaves like a particle when observed through a single slit. THE OBSERVER EFFECT. This duality and the changes that the act of observation has upon the phenomenon being observed, is know as the observer effect Like the Wave and the Particle for most of the series Walt exists as the possibility of two men simultaneously. Much of his internal conflict coming from how he chooses to see or observe himself. WAVE High School Chemisty Teacher Good Family Man PARTICLE Meth Cook Drug KingPin The way in which this internal conflict is represented through- out the series, (such as in the use of reflected image). As welI as the performance of Bryan Cranston as the dual natured Walter White/Heisenberg is what makes Breaking Bad such an exceptional series to watch. For more: Visit www.infobytes.tv/breakingbad infobytes.tv