Copenhagen
Starring Daniel Craig (James Bond) and Stephen Rea (The Crying Game)
A KCET Los Angeles/PBS production of a Play by Michael Frayn
Adapted by Director Howard Davies
2002
This play concerns a meeting between two pioneers of Atomic Physics, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr.
Bohr was the jewish teacher and employer of Heisenberg - who would 'invent' Quantum Mechanics and the Uncertainty Principle under his tutelage. Heisenberg would also head the German atomic program under Hitler, which did not invent the bomb. Bohr would flee occupied Denmark and join the Manhattan project in the U.S.
The play is a literary exploration of the uncertainty principle and quantum mechanics as they apply to a 1941 meeting of the two men, where they very definitely 'measure' each other.
The outcome of this conversation of inquiry would have many, many consequences, perhaps as many as any in history.
