Kabbalah and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

Abstract

Evidence is adduced from the works of Rabbis Shimon Bar Yochai (c. 100-160 CE), Yitzhak Luria (1534-1572) and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746), that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle (1927), a pillar of quantum mechanics, is conceptually similar if not identical to a Kabbalistic construct known as the Radla (Unknowable Head). Homologies are demonstrated as they relate to the fabric of reality, the intrinsic incomprehensibility and paradoxical nature of the universe, the translation of indeterminacy into experiential reality, worlds in potentia, and the grand scale unicity of the universe. Possible implications of these homologies for modern physics, human knowledge boundaries, free will and prophecy are discussed.