When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:

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Astrophysicist Janna Levin discusses three examples of constraints in science, and how they ultimately led to massive breakthroughs in physics and mathematics.

Abiding by the speed of light caused Albert Einstein to begin his pursuit into the theory of relativity, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle planted the seed for quantum mechanics, and Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorem led directly to the invention of computers and artificial intelligence.

We often think of constraints as impenetrable barriers that cannot be broken. However, these very constraints have the potential to inspire new ways of thinking and revolutionize the world as we know it.

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