Heidegger and Heisenberg: Is alethia another word for quantum theory?

The Germans. They might be the most intelligent race in the history of the world, or at least were up until the second world war. Case in point: Werner Heisenberg and Martin Heidegger. One is the leader of the quantum revolution with his matrix mechanics and uncertainty principle, while the other is one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Both totally challenged our thoughts about reality and both need tons of work in fully understanding the significance of their thoughts. Let me just scratch the surface with a juxtaposition of two related ideas of these two men.

Martin Heidegger, author of Being and Time changed the way Continental philosophy works by his concept of truth and being. Basically as I read him, his claim is that philosophy from Aristotle (and maybe Plato) onward has made a huge mistake: it has focused on beings rather than Being. What does that mean? Heidegger said we are all involved in a "forgetfulness of being", that we don't really understand reality because we look at beings (like hammers, forks, etc.) rather than Being (that thing which is undergirding reality). He calls this Being Dasein (lit. "there being"). Crazy. Heidegger maintains that Being is not something immediately available, but rather Being is about prescence and "disclosedness." Heidegger uses the Greek word alethia to describe reality - a reality that is as much about unveiling as veiling, unconcealing as concealing. Reality is mediated to us by Being, everytime we examine reality some things are disclosed to us (made manifest) but other things are not (hiddeness). If we focus just on the beings themselves (the hammer itself) we are only seeing part of the show - the disclosed part. But Heidegger says truth and reality are far more complicated, there is so much undisclosed or hidden, which gives as much meaning to reality as what is disclosed. Reality might be seen like a vending machine. Heidegger says that most of our thinking has been focused on the individual candy bars (different as they may be) themselves, whereas there is a mechanism that is "revealing" those candy bars: the vending machine itself. Not a perfect illustration, but gets to the point: there is something behind each individual beings, and all thought since Plato has forgot to take into account this Being - the veiling and unveiling of reality.

Now admittingly this doesn't make a whole lot of sense on the outset. It sounds ridiculously crazy and certainly doesn't have the mathematical rigour of analytic philosophy (Russel et al.). Or does it? I think this might be where Heisenberg comes along. Quantum mechanics says something just as ridiculous to the mind in positing the theory of wave function collapse. Example: an electron can be in different energy states in an atom, ground state, first excited state, second excited state, etc. This is high school chemistry. Up until quantum it was thought that if you had the power to examine an atom, we could just look and find which exicted state the electron was in. It has to be in one and only one, right? Okay. Quantum throws a gigantic spanner in the works. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that we can't know exactly which one it is in (its position or velocity independently) but not because our measurement changes one or the other (that is the standard idea - hitting the electron with light will knock it around, changing one or the other) but becase until we look at the atom, the electron is in all energy states at once! It is literally in a number of states, called superposition, until we make a measurement (what that means is a doctroal thesis in itself) and then one of the states (ground state for example) is "acutalized" or "revealed" and the others vanish. This is what physicists have been saying for the past fifty years, even though it doesn't make much sense - and they have experimental evidence to back this craziness up. Reality is a lot more complex than we ever imagined.

So here is the link. Is it possible that this "disclosedness" that Heidegger is talking about is the same "collapsing of the wave function" that Heisenberg is talking about? Does Heisenberg provide Heidegger with the mathematical formalism for alethia and Dasein? Does Heidegger provide Heisenberg with a philosophical framework in which to describe these discoveries? Heisenberg's Physics and Philsophy might be best summed up by "Platonism won" and it seems to me that he Heidegger might give us a glimpse of how that makes sense. Being is more than just individual objects, it is about the Being behind those observations, the "revealing" which is going on. What is this Being? How does it relate to the Christian conception of the Triune God whom reveals Himself and yet hides Himself (cf. Isaiah 45:15)? More to say about that later.