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Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.142.82
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 07:03 pm: | |
but then I am so it will be of no surprise to know that I watched a programme on the atom at 3.a.m. last night. 'Perhaps the most famous conference was the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," remarked "God does not play dice." Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do." (See Bohr-Einstein debates.) Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference Every morning Einstein would turn up with a question and every night Heisenberg would respond with a reply. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.142.82
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 07:20 pm: | |
Can't find the link to the programme but in that footage I saw Heisenberg looked across at Shrodinger and it was written all over his face...'well the shit has hit the fan now...' |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.199.240
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 08:28 pm: | |
I watched some footage of Brian Clough striking out at an abusive Nottingham Forest supporter. Another case of the shit hitting the fan. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.199.240
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 08:29 pm: | |
Seriously, I watched ATOM when it was originally screened last year: fascinating stuff. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.142.82
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 08:36 pm: | |
I can't even find it today :>(. I have no idea if it is accessible etc. The electrons on the Bohr tower were interesting. A little hard to understand though :>). |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.199.240
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 08:43 pm: | |
Does ya ead in, dunnit? |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.142.82
| Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 08:58 pm: | |
It does. |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 03:28 pm: | |
Bohr gets a bad press in the documentary Mark Everett made about his Dad. He apparently refused to even listen to anything Hugh Everett had to say and his brusque dismissal by one of his heroes led to a long bout of depression. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.142.82
| Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 03:36 pm: | |
Thanks Weber. Looks interesting... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7113098.stm |