I'm reading a PDF that fell off the back of a truck. Ahem ..... :-0
Now Heisenberg didn't initially know about matrices - believe it or not - and yet wound up inventing them along the way to his 'Matrix Mechanics'. Likewise Einstein had to be taught tensors before he could formulate GR. On the other hand Dirac just played with equations all day. The one that made him famous was the equation that predicted anti-matter, a couple of extra solutions coming out of the machinery as it were. He thought they were unphysical answers. Then Anderson finds an 'electron' track curving the wrong way in a magnetic field, a third guy connects the work of Dirac with Anderson's observation and it's Nobel time ....
Back then you could be a top notch physicist & get away without knowing too much math in advance ! I don't think that would work today, or put another way : you'd better have good intuition and pick up the rigour as you go. ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I'm reading a PDF that fell off the back of a truck. Ahem ..... :-0.
I'm usually pretty good with those "What's wrong with this picture" puzzles, but it took five+ minutes and several reads of this for the light to turn on between my ears. LOL Dirac I'm not.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
I'm reading a PDF that fell off the back of a truck. Ahem ..... :-0.
I'm usually pretty good with those "What's wrong with this picture" puzzles, but it took five+ minutes and several reads of this for the light to turn on between my ears. LOL Dirac I'm not.
One of the perks of winning the Nobel Prize is being able to nominate someone else ( in your field of study ) for the prize. For all his dislike of quantum mechanics Einstein still nominated Dirac and Heisenberg for the physics prize : for their work on quantum mechanics. But I guess that's what QM is like - you can love it and hate it with equal probability ! ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Gary Charpentier wrote:cecht
Indeed!
Not to mention it will cost
Not to mention it will cost about $50
I'm reading a PDF that fell
I'm reading a PDF that fell off the back of a truck. Ahem ..... :-0
Now Heisenberg didn't initially know about matrices - believe it or not - and yet wound up inventing them along the way to his 'Matrix Mechanics'. Likewise Einstein had to be taught tensors before he could formulate GR. On the other hand Dirac just played with equations all day. The one that made him famous was the equation that predicted anti-matter, a couple of extra solutions coming out of the machinery as it were. He thought they were unphysical answers. Then Anderson finds an 'electron' track curving the wrong way in a magnetic field, a third guy connects the work of Dirac with Anderson's observation and it's Nobel time ....
Back then you could be a top notch physicist & get away without knowing too much math in advance ! I don't think that would work today, or put another way : you'd better have good intuition and pick up the rigour as you go. ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote:I'm reading
I'm usually pretty good with those "What's wrong with this picture" puzzles, but it took five+ minutes and several reads of this for the light to turn on between my ears. LOL Dirac I'm not.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:Mike Hewson
LOL!!!
Pardon my idiom ....
Pardon my idiom .... ;-}
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Popping in for a WIN after 5
Popping in for a WIN after 5 days with no posts...
Seti Classic Final Total: 11446 WU.
RandyC wrote:Popping in for a
Great idea!!
In 1929, Dirac sailed from
In 1929, Dirac sailed from America to Japan with Werner Heisenberg.
During the trip, Heisenberg spent the evenings dancing while Dirac looked on, puzzled.
Eventually Dirac asked his friend why he danced.
Heisenberg replied: “Well, when there are nice girls it is a pleasure to dance.”
After thinking for five minutes, Dirac said: “But how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?”
One of the perks of winning
One of the perks of winning the Nobel Prize is being able to nominate someone else ( in your field of study ) for the prize. For all his dislike of quantum mechanics Einstein still nominated Dirac and Heisenberg for the physics prize : for their work on quantum mechanics. But I guess that's what QM is like - you can love it and hate it with equal probability ! ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal