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The only movies Niels Bohr liked were called Gun Fight at the Lazy G Ranch or The Lone Ranger and the Sioux Girl or something similar. He could never follow the plot, and was constantly asking us, to the great annoyance of the rest of the audience, questions like "Is that the sister of the cowboy who shot the Indian who tried to steal a herd of cattle belonging to her brother-in-law?"
— Jul 06, 2018 11:24AM
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Best-sellers like The Secret have made fantastical claims about the power of quantum physics and inspired knockoff books like Why Quantum Physicists Cannot Fail and Why Quantum Physicists Don't Get Fat. (I can attest, from personal experience, that both these claims are false).
— Jul 08, 2018 10:33AM
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"At the same time," said David Albert, "you have two wildly contradictory things going on. The 20th century outstripped every other century for the number of smart people interested in physics and working actively on it. That same century witnessed the longest period of psychotic denial of the deep logical problem right at the center of the whole project,"
— Jul 08, 2018 09:45AM
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(The theoretical physicist Reinhold Bertlmann is famous for always wearing socks of different colours. The image is taken from which according to Google Scholar has been cited over 200 times).
— Jul 08, 2018 04:52AM
(The theoretical physicist Reinhold Bertlmann is famous for always wearing socks of different colours. The image is taken from which according to Google Scholar has been cited over 200 times).
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"I told my wife, 'When I finish this thesis and get my doctorate, I'm going back to school to get a doctorate in physics'", Shimony recalled. "Any normal wife would have said, 'It's about time for you to get a job.' She didn't say that. She said 'If that's what you want to do, that's what you should do.' I thought it was wonderful. I told her, in Churchill's phrase, 'That was your finest hour'."
— Jul 08, 2018 03:17AM
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An extremely PC illustration of Bell's Theorem, where Gillian and Fatima, two employees of the California Gaming Board, investigate the complicated roulette wheels at Ronnie the Bear's new casino. They discover that his gambling establishment suffers from serious lack of locality, but we never find out if Ronnie gets his license approved. Too many loose ends here.
— Jul 07, 2018 10:01AM
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The RAF dispatched a high-altitude Mosquito bomber to bring Bohr from Sweden to Britain. The bomb bay was converted to carry Bohr, with an oxygen mask and a pair of headphones to allow the pilot to communicate with him. But the headphones were too small for Bohr's enormous head. Unable to hear the command to turn on his oxygen, he passed out. The pilot realised there was a problem and reduced height; Bohr survived.
— Jul 07, 2018 03:09AM
