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Originally Posted by Steven A Colyer

Me too, and Wolfgang Pauli had a funnier sense of humor yet! What follows is my favorite humorous Physics anecdote, from the Wiki entry on the greatest English Theoretical Physicist of the 20th century, Paul Dirac:

Werner Heisenberg recollected a friendly conversation among young participants at the 1927 Solvay Conference about Einstein and Planck's views on religion. Wolfgang Pauli, Heisenberg and Dirac took part in it. Dirac's contribution was a poignant and clear criticism of the

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Originally Posted by Steven A Colyer

Nimit, I forget, sorry. It was from one of my favorite books on Physics. They're all good.

- The Quantum World by Kenneth Ford
- The Age of Entanglement by Louisa Gilder <=== most likely candidate, wonderful book
- Lisa Randell's book I forget its name
- Facts and Mysteries in Particle Physics by Martinus Veltman

@ MJA - You bet your sweet bippy Quantum Physics and all Physics has spawned plenty of Philosophy. Relativity turned the 1920's into a sexfest

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Originally Posted by Steven A Colyer

Fine Nimit, but you and Genz may be wrong, and I may be wrong, and all 7 billion people on the planet and the 12 billion who have ever lived in the last 200,000 years may be wrong as well, because whatever "space" or "nothingness" is, it may be something our limited homo sapiens brains can't wrap our heads around, ever, so we may never know. Shrug.

I'm not big on defeatest attitudes though, and that's definitely a defeatist attitude, so I/we/you try. Why not? It

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And finally, when we hear the word ‘energy’, we all have an intuitive idea about what this word means, but it remains ambiguous, overused and undefined. Please don’t say ‘energy is equal to mass times C squared’, or mC squared is the maximum kinetic ‘energy’ of some mass ‘m’. Chemical energy, light energy, electric energy all have an intuitive meaning to each of us. But ‘energy’ is a made up word to describe something we really don’t understand. I really wish the word ‘energy’ could be removed from ...