"When German atomic physicists learned they had failed" Topic

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For quite some time I had thought that Heisenberg hadn't really tried all that hard. 🙄
I guess it all depends on what one has read about it.

Irony: "Oh, do you think they have microphones planted?"
"Oh, no. They're not the Gestapo."
I would have thought that the default answer would have been "Yes."

Heisenberg was trusting and paranoid at the same time.

He was also uncertain.

Ah! But was it an uncertainty brought on by circumstances, of a principled uncertainty?

It is Schrodinger's Cat that gets my sympathy.Stuck in a box waiting to be killed, or released, as it is opened. I have so many boxes in the attic and always think there is a chance that one of the AFVs has self assembled over the years. But I dare not look………

The uncertainty is inherently principled.

I am constantly stepping on plancks. I'm not sure if that's even relatively relevant.

You should always step on Planck's Constant. It's a revolting little object. (Bonus points if you get the reference.) But let's avoid relativity. I may share a few relatives with Arthur Jermyn.

Regarding Schrödinger's Cat.
What a Teutonic thought experiment.

I fear this discussion is becoming a Bohr.

Only Constant I know was Napoleon's valet. Other constants are all very well, but their calculated value keeps changing. By definition they can't, but the latest thinking seems to question even that. Well for fundamental physical constants anyway, but what did Paul Dirac know?

I am sure I have many a Standard Model or two in the attic. Boxed and unloved

I do know something for certain- its not actually Mark Felton narrating that video.

Be fair to the Teutons, John. Haven't you ever had a cat who loved you so much he wouldn't let you read a book? You can get very conflicted.

Hmph. And Russians would have skipped the "thought" phase and gone straight to real cats. In France, all the real effort would go into designing a truly elegant two-part cage--which wouldn't work as advertised.