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About LinkBacksThere must be enough brainpower in this photo to cause an intellectual black-hole. Even if some of those photographed disliked the very idea of the black hole.
Oh, can anyone see Schroedinger's cat? I can't; maybe it is dead...
There must be enough brainpower in this photo to cause an intellectual black-hole. Even if some of those photographed disliked the very idea of the black hole.
Oh, can anyone see Schroedinger's cat? I can't; maybe it is dead...
Last edited by Andrew_C; 21st February 2009 at 05:57 PM.
Its probably still stached safely (or not) in its box. This crowd would definitely be extremely high grade zombie food. Probably high quality enough to furnish a large mob of zombies with intelect comparible with the average population of today.Originally Posted by Andrew_C
More like the total IQ of a large country (between Canada and Mexico) seen in photo of 29 people. OK, I've an interest in physics / cosmology, but I know of 11 of these people, and the picture must be best part of 80 years old.
Is it the famous Copenhagen conference?
Last edited by Andrew_C; 21st February 2009 at 07:30 PM.
Is it bad that I have only heard of 3 of them?
Schroedinger, Einstein (duhh) and Marie Curie...
in a word. yes.
but not as bad as not knowing what a slide rule is.
I'm not going to loose any sleep over either of those things.
I was never a keen scientist, I have the occasional interest, nothing warranting worshipping old men, nor am I old enough to pre-date the advent of a worthy scientific calculator, hence no requirement for a slide-rule.
I find myself constantly thinking of Planck
(I've heard of 7 of the people in the picture)
Now your just being mean, Im sure the people in the photo were smater than thatI was talking about a particularly large mob of zombies.
It looks like this was here File:Solvay conference 1927.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics, Brussels, 1927)
Admittedly I have an interest in science but off the top of my head:I find myself constantly thinking of Planck
(I've heard of 7 of the people in the picture)
Piccard - Explorer, high altitude ballons and first deep sea subs - Basis of ST:TNG captins name and heritage
Schrödinger - Quantum state superpositions
Heisenberg - Heisenberg uncertainty principal
Bragg - DNA
de Broglie - wave theory, light etc.
Bohr - Bohr model of the atom
Planck - the Planck constant
Curie - Radiation
Einstein - General realitivity
It looks like the wikipedia photo has links to all of the people in question explaining their contributions.
Last edited by SYNACK; 21st February 2009 at 11:53 PM.
oh i get it now, your first post was a rhetorical question...
btw, the slide rule predates my school experience aswell, but the reason i know what it is is because as a word/term it's entered into our common language or vernacular.
or atleast i thought it had.
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