[pics] BRAINS....

[Andrew_C]

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.

 

http://ginasiomental.com/016.jpg

 

Oh, can anyone see Schroedinger's cat? I can't; maybe it is dead...

Edited February 21, 2009 by Andrew_C

[SYNACK]

Oh, can anyone see Schroedinger's cat? I can't; maybe it is dead...

 

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.

[Andrew_C]

intellect comparable with the average population of today.

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?

Edited February 21, 2009 by Andrew_C

[DrPerceptron]

Is it bad that I have only heard of 3 of them?

 

Schroedinger, Einstein (duhh) and Marie Curie...

[torledo]

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.

[DrPerceptron]

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.

[witch]

I find myself constantly thinking of Planck

 

(I've heard of 7 of the people in the picture)

[SYNACK]

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?

 

Now your just being mean, Im sure the people in the photo were smater than that I 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)

 

Is it bad that I have only heard of 3 of them?

 

Schroedinger, Einstein (duhh) and Marie Curie...

 

I find myself constantly thinking of Planck

 

(I've heard of 7 of the people in the picture)

 

Admittedly I have an interest in science but off the top of my head:

 

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.

Edited February 21, 2009 by SYNACK

[torledo]

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.

 

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.