[HN Gopher] When Wiener Met Einstein
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When Wiener Met Einstein
Author : turndown
Score : 17 points
Date : 2021-05-01 04:53 UTC (1 days ago)
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| avmich wrote:
| A nice recollection of some events in the spring of modern
| science. Russian revolution happened just recently, and Hitler
| didn't yet get to power, although a German magazine printed a
| list of "enemies of the German regime". Heisenberg is about to
| publish his paper, Marie Curie and Hendrik Lorentz - two-times
| Novel laureates - participate in intellectual cooperation
| committee, the large part of XX century - WWII, Hiroshima, moon
| landing, Cold War - are still ahead in the future.
| 1e-9 wrote:
| > He deplores the flooding of the literature by immature, idea-
| less papers, ...
|
| I doubt he would find things much improved in that regard today.
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