A story about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin … I recall from Jungk’s book https://www.amazon.com/Brighter-than-Thousand-Suns-Scientists/dp/0156141507 … about what happens when you make a mistake with multiplicative processes:
-
-
Replying to @EmanuelDerman
The way Jungk describes the 20s in Gottingen as an idyllic physics heaven, I wonder if it was really like that or he was just a really good wordsmith
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @EmanuelDerman
Do you recommend an equivalent book that describes the two decades post ww2?
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @abhinavcurious
Not exactly but having been a physicist I found this very very good and accuratehttps://www.amazon.com/Second-Creation-Revolution-Twentieth-Century-Physics/dp/0813521777 …
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
Replying to @EmanuelDerman @abhinavcurious
It is indeed superb.
4:40 PM - 2 Apr 2020
0 replies
0 retweets
0 likes
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.