NEW POST: My thoughts on Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, and the Heisenberg-Bohr conversation:http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/02/26/historical-thoughts-michael-frayns-copenhagen/ …
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@wellerstein@GWilliamThomas It says something about academia today that we favor interest over truth.
@gabridli @GWilliamThomas And "truth," in this case, is pretty elusive, in any case. We are talking about plausibility of interpretations.
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@wellerstein@GWilliamThomas I agree with your second sentence.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein@GWilliamThomas I am neither relativist nor populist. I must be some sort of historical dinosaur. -
@gabridli@wellerstein Now Gabriel, Alex is nobody's idea of a relativist. -
@GWilliamThomas@wellerstein I hope not. Yes, we'll never know what Heisenberg said to Bohr. But that's not the point. -
@gabridli@wellerstein I'm with Alex here. The play works as meditation on morality and memory, and now many know about Bohr and Heisenberg. -
@gabridli@wellerstein Maybe it gave too much weight to WH-saboteur interpretation, but who leaves the play thinking that's true? -
@GWilliamThomas@wellerstein For top-notch scholars you two are remarkably optimistic. -
@GWilliamThomas@wellerstein Let's hope that Alex's blog and my "spirited responses" generate public interest. But I doubt it.
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