The surprising origins of wave-particle duality
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The Langlands programme, created by Robert Langlands in the 1960s and 1970s, studies connections between number theory and geometry. We can think of this as a Rosetta Stone for mathematics.
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Albert Einstein awarded the inaugural Einstein Prize to Kurt Gödel and Julian Schwinger during a presentation ceremony, c. 1951. Photographed by Alan Richards/Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, IAS, Princeton.
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One of the first examples of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ca 1974. Made by the research group of Richard Ernst in Zurich, acquired by Anil Kumar in July 1974. Read more...
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David Hahn (1976 - 2016), know as "Nuclear Boy Scout" was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen.
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Athanasius Kircher's (1602 - 1680) “Musical Ark” - The first algorithmically generated music came to us in the seventeenth century, courtesy of Kircher and his Arca musarithmica.
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During his days in Great Britain, Albert Einstein is shown with his secretary, Miss B. Howard, and Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson, seated with a shotgun. The three are seen outside a holiday hut on the moors provided by Locker-Lampson. At the time, it was rumored that Hitler had placed a $5,000 price on Einstein’s head. After spending the summer of 1933 in Britain, Einstein relocated permanently to the United States.
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Harry Potter and the Quantum Timebomb: Physics is war. War is Terrorism. Terrorism is Physics.
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Quantum Physics will be ridiculed by our children.
"Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli
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Rupert Sheldrake was slaughtered by peer review in late 1980s and through the 1990s. His work was deemed a danger to science. Academia has since only devolved into more hardened Skeksis.
