Your Friendly Neighborhood Science-George is heavily influenced by stand-up comics, late-night TV & Star Trek; and was practically raised by comicbook superheroes & Rocky Balboa.
Born in Pittsburgh (aka "Iceburgh"), PA
on Monday, December 21st, 1970.
In fact, such experimental verification work itself was proven worthy of a Nobel win just a few years ago (as was predicted by some wiseguy on Twitter), even further cementing our probabilistic view of reality.
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Look who correctly guessed - and on his first try - the Nobel Committee's Physics winners this year:
Bohr to retort: "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
Bohr promoted the Copenhagen Interpretation, that reality is fundamentally probabilistic, and this view has dominated the field ever since that conference - prevailing because it's supported by experimental evidence.
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Hey, Mastodonverse!
Recognize this famous photograph?
These 29 scientists (17 of whom were/became Nobel laureates) gathered together here for the 5th Solvay International Conference on Physics, which started 99 years ago today, running from October 24th to 29th back in 1927.
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