Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr

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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
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As physics has functioned as a model…in our scientific thinking a ‘crisis’ in physics has repercussions on science as a whole and enlivens the great and eternal questions of philosophy. In physics these questions found one original solution in the Copenhagen School’s interpretation of quantum physics… When it comes to understanding the history of quantum physics it is impossible to exaggerate the role of Niels Bohr… His genius was one of combining practical skills with a strong social or ‘dialogical’ stance. … The social side can best be described as his liking for a person-to-person dialogue and his disregard for the conventional separation of the professional and personal domains: he loved to take his colleagues and students for long walks…, or to his summerhouse…etc. ‘to really get to know them’.
—Suzanne Gieser, The Innermost Kernel
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"[I]n their 1924 paper Bohr and his colleagues argued that the discovery of the “quantum of action” might require the abandonment of nothing less than the first law of thermodynamics: the conservation of energy. [...] Bohr’s 1924 paper offers a lens through which to look at how the quantum revolution unfolded."

https://physicsworld.com/a/when-bohr-got-it-wrong-the-impact-of-a-little-known-paper-on-the-development-of-quantum-theory/

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When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on the development of quantum theory – Physics World

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum mechanics

Physics World

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr

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New video by Physics Explained! Always fun with great explanations, an entertaining watch. In a comment under the vid, a valid caveat by "physicsboy787" about why the gravitation analogy fails, which is sadly not mentioned in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tGiwd_Zs00

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What determines the size of an atom?

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…❛❛ John Archibald Wheeler was a physicist’s #physicist. He never won a #NobelPrize, never became a household name, but to those in the know, he was a legend. He broke ground in many areas of #physics: #particle, #nuclear, #gravitational, #quantum. He studied under #NielsBohr, walked and talked with #AlbertEinstein ❜❜…

🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler-saw-the-tear-in-reality-20240925/ 25 Sep 2024
🔗 https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/113290877708668122 11 Oct 2024
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler

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John Wheeler Saw the Tear in Reality

Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all share the same version of them.

Quanta Magazine
Trying to bend my head around yet another forbidding scientific volume. #NielsBohr
‘Shut up and calculate’: how Einstein lost the battle to explain quantum reality

By suppressing questions they considered too ‘philosophical’, post-war physicists created an unquestioning orthodoxy that influences science to this day.