@maxplanckgesellschaft @MPI_ScienceOfLight In his memoirs, #heisenberg writes that he was staying in a pension in the 'Oberland', the part of the island up the steep cliff. Since there was not much distraction except the walks around the island and going for a swim on the nearby smaller island […]

It is probably not widely known that Heisenberg's starting question for his breakthrough was rather practical: Now that Bohr had given a prescription of calculating the frequencies of spectral lines how could you predict the intensities of these lines? In classical physics, these intensities […]

@futurebird @hayesstw The bit about boosting replies is also important because of how federation works. Someone who follows me and stumbles across my post, then clicks on it to read the threads, likely won't see your reply in the thread *at all* because, unless they or someone else on their […]