On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 12:34 PM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] > Though it might take some digging to find, there was an entertaining > lecture > given by Hans Bethe (in what looks like a nursing home) on quantum > mechanics. He departs from the main thread of the lecture at one point to > go > on a diatribe about how bad-faith actors continue to mystify what he sees > to > be directly calculable[ϡ]. It seems important to me to not confuse an > inability to understand some phenomena for a lack of imagination. > > [...] > > ϡ) The video once lived here: http://bethe.cornell.edu/video1_small.html > but > alas I cannot find another source. Here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oggC_xhkdJA Bethe talks briefly about the > wave-particle controversy and he talks about the controversy in terms of > power and authority. > The Bethe videos are linked on the front page of https://bethe.cornell.edu and they're very good. I especially liked the derivation of the uncertainty principle through the limitations on representing a free particle with a fourier series, done with no math worth mentioning. 8:06 in video 3. -- rec --
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