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I believe this has come through before. It's an old, but
good, story,
but I don't think that it had anything to do with Bohr. In the first
place, that wasn't Bohr's style. While Bohr was noted to have a good
sense of humor, he was a serious student and it isn't likely that he
would have played those kind of games with his professors, whom he
respected greatly and who would not have been amused in that day and
age. furthermore, if it were true and as widely known as making a
joke about it would imply, it would almost certainly be repeated in
one or more of his many biographies, and I do not think that it is.
It's a good story, and it makes some important points about "out of
the box" thinking, and I like to tell it to my physics
classes, but I
don't think Bohr was the student.
Hugh
Hugh Haskell
<mailto://hhaskell@mindspring.com>
Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to,
Windows because they
have to..
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