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Re: electrodynamic stability?

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

Pictures are spectacular but I am not impressed by the form of
writing. On the other hand I heard that N. Bohr was a very poor
communicator.


One of the more humorous sources of this notion of Bohr as a
"poor communicator" lies within Wheeler and Zurek's classic
compendium "Quantum Theory and Measurement." Bohr's 1935 response
to the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper is reproduced in
Wheeler's book, and the two next-to-last pages are interchanged.
It is a standing joke that Bohr is so little understood that the
paper is referenced without knowledge of the interchange of
pages, presumably because he is so poorly understood anyway.

Personally, though I have many disagreements with Bohr --
especially in his philosophical musings -- I find a great deal of
clarity and precision of thought in Bohr's writings.

--
Stephen
sjs@compbio.caltech.edu

Ignorance is just a placeholder for knowledge.

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