Physics 04 - Engrossing Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon
Physics 04 - Engrossing
On 9 November 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences voted to award Albert Einstein the previously reserved 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
On his journey home from delivering the acceptance speech in Sweden on July 11,1923, Einstein stopped by in Copenhagen to see his young friend Niels Bohr, who had won the Nobel for 1922. Bohr met him at the railway station to take him home. "We took the streetcar and talked so animatedly (about Quantum Mechanics) that we went much too far. We got off and traveled back, but again rode too far", Bohr recalled. "We rode to and fro and I can well imagine what the people thought about us."
But, neither seemed to mind, for the conversation was so engrossing.
"In all the history of human thought, there is no greater dialogue than that which took place over the years between Niels Bohr and Einstein " says John Wheeler who studied physics under Bohr
Over the years, the friendship between Einstein and Bohr grew into an intellectual entanglement that began with divergent views about Quantum Mechanics, but then expanded into related issues of science, knowledge and philosophy", writes Walter Isaacson, biographer of Einstein.
Not too many people can have such a fascinating experience. If we're fortunate enough, we should treasure it all of our lives! Many Thanks, Unni for sharing their passion!
Thank you Richard. Yes! They were passionate about their common interests…Physics. But they shared a passionate friendship too!
This is passionately, wonderful! I was totally drawn into the marvel of this happening. mean, you captured so much in this poem! thank you ever so much for the gift! !
True incident, Sandra. And truly passionate, both of them
The core of the dispute between Einstein and Bohr was about the fundamental heart of the very design of the cosmos.
Was everything in the universe predetermined? Or does everything occur at random?
The object of their discussions: Whether an objective reality existed even if we could never observe it? Were there laws that restored strict causality to phenomena that seemed inherently random?
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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"No more profound intellectual debate (than that between Einstein and Bohr) has ever been conducted" wrote C.P. Snow, the great social philosopher.