Was the Moon time discrepancy to atomic clocks ever proven or disproven?
Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
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#12Please note that there also exist video lectures from Dirac on YT:
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#13Some great stories about Dirac's "unusual" personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality One of my favorite theologians, physicist-turned-Anglican-priest Dr. John Polkinghorne FRS, did his Ph.D in Dirac's group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne
"There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet".
Re: Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
#14Some great stories about Dirac's "unusual" personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality One of my favorite theologians, physicist-turned-Anglican-priest Dr. John Polkinghorne FRS, did his Ph.D in Dirac's group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne
A famous great anecdote about Dirac (and Bohr and Rutherford) was in Absolute Zero Gravity : -- Young Dirac arrived at Niels Bohr’s institute with a glowing recommendation from the great experimentalist Ernest Rutherford. A few months later, Bohr remarked to Rutherford that this marvelous Dirac hardly seemed so special: he said nothing and he did nothing. Legend has it that Rutherford replied with the following story…
Beautiful.
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#15Was the Moon time discrepancy to atomic clocks ever proven or disproven?
I'm pretty sure it's considered unproven about whether gravity is weakening over time, or that the passage of time is changing in any other way other than what General Relativity specifies, which is essentially an observer effect, and not a "change" in the strength of gravity itself or time.
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#16Paul Dirac looks and sounds a lot like my father's father, though he delivers his words faster and with more emotion. I almost never heard my grandfather speak.
Re: Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
#17Some great stories about Dirac's "unusual" personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality One of my favorite theologians, physicist-turned-Anglican-priest Dr. John Polkinghorne FRS, did his Ph.D in Dirac's group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne
The book "the strangest man" goes in depth about his life and how weird that guy was. No surprise a psychologist suggested me to read it while I talked about the possibility of being autistic. Of course you can't diagnose a dead person, but let's say it wouldn't have been surprising had he discovered to be nd
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#18Was the Moon time discrepancy to atomic clocks ever proven or disproven?
First I've heard of it. It's very safe to say that nothing ever came of any supposed discrepancy between physical (atomic) time and the time-related terms in Einstein's theories. Countless people doing science in countless places and contexts would have noticed any shenanigans along the lines of what they're discussing here.
Re: Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
#19Some great stories about Dirac's "unusual" personality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac#Personality One of my favorite theologians, physicist-turned-Anglican-priest Dr. John Polkinghorne FRS, did his Ph.D in Dirac's group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne
> 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked [Heisenberg]. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?'"
The difference between a theoretician and a scientist. Heisenberg was clearly the scientist.
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#20Oppenheimer once wrote a letter of recommendation for Richard Feynman and called him: "a second Dirac, only this time human."