It is fact of life that if we throw together many independent random thingies, they organize themselves in a normal, Gaussian distribution. The more thingies we throw into the quantum cauldron, the more precisely they resemble the Gauss curve. Quantum universe (we have no other) is like that: the more an outside observer (aka the computer) looks at the thingies, the more they become real and defined. My problem in trying to build aggregate distributions is the enormous amount of computer time it demands. But what is time?
I am too old and have no time to reflect on the nature of time: the thingies are distributed in nature not only in space but also along the axis of time. Two thingies cannot occupy the same point, so how we aggregate thingies that are not simultaneous? I see in TASE that fantastic changes minute to minute, second to second. Agreggating a thingie of a minute ago and another that exists NOW viciates the whole process. Only very high velocity computation may give me an approximate idea of the distribution. But thingies are rather "slow", I dont have enough "thingies" near to each other on the time axis, so I process them to make from each thingie a million thingies and then aggregate them. But it smells badly, I am trying to cheat reality. I am not intelligent enough to "decular" (my barrio's slang for working out a problem) this situation and make money with it. I only have to look at my portfolio to see that: I am losing 10% from my maximum. A lot, ergo, I must be a drunken moron. On the pic, the third from the right standing is Heidelberg, although there is some uncertainty about that.
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It is Heisenberg, and unless I am very much mistaken, on his right is Wofgang Pauli looking suitably distracted.
This is the Solvay photograph, if memory serves me correctly.
Only Koko is missing.
Anon.
It is Solvay of course and that blond young man may be and may be not Heiselberg.
I can also identify Max Planck, who looks rather wooden, and a radiant Marie Curie.
Perhaps K's daughter can fill in the rest?
Anon.
And to K's point above: these are the people - and the type of people - who brought about the modern world.
Anon.
I am afraid this photograph is unpublishable in contemporary media. It is clearly racist. It is a hate photograph. An apartheid photo. Only White (mostly Northern European) men and one woman. No Chinese, no Africans, no Arabs, no Australian Aborigines, no Hottentots at all. No Lesbians no Homosexuals (we know of), no Transgendered Persons, no Anarchists. Solvay would never finance such a non-diverse meeting today. Today the group is working with Korean EWHA Woman University, which is non European and female at the same time.
How would these Solvay people judge the modern world?
Anon.
Those physicists would be first astonished by current theories such as the multiverse and so on. later they would accept that they are the logical followings of their own wild ideas.
They would have no problems to melt into current physicist scene. The ethnic composition of those university circles has not changed, except a higher percentage of Chinese and Indians. But Indian mathematicians were always among them. The Chinese fill the second range, but are still scarce among those imagining those crazy imaginations. Solvay people would be astonished by the long peace and freedom and prosperity of our times.
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