Bohr-Einstein Debates
The Bohr-Einstein debates, now in convenient puppet form.
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I linked to this from my page (503 friends) on facebook.
Steve Schultz commented on my link:
“Is there a version with mimes? ;-)”
Jonathan Vos Post
Steve Schultz: I can’t say, out loud. But look — here I am trapped
in a Schrödinger’s Cat box. And here I am, walking against the Solar
Wind…
I think that video illustrates why the web should not have been invented.
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Stuffed animal puppets are any worse than wizards?
I’d like to see General Relativity, and n-Categories, video taught by stuffed animal wizards adapted from a John Baez script. Oh, yes!
That, Jonathan, is something you’ll never see. Not if I have anything to do with it.
Yes, stuffed animal puppets are worse than wizards. This requires no explanation.
John Baez is in the equivalent position of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien who specified in his will that Disney would never get the film rights to The Hobbit nor the Lord of the Rings. If the equivalence is what I think, then John Baez awaits his Peter Robert Jackson, who can adapt the unadaptable. And beware of an unauthorized/pirated paperback version. To continue with the analogy per the Tolkien Society’s web biography, This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics would almost become the Bible of the “Alternative Society.”
This development could produce mixed feelings in the author. On the one hand, he’d be extremely flattered, and to his amazement, become rather rich. On the other, recall that JRRT could only deplore those whose idea of a great trip was to ingest The Lord of the Rings and LSD simultaneously. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick had similar experiences with 2001- A Space Odyssey. Fans were causing increasing problems; both those who came to gawp at his house and those, especially from California who telephoned at 7 p.m. (their time - 3 a.m. his), to demand to know whether Frodo had succeeded or failed in the Quest, what was the preterite of Quenyan lanta-, or whether or not Balrogs had wings.
Fans would flood into Riverside demanding to know how to build a space whose fundamental group is the rational numbers, or what are the uncountable dimensional braid knot diagrams.
He would have to hire Deputy Wizards to chase them away. You can tell a Deputy Wizard by The n-Category Café insignia on their tall pointy hats.