Blimey. This thread took a very different academic direction overnight. I thought I was turning everyone on to particle physics and the LHC. Now it seems you're a bunch of management consultants, including Dr Dave. You around Swarbs? If you are, I'll show you mine
It did,they tried to make out I was thick and I proved them wrong.I'm not thick I'm a Liverpool fan..not a Man Who supporter.
Yep, I'm here RHC. Showed you mine last night! True, but then like you say management is so vast that it's impossible to do much more scratch the surface on a three year course. And you could say the same about any academic undergrad course imo - until you hit PhD level and start specialising you will never fully grasp the complexities of any science or arts subject. Ultimately all our course did was give us a frame through which to understand and interpret some of the concepts we encountered in our careers. And even then the practical process of management is often pretty far removed from the theory.
Morning Swarbs. Bet you enjoyed that result last night. In order: 1. Charles Darwin - Completely altered man's conception of his place in the universe. 2. Isaac Newton - so many contributions it's hard to list them all. 3. Paul Dirac - Proved the existence of anti-matter. What a concept. Special mentions for James Clark Maxwell, Albert Einstein, Nils Bohr, Watson and Crick (and the woman who's name I forget). Oh and of course Peter Higgs - if they find it! Mind you Feynmann was quality, and from what I've read by him and about him, I'd definitely have enjoyed going out for a pint with him! We should never have given penicillin away to the Yanks!
Yes Niels Bohr is another one of my favourites - have you heard the anecdote about the barometer question he was asked at school?
Theory and practice are indeed very strange bedfellows. By the time that you do reach the rareified air of academia you then begin to wonder if it was really worth all the time and effort. Good to see the threadreturning to some (in)sanity
I remember hearing a great quote once, can't remember from where (I may even have made it up!): "Ivory tower academia is all well and good...but somebody's gotta pay for that tower!"
Swarbs. No. Never read a Bohr biography. Do enlighten me. I can also recommend a very good book I've read recently called 'Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the nature of reality', by Manjit Kumar. If you've not read it, you should. Sorry Doc Dave. Management theory leaves me cold, but you can have a go at warming me up if you want to.
You are from Ireland. Why make such a hypocritical post? And yes, I'm from Northern Ireland, but I'm not ribbing fans for not being from my club's locality.
RHC, it must be something about being Scouse but you put in all the work and time and effort to get the award but then REFUSE to use the title. It just seems so meaninglessly arrogant to me - apart from Conclaves when you don't have to try and perch a mortar board on your head - but all that doffing gets on yer tits
Found it here: http://simon-losingmyfaith.blogspot.com/2009/08/niels-bohr-and-barometer.html I'm not sure if it's actually true, but it amuses me every time. Sorry mate, the only pensions I'm contributing to right now are for Medvedev and Putin
Constcrepe. Trust you to despoil a scienfific discussion! It's OK - I can take it like a man! Swarbs. That's quality and I can believe it's absolutely true. From that book I referred to, Bohr was that kind if bloke. So was Einstein!
Northern Irish here too, which county etc you from? Hard for the English ones to realise what supporting a football team is like over here.
County Down (wee village called Dromara, about 10 miles outside Lisburn) but rent out in Belfast and have done since I started Uni. Handier for work and there's a lot more to do. One of my housemates is from Carrick. The only local teams I'd follow would be Dromara (though I'm usually in Belfast on saturdays) and Ards because I used to live there as a kid. Ards are in a really bad state right now.
Rosalind Franklin is hugely underrated, without her work, the structure of DNA may not have been discovered for years after it did. Her X-ray crystallography work that was crucial in Watson and Crick's understanding of the double helix structure and may have even been a cause for her cancer that caused her death.
