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This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All (2016)
- eigenspace 8y agoI’ve often wondered if I’ll end up doing something similar one day. It’s kinda scary to think about how integral the word ‘physicist’ is to my personal identity.
- bobowzki 8y agoOur job is often an important part of our identity. I'm a doctor but work part time in electrical engineering. I'd be hard pressed to leave medicine completely and I suspect it's much because "I'm a doctor".
- okket 8y agoNot about Majorana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana#Disappearance_at_sea_and_suggested_explanations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana#Disappearance_... I really like the subtitle "Why Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design" much better than this SEO/clickbait title, also to avoid confusion.
- 8bitsrule 8y agoReminded me of Bourne's last line of the trilogy ... "Look at us. Look at what they make you give."
- telltruth 8y agoI would have loved this reporter to have dig to through counter arguments for the value of Fotini's ideas. Quantum physics is full of crackpots these days and people are churning out theories which have little connection to be relevant. It's obvious that many of Fotini's peers thought of her theory in this way.
- anonytrary 8y agoFun tangent: This website[0] generates random crackpot-y phrases using buzzwords from various fields (specifically from things that Deepak Chopra has said). If you play around with it long enough you'll stumble upon a randomly generated phrase about quantum reality, or some such gobbledegook. [0] http://wisdomofchopra.com/ http://wisdomofchopra.com/
- emmelaich 8y agoReminds me a little of the surfer physicist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi