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The guy presenting the topic called Erwin Schrödinger "Edwin", both in writing on his slides and verbally. I was bewildered to see a blunder of that magnitude
by maxnoe 4y ago
The guy presenting the topic called Erwin Schrödinger "Edwin", both in writing on his slides and verbally.
I was bewildered to see a blunder of that magnitude in the official nobel presentation...
- bowsamic 4y agoWhy is that a blunder of any important magnitude? As a physicist I do not think so. It's actually pretty common to make mistakes like that in physics. And physicists are not particularly careful about their presentations, even very important ones. We don't have the sense to care much about this things. "Official Nobel presentation" is still seen as "just a talk"
- maxnoe 4y agoNot the reaction I got from my colleagues, they were all just like "WTF, how can this happen?"
- alephu5 4y agoDid you add a typo as a joke?
- SiempreViernes 4y agoWere they all German Physicists? Leave Hans alone, he's chill.
- hwestiii 4y agoSomeone’s job in PR is to get the facts right in the press releases. Like referring to first American President as “Gerald Washington”
- bowsamic 4y agoWas there a PR person to vet this presentation?
- Nokinside 4y agoThere is even bigger mistake: >The Nobel Committee makes a common mistake in the press release, implying that Bell rules out hidden variables. It's only local hidden variables that are ruled out (absent superdeterminism). Bell was a big supporter of Bohmian non-local hidden variables! from Sean Carroll https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1577254806208798722 https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1577254806208798722
- lioeters 4y agoFrom another tweet of his: Bell on Bohm - Sheldon Goldstein - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~oldstein/papers/bb.pdf https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~oldstein/papers/bb.pdf