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Dirac went to FSU? Wha???

• pja 13y ago
  Maybe they bought his papers from the estate after he died?
• Little_Peter 13y ago
  Yes, he went to Florida State University in the dawn of his career. This explains the watermark.
  • Panoramix 13y ago
    Indeed, he went to Bristol and Cambridge, whence he developed his relativistic quantum theory. He relocated to Florida towards the end of his life. *edited the part where I assert OP was wrong.
    • Little_Peter 13y ago
      We are splitting hairs here. What is wrong? That his career dawned in Florida?
      • Panoramix 13y ago
        I'm sorry, I completely misread what you wrote!
      • glurgh 13y ago
        The 'dawn' part is wrong. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dawn http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dawn
      • gruseom 13y ago
        In English, "dawn" only occurs in the morning, so when used metaphorically it always refers to the advent of a thing. The word you're looking for is "twilight", which when used metaphorically means the end or decline of a thing. Thus Nietzsche's Götzen-Dämmerung is translated Twilight of the Idols. There's also the word "dusk", which is the opposite of "dawn", but it tends not to be used metaphorically.
• milhous 13y ago
  Some live footage of Dirac at FSU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWo010EsiYk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWo010EsiYk