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In a way, a wise creator of a theory should be the one least fixated by it, as he knows all its potential weaknesses inside-out and the messy way it came into b
by nopinsight 17y ago
In a way, a wise creator of a theory should be the one least fixated by it, as he knows all its potential weaknesses inside-out and the messy way it came into being. From your description, Dirac seems to be one of those wise geniuses.
- teeja 17y agoI'm sure you're right. Plus, in the sciences, he knows how his colleagues minds work (and all the politics). Dirac probably kept mostly quiet about his doubts because Bohr, the Godfather of QM, thought QM was the Cat's Meow, which Schrodinger didn't. And Schrodinger knew that he pulled his famous equation out of a hat (not derived). Likewise with Feynman, who always repeated "nobody understands quantum mechanics." Too, because of the very competitive culture in the hard sciences, you don't talk about things that are poorly understood. Because if you make a mistake, you'll catch a lot of (friendly or unfriendly) ribbing later.