Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Pauli's Pwn of Heisenberg

Annoyed by Heisenberg’s claims that modulo some details he had a wonderful unified theory (he didn’t), Pauli sent his friends a postcard containing a blank rectangle and the text “This is to show the world I can paint like Titian. Only technical details are missing.”

-- Peter Woit, "String Theory: An Evaluation"

Woit blogs here.

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