Rotational speed of known thinkers
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2001 2:37 am
.. or "who is the philosopher, scientist, etc that's spinning the fastest in his grave, and what is his average RPM?". For persons not quite dead yet, future grave is also acceptable. Could this be our future energy source?
After careful consideration, I think my personal opinion is Heisenberg at about 4500 rotations per minute. The "runner ups" were Fermi at 4200 rpm and Schrödinger at 4000 rpm.
Motivation:
Heisenberg: His uncertainty principle, valid for all particles expressing wave-particle dualism, has been generalized to include politics, interhuman relations, etc.
Fermi: The thermodynamic laws and particularly the word "enthropy" (which is much too cool a word to be used in science - he should have used "semifreddo" instead
) have been used as motivation of the strangest things.
Schrödinger: Well, need I say more than "cat"?
After careful consideration, I think my personal opinion is Heisenberg at about 4500 rotations per minute. The "runner ups" were Fermi at 4200 rpm and Schrödinger at 4000 rpm.
Motivation:
Heisenberg: His uncertainty principle, valid for all particles expressing wave-particle dualism, has been generalized to include politics, interhuman relations, etc.
Fermi: The thermodynamic laws and particularly the word "enthropy" (which is much too cool a word to be used in science - he should have used "semifreddo" instead
) have been used as motivation of the strangest things.Schrödinger: Well, need I say more than "cat"?