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Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute in Copenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name (and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerous man. His friends and enemies agreed: Niels Bohr was more than the father of quantum mechanics - he was one of the most important figures of the 20th century. The Tony Award-winning Broadway play "Copenhagen" barely scratched the surface... Suspended in Language tells the complete story of Niels Bohr's amazing life, discoveries, and his pervasive influence on science, philosophy, and politics. Told in an engaging and accessible mixture of text and comics, it includes a full color supplement on how to teleport just like the pros do - and why you might not want to!
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David Vivier
reviewed Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped on November 05, 2015
Suspended in Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped
This book had a lot of fantastic moments, but they didn't add up to a great book. The storytelling is uneven -- at times impatient and not thorough enough, and at times going a bit overboard with detail. In my experience it doesn't ever take a solid shape (perhaps it is one of those substances that is part liquid and part solid depending on how it is being handled.) That said, I am glad I read it and appreciate the care given to drawing Bohr's social and intellectual communities and his fairness and willingness to be wrong on scientific questions while not backing down on his ethical beliefs.
Here are some bits of dialogue I enjoyed:
Schrodinger to Bohr: "Well Bohr, you surely must understand that the idea of quantum jumps leads to nonsense...After all, where is an electron while it's jumping?"
Bohr: "The Question has no meaning. You might as well ask what happens between the pictures in those 'comic strips' they print in American newspapers."
Bohr goes on to say "You see, you are not thinking, you are just being logical. It must not be forgotten that just because we cannot visualize them doesn't prove there are no quantum jumps. Our concepts which we base on direct experience do not apply."
Schrodinger: "I don't want to discuss the philosophy of forming concepts. I just want to know what happens in an atom." (p. 145)
I really appreciated this goodreads review:
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