Post #2931125
2025-12-04 15:46 UTC
I guess the point here, if there is one, is that Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical,” which admonished the listener to “get physical,” was a forceful restatement of her grandfather’s objection to Einstein’s reticence over the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics. (5/n)
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@mcnees@mastodon.social 2025-12-04 15:47
In a very real sense, this public airing of a longstanding beef between the Born family and Einstein, might be regarded as the first physics diss track. (6/6)
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2025-12-04 16:07
@mcnees@mastodon.social OK, genuinely laughed out loud!
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@marshray@infosec.exchange 2025-12-05 12:43
@mcnees@mastodon.social I’d always wondered what the line “Let’s get horizontal” might mean, but clearly it refers to probability wave function collapse. Thanks for putting this in context.