October 12, 2016 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
A much sought-after mathematical physicist in America
A much sought-after mathematical physicist in America
Excess men tend to remain both unskilled and under educated and
thereby unemployable and thus most likely to end up in the army (imagine a
mother with 6 boys in a hamlet in Russia or Poland or anywhere for that
matter).
They become the perfect cannon fodders for ambitious rulers, their
deaths carefully disguised as noble patriotism and martyrdom.
All throughout the sorry state of human history and civilization
this has been demonstrated adequately enough repeatedly and verifiably.
This is one of the papers on population and conflict.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Staveteig.pdf
The references listed in the end of this paper have their own
tales to tell.
So the Anna Karenina Principle states a very simple fact of life.
There are millions of ways to have the chaotic state or failure
but extremely low probabilistic way or ways to be successful or have order.
Speaking about probability of chaos and order, one can’t help
recalling two great men, the American Willard Gibbs and the Austrian Ludwig
Boltzmann (both were mathematical physicists).
They both showed mathematically that the second law of
thermodynamics or the “entropy law” is a statistical fact.
Which we can translate for nation states and societies that it far
more probable for them to be a failure than to be a success.
Hans Bethe was in a way running away from the nation that was
planning its own destruction by exterminating its greatest resource, the German
Jew intellectuals.
When Hans Bethe landed in America in 1935 he was already secured
as a faculty member of Cornell University and teamed up with M. Stanley Livingston, the co-inventor of cyclotron.
Now please try to understand the greatness of America and how it
valued intelligence.
Hans Bethe, a German migrant and a mere mathematical physicist was
approached or rather was poached by no less than 6 American Universities:
Columbia University
Princeton University
University of Rochester
Purdue University (state of Indiana)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Harvard University
You must remember that in 1930s, most nation states or the empires
of the world (including the Great Britain which was slowly beginning to fade
away) did not even have the infrastructure and capacity to exploit a mind like
that of Hans Bethe while in the United states there was felt a scarcity for top
class mathematical physicists.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or
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Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
Another great educator and teacher that I am aware of is Professor
Subhashish in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, he actually does and teaches real
mathematics and physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All
his books can be downloaded for free through this link.
For
entertainment may I suggest Kids Songs channel.
Ernest Lawrence and M. Stanley Livingston with their cyclotron at about the time when Hans Bethe arrived in America
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