Monday, March 13, 2006

Physics and sex

Seed: Getting Physical

Interesting article that (I assume) has its historical anecdotes correct. For example:

Remarkably, some physicists’ trysts seem to have actually led to physical insight: While once floundering on a problem, Erwin Schrödinger shacked up in an alpine villa for an extended holiday with “an old girlfriend” and, in the “late erotic outburst” that followed, produced the eponymous equation that would net him the Nobel.

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