tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post4327725095270957317..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Oppenheimer on EinsteinSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-87760622809099911312007-06-04T22:41:00.000-04:002007-06-04T22:41:00.000-04:00Hi Steve,Why didn’t Oppenheimer et al think of tur...Hi Steve,<BR/><BR/>Why didn’t Oppenheimer et al think of turning on quantum mechanics? Or put another way, why did it take so long for Hawking radiation to be discovered given all these alleged experts on gravity? Of course, in theoretical physics almost everything is obvious in hindsight. One can construct any number of heuristic arguments against the statement that all things inevitably fall Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448058464729483692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-90313811970642964812007-06-01T11:10:00.000-04:002007-06-01T11:10:00.000-04:00Show me a master of statistical mechanics and I'll...Show me a master of statistical mechanics and I'll show you a master physicist :)Dave Baconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506030153326411733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-10258971362463180432007-06-01T10:50:00.000-04:002007-06-01T10:50:00.000-04:00A., Thanks for your comment -- I completely agree....A., <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment -- I completely agree. <BR/><BR/>For some reason the post below doesn't come up high when you search my blog for Oppenheimer. In that post I made a few comments about Oppenheimer's pioneering work on black holes. Kip Thorne (who was a Wheeler student; Wheeler coined the term black hole in 1967) told me once that almost all the basic results about black holes Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-61168502527642889652007-06-01T10:10:00.000-04:002007-06-01T10:10:00.000-04:00Hi Steve,I just read the Oppenheimer piece on Eins...Hi Steve,<BR/><BR/>I just read the Oppenheimer piece on Einstein in its entirety and as I was reading I reminded myself that I must thank you for bringing this otherwise forgotten piece to the attention of a wider modern audience. The thought that went through my mind is why people would want to read Walter Isaacson if they could read J. Robert Oppenheimer. Indeed, why read the latest Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06448058464729483692noreply@blogger.com