Followup To Bohr-Heisenberg Meeting

December writes "As a follow up to this slashdot article, "The family of Niels Bohr has decided to release all documents deposited at the Niels Bohr Archive, either written or dictated by Niels Bohr, pertaining specifically to the meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in September 1941. There are in all eleven documents. The decision has been made in order to avoid possible misunderstandings regarding the contents of the documents." See the Niels Bohr Archive at http://www.nba.nbi.dk/"

Comments

Schroedinger?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if he knew Schroedinger? That way, Germany could say it had a nuclear weapons programme, maybe in a box, possibly with a cat (alive or dead), but no one would know without looking.

If they knew Seuss, it'd be the Cat in the Hat in the Box - with the Nazi weapons programme... I'm not sure where the eggs and ham fit in though, can anyone clarify?

I've had waay too much coffee...

Evidently...

[pyrrho]

Bohr thought the sun would continue to rise in the east. Heinsenberg was said to be uncertain.

the meeting

[slickwillie]

They met in September 1941. I guess that means we can't know where they met.

Yes, I can

[A nonymous Coward]

I'm not sure where the eggs and ham fit in though, can anyone clarify?

Yes indeedy, I surely can. Thru the slot in the side to feed the cat. Otherwise the cat would die before anyone opened the box. You wouldn't want to make a mockery of the whole physics quantum thang by letting the cat starve while the theorists dithered about with blackboards and chalk, would you?

Re:Nothing new?

[Shadowlion]

give us a clear answer to what Bohr's opinion had been

Yeah, but you have to wonder what Heisenberg's opinion was. He was so hard to nail down sometimes, you know - the more you pressed him on it, the more undefined his opinions were.

;)

Where are those papers, anyways?

[aclarke]

In later news, The Niels Bohr family have commented that while they can be sure the bulk of the documents remain at the Niels Bohr Archive, the location of documents relating to Mr. Bohr's meeting with Heisenberg cannot be verified, as the documents do not seem to be in plain view at the moment.

Re:Nothing new?

[/ASCII]

What's worse though, is that because we know when the meeting took place we can't know where it actually happened. They might have gone to Hawaii. That would make both Bohr and Heissenberg a liar.

End this discussion?

[/ASCII]

It is a well known rule of Usenet that whenever someone mentions the Nazis, the discussion is over and nothing but flames can come afterward.

So this should die out pretty quickly, I guess.

Re:We all want to know ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Untill you read the Heisenberg documents, it will be neither exciting or Bohring!

Who is Borg? Who is Scheissenberg?

[Anonymous Coward]

What computer games did they create?

translation

[craw]

Sheesh, I think that the translations of the documents might be wrong. When I put one thru babblefish, I get...

Somebody set up us the bomb!

This is obviously a plea for the scientists to develop the A-bomb.

Re:It's irrelevant

[Col. Klink (retired)]

Fact #3: Col. Hogan convinced me that the heavy water the Nazis were temporarily storing at my Stalag was in fact water from the fountain of youth. I was stupid for drinking it...

No! No! Don't tell me...

[rnturn]

...and spoil it. I'm going to see Copenhagen tommorow.