Originally posted by BrilloPad
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Since when are they not understandable?
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I'm about a third of a way into the 800-odd pages now, and one of the most fascinating aspects of what I've read is that I now see how many things that I was taught about the structure of the nucleus were actually the result of intensive experimentation, deep insight, and flashes of genius, happening over many years.
It was a long time before such people as Bohr, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Fermi, and the surprisingly small number of others involved in nuclear physics in the first thirty to forty years of the last century even managed to work out that the nucleus was a cloud, rather than a lump... a dense cloud, granted, but still a cloud, not a lump.
The book is the best techy post ever - as Amazon seems to be short of supplies, I'd suggest hunting it down at a real-life bookshop. You'll love it
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