Re: Libro di Otto Frisch, un aneddoto con Einstein e Landau

From: Giorgio Pastore <pastgio_at_units.it>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 11:59:01 +0200

Il 06/04/22 11:25, Elio Fabri ha scritto:
....
> Giorgio Pastore ha scritto:
> > Ho il libro di Frisch nella versione inglese "What Little I
> > Remember".
> > La storia viene presentata come almeno di seconda mano (Frisch
> > scrive "Another story (I don't know who told me this one)....".
> > Per cui diventa difficile verificarla nei dettagli.
> Sarebbe però utile sapere se Frisch riporta i dettagli come li
> racconta il tizio su facebook.

Riporto il capoverso completo dal libro di Frisch:

"Another story (I don’t know who told me this one) relates that Einstein
once gave a talk on some new idea of his at a meeting of the German
Physical Society in a town now in East Germany. After he had spoken and
the chairman had respectfully invited questions a young man got up at
the back of the hall and started in bad German and a most surprising
manner. He said something like ‘What Professor Einstein has told us is
not so stupid. But the second equation does not strictly follow from the
first. It needs an assumption, which is not proved, and moreover it is
not invariant the way it should be...’ Everyone in the hall had turned
round and was staring at the bold young man. Except Einstein; he was
facing the blackboard and thinking. After a minute he turned round and
said ‘What the young man in the back has said is perfectly correct; you
can forget everything I have told you today!’ By the way, the young man
was Lev Davidovich Landau, who later became the foremost theoretical
physicist of the Soviet Union."

Sulla veridicità della storia ho già espresso il mio punto di vista. Che
sia impossibile che un fisico di prima grandezza possa prendere
cantonate in un seminario invece non sono così sicuro. Ne ho viste e
sentite di tutti i colori. Piuttosto, l'aspetto che trovo improbabile è
che in pochi minuti l'autore dello strafalcione lo riconosca e ammetta
di aver sbagliato.

Giorgio
Received on Wed Apr 06 2022 - 11:59:01 CEST

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