{"id":471,"date":"2002-11-25T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2002-11-25T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T14:30:35","slug":"copenhagen-interpretations-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen interpretations 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Saturday at a conference in Jesus college, organised by John Cornwell, on the subject of Werner Heisenberg&#8217;s war guilt and Michael Frayn&#8217;s play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0413724905\/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1\/202-2289303-6269463\">&#8220;Copenhagen&#8221;<\/a>, which deals with the subject. The day started with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adc-theatre.cam.ac.uk\/\">a rehearsed reading<\/a> of the entire play, which only has three actors, playing Heisenberg. Niels Bohr, and his wife, Margarethe Bohr, all talking together in the afterlife. They were absolutely splendid. I sat with them afterwards at lunch and said so. They said they had only had a day and a half of rehearsal, and were still wrestling with some of the pronunciation and the meanings of technical terms. Then one actor leant confidingly towards me and asked &#8220;Could you tell me one word I don&#8217;t understand. What is a quantum?&#8221; So I got to explain &#8220;quantum&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucidcafe.com\/library\/95oct\/nbohr.html\">Niels Bohr<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Saturday at a conference in Jesus college, organised by John Cornwell, on the subject of Werner Heisenberg&#8217;s war guilt and Michael Frayn&#8217;s play &#8220;Copenhagen&#8221;, which deals with the subject. The day started with a rehearsed reading of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}