Personality and reputation

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The Pauli effect was named after his bizarre ability to break experimental equipment simply by being in the vicinity. Pauli himself was aware of his reputation, and was delighted whenever the Pauli effect manifested.

每次Pauli一出現, 身邊就會起碼有一樣實驗儀器無端端壞咗.

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His supposed remarks when meeting another leading physicist, Paul Ehrenfest, illustrates this notion of an arrogant Pauli. The two met at a conference for the first time. Ehrenfest, though never having met Pauli, was familiar with his papers, and was quite impressed with them. After a few minutes of conversation,

Ehrenfest remarked “I think I like your papers better than you,”

to which Pauli shot back “I think I like you better than your papers.”

The two became very good friends from then on.

你都好衰格, 但係你o既論文寫得幾好.

你都幾好人, 不過你o既論文都幾垃圾.

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— Wikipedia, Edited and Translated by Me

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2008.12.15 Monday

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Marvin, the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship’s robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold.

He was built as a prototype of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation’s GPP (Genuine People Personalities) technology.

Marvin is apparently afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a “brain the size of a planet” which he is seldom able to use. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin’s existence is that no task he could be given would occupy even the tiniest fraction of his vast intellect.

Marvin claims he is 50,000 times more intelligent than a human, (or 30 billion times more intelligent than a live mattress) though this is, if anything, a vast underestimation.

When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer, Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet’s military strategy, solve “all of the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except his own, three times over,” …

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— Wikipedia, edited by Me

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2008.11.30 Sunday

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我現在的物理系同學中,

一個是大學土木工程的畢業生. 後來還完成警校的訓練．

今天發現, 原來有一個是曾經執業過六年的醫生.

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2008.11.27 Thursday

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統計力學 (輕量級)

Mid term exam: 91

六十多人中, 我在十名內.
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統計力學 (重量級)

Mid term exam: 68

我尾三.

共有八個人修這科.

個個也是大內高手.

希望我也是.

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2008.11.24 Monday

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安全顧慮

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在美國 RHIC 開始實驗之時，包括內部的研究者與其他外部的一些科學家，曾擔心類似的實驗可能會引發理論上的一些災難，甚至摧毀地球或是整個宇宙：

* 創造出一個穩定的黑洞
* 創造出比一般物質更穩定的奇異物質, 吸收掉所有一般物質
* 創造出磁單極促成質子衰變
* 造成量子力學真空態的相變到另一個未知的相態

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— Wikipedia

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2008.11.20 Thursday

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Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

— Dilbert

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2008.11.17 Monday

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穿梭時空 探索宇宙

物理學家 工程師

神來之筆 扣人心弦

作家 畫家

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好想做作家.

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2008.10.25 Saturday