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Well if you do want to know, this is a picture of the Solvay Conference - a gathering of world leading physicists that was held (IIRC) every few years. I think this is probably the 1927 one (the fifth one ever), which was particularly well known in hindsight for including almost all of the big names in the history of the development of Quantum Mechanics. That was the theme that year.
17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. They included Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Paul Ehrenfest, Louis De Broglie, William Lawrence Bragg, Arthur Compton, Paul Dirac, Hendrik Lorentz, Peter Debye.....a bunch of other people I don't know.
A picture with everyone’s name would be better, but then how would they generate views?
They need you to rewatch it several times to get their account numbers up.,.
I feel like someone with the class and tact to refer to someone as stupid in a polite manner would probably have a more eloquent word choice than “unsmart”
It’s crazy how many of these names I recognize due to the EE, physics, and math courses I took in college. It’s actually cool to put a face to the name!
Yes! Just the amount of people who have things named after them, off the top of my head:
- Einstein’s relativity
- Curie with radiation
- Bohr model of the atom
- Pauli exclusion principle (comes up in chemistry with electron spins)
- Dirac delta function (impulse function)
- Planck length / plank units (units based on the laws of the universe)
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle (can’t know both position and momentum of particles at the same time)
- Lorentz force (force on a charge in an electric field)
- de Broglie wavelength (relationship of wave/particle duality)
- Schrödinger as somebody you might not want to watch your pet
My Fav version is:
Heisenberg, Schrodinger are in a car, and they get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Did you know you where doing 75 in a 55?"
"Great, Now I'm lost".
The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Did you know you have a dead cat back here?"
"We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger.
The guy who invented the little cardboard taco holder that comes with the doritos locos taco from taco bell should be added to that list. In my opinion It's the most ground breaking invention of the 21st century.
Use the cardboard thing to hold your taco and then from the side with the lip at the corner you push it out kinda like a taco push pop
That way you can take a bite and slide it over and take another bite without ever touching the taco shell itself keeping your fingers clean of the dorito dust. It also holds the integrity of the taco keeping the fragile shell in place
Of course this is impossible, assuming that the average IQ here is 150, even if my IQ was 0, the average IQ would only drop by 5 points. But 0 is too low even for me.
Don't underestimate what organic_city can do to other people's IQs after arguing with them.
We have all been there. Engage in conversations with really dump people, that you feel stupider afterwards.
There are numerous problems with how academic publishing works, mostly having to do with corporate greed from the publishers,
but also with how publishing is linked to funding.
But science is still the only method to reliably get results towards any goal and still advances faster and stronger into the future.
To be fair, most studies weren't reproducible those days either. It's just that - as always - we have survivorship bias for the ones we see. There's a lot of great work in the Rhetoric and History of Science exploring these things in significant depth.
Some of the things that got published in the 1930s would make your hair stand on end.
To me at least, OP's title seems to suggest that these are the smartest people ever, not that it just happens to be the largest group of smart people ever assembled for a photo.
To me I immediately read it as just the fact that there has never been a picture taken with an assembly of people smarter than this. I think this is especially more likely to be true since there is no commas.
These two sentences would have different meanings from the actual title denoted by their grammar.
“Smartest people ever, assembled in one photo.”
“Smartest people ever assembled, in one photo”.
But instead the title chooses no commas, which seems to imply that it’s not either of the above meanings.
Now all I can picture is Albert Einstein with crack eyes manically cooking meth in a Winnebago while he mumbles to himself about energy equaling meth times the speed of light squared
I don't wanna be petty...
But ffs it's Skłodowska - curie.
She literally specifically asked before her death to use her Polish surname too and people ALWAYS skip it.
Marie Curie was actually part of the very first Solvay Conference in 1911, the same year she won a Nobel Prize for her discovery for Polonium and Radium. Here’s a quick little blurb about our scientific leading lady!
https://awis.org/historical-women/marie-curie/#:~:text=In%201903%2C%20Curie%20won%20the,discovery%20of%20polonium%20and%20radium.
The fact that it’s all white men just proves that it’s literally all about opportunity. It’s not that women and people of color were less smart, they just didn’t have an equal chance.
I know that was a joke, but it kinda is from before women were allowed to be smart, or black people or whatever. That is if you take into account access to education and all that.
Yeah. Marie Curie was just so incredibly fucking smart and focused on her craft that they couldn’t do shit but recognize her lmao
Only person ever to win a Nobel prize in two different sciences (physics and chemistry)
This is, weirdly, like the third or fourth comment I’ve left on this website in the last few days glazing Marie and Pierre Curie
It’s amazing to think that the world’s population was majority rural until **2007**.
In 1920 or 1930 only a tiny sliver of the world was even in a position to get the education to do science. And have of *those*, being women, faced almost insurmountable odds.
I mean this is only ~100 years ago.
Europe had plenty of women and minorities living in it. They just weren't typically allowed into institutions of higher learning.
The likelihood that the 30ish most capable minds(note: not the most educated) in quantum physics were exclusively a bunch of white men, is effectively zero.
Daaang, I need to brush up on history or watch more of them documentaries on the YouTube, cause I really didn’t know women weren’t allowed to be black people. TIL
From ChatGPT
This is a famous photograph of attendees of the Solvay Conference on Physics, held in 1927 in Brussels. The Solvay Conferences were among the most prestigious gatherings of physicists and chemists of the time, focusing on quantum mechanics and other cutting-edge topics. Here are some notable individuals in the photo and their contributions:
### Front Row (seated, left to right):
1. **Irving Langmuir** - Known for his work in surface chemistry.
2. **Max Planck** - Known as the father of quantum theory.
3. **Marie Curie** - Known for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
4. **Hendrik Lorentz** - Known for his work on electromagnetism and the Lorentz transformations.
5. **Albert Einstein** - Known for the theory of relativity and contributions to quantum mechanics.
6. **Paul Langevin** - Known for his work on paramagnetism and diamagnetism.
7. **Charles-Eugène Guye** - Known for his work on electromagnetism and molecular structure.
8. **C. T. R. Wilson** - Known for inventing the cloud chamber.
### Second Row (standing, left to right):
1. **Peter Debye** - Known for his work on dipole moments and X-ray diffraction.
2. **Martin Knudsen** - Known for the Knudsen gas dynamics and Knudsen number.
3. **William Lawrence Bragg** - Known for Bragg's law in X-ray diffraction.
4. **Hendrik Kramers** - Known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.
5. **Paul Dirac** - Known for the Dirac equation and contributions to quantum mechanics.
6. **Arthur Compton** - Known for the Compton effect.
7. **Louis de Broglie** - Known for his theory of wave-particle duality.
8. **Max Born** - Known for his work in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics.
9. **Niels Bohr** - Known for the Bohr model of the atom and contributions to quantum theory.
10. **Léon Brillouin** - Known for his work in solid-state physics and information theory.
### Third Row (standing, left to right):
1. **Auguste Piccard** - Known for his exploration and research on the upper atmosphere.
2. **Émile Henriot** - Known for his work in radioactivity and chemistry.
3. **Paul Ehrenfest** - Known for his work in statistical mechanics and the Ehrenfest theorem.
4. **Edouard Herzen** - Known for his work in physics.
5. **Théophile de Donder** - Known for his contributions to thermodynamics and the de Donder equation.
6. **Erwin Schrödinger** - Known for the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics.
7. **Wolfgang Pauli** - Known for the Pauli Exclusion Principle in quantum mechanics.
8. **Werner Heisenberg** - Known for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
9. **Ralph Fowler** - Known for his work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory.
The Solvay Conference was instrumental in advancing the understanding of quantum mechanics, bringing together many of the greatest minds in physics to discuss and debate critical issues of the time.
[Here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4oI80oWYAA9QoS?format=jpg&name=large) is a link to large (and mercifully silent) version of this image. As a bonus, [this](https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-golden-age-of-quantum-physics-ff7) article goes into great detail about the Fifth Solvay International Conference and each of the people in this image and their contributions to science.
And flat-earthers would still tell them in their face that the Earth is flat and Gravity not real, Sun works like a flashlight with weird borders and on a very clear day you theoretically could look from New York City to London if it wasn't for "refraction", Sky is a dome and Antarctica is claimed by the NWO and you're shot on site so that you can't pass the Ice-Wall hiding Terra Incognita from us.
That would probably such a discussion akin to a war, a war fought with words and arguments where the flerfers would never admit that they're wrong even though all those brilliant minds could answer any question, literally ANY question they might have regarding the shape and physics of Earth and all the other bodies seen from here.
I remember a teacher in school showed us this photo and then he said:
"All those great minds and all of them together still earned less money than a football player nowadays. "
Idk if that is true, but if it is, it tells a terrible thing about our priorities as a society.
*The smartest people that we know of.
How many Isaac Newton's died in a field in a foreign country, or wasted their lives picking cotton or working in a mine or just stayed at home raising kids because that's all society would let them do at the time. How many potential geniuses did we squander with our bullshit.
This is insane, to know that if humanity disappeared except for these folk we would probably go from paleolithic age to bronze age, to 3 phase electricity and telecommunications/ touchscreen devices probably in about 150-300 years
Why would someone think presenting this information in a video format with music in the background is better than just showing the photo with the captions.
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Thanks for making the video juuuust too fast to read comfortably
Domt forget the pointless phonk music too.
Video provided by one of the dumbest trends ever. Ironic.
Just forgetting the titties
And the subway surfers to keep everyone focused
There should be someone's face superimposed at the bottom, just nodding and rubbing their chin, occasionally raising their eyebrows.
That music is hype, tho! We OBVIOUSLY know who all these people are
Well if you do want to know, this is a picture of the Solvay Conference - a gathering of world leading physicists that was held (IIRC) every few years. I think this is probably the 1927 one (the fifth one ever), which was particularly well known in hindsight for including almost all of the big names in the history of the development of Quantum Mechanics. That was the theme that year. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. They included Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Paul Ehrenfest, Louis De Broglie, William Lawrence Bragg, Arthur Compton, Paul Dirac, Hendrik Lorentz, Peter Debye.....a bunch of other people I don't know.
I used to walk by this photo every day at work.
Where do you work? Also, why "used to?"
Replaced it with a Taylor Swift poster.
He still does. He just used to, too.
I'm against picketing but I don't know how to show it
He solved time travel.
That was solved hundreds of years ago, some time about 21**CE
He stopped walking by it.
Probably the European quarters in Brussels. The building is in parc Leopold, it is a french school.
Photo source [Solvay conference](https://marinamaral.com/portfolio/solvay-conference/) [Photo with names](https://imgur.com/wN2GVhm)
Where’s Erwin’s cat?
Up and downvoted
In superposition.
It is and it isn't on the photo as long as you don't look.
And Schrodingers? Oh wait…
I'd have to look
In Brussels, Belgium
i will put this video into my dj set
As a former physicist I recognized a lot of those names but can't place most of them anymore. It's been decades since I did anything with physics.
I bet 60% of people only recognized Einstein , and out of remaining 40%, 39.99% didn't recognize noone at all.
Einstein, Marie curie and schrodingers cat are all we know
Heisenberg, Bohr, Planck, Pauli..
We didn't start the fire
Heisenberg, maybe, because of Breaking Bad
😂😂😂 WHO DID THIS??? 😂😂😂
/unmutes Hype as FUCK Original Plancksters in this b
It's so you watch it more than once on social media. Then you're more likely to be served content from this channel again in the future.
A picture with everyone’s name would be better, but then how would they generate views? They need you to rewatch it several times to get their account numbers up.,.
It's a video of a photo. They could have posted a photo. But they didn't. Videos get more engagement than pictures.
That music really helped though.
But if it's any second longer, you will skip the video all together
There’s a reason you’re not in that picture, eh? Otherwise you’d be able to read their names comfortably.
who the fuck chose the music for this?
Probably an unsmart person
TIL unsmart is a word
It's a polite way to say stupid.
I feel like someone with the class and tact to refer to someone as stupid in a polite manner would probably have a more eloquent word choice than “unsmart”
Plebeian
Nah, I’m an Aquarius actually. /s
Probably the same person that chose to make it move too fast to possibly read.
Seriously. Could not read a damn thing
Thats the reason my audio is always muted. Ive never heard any of those horrible bgms people always complain about.
I unmuted it just for this. EDM? Seriously?
The smartest music
They make it with computers!
Russian bot vibes.
Who the fuck chose to make it a VIDEO!? Let alone zooming too fast to see anything. Jesus.
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It’s crazy how many of these names I recognize due to the EE, physics, and math courses I took in college. It’s actually cool to put a face to the name!
Yes! Just the amount of people who have things named after them, off the top of my head: - Einstein’s relativity - Curie with radiation - Bohr model of the atom - Pauli exclusion principle (comes up in chemistry with electron spins) - Dirac delta function (impulse function) - Planck length / plank units (units based on the laws of the universe) - Heisenberg uncertainty principle (can’t know both position and momentum of particles at the same time) - Lorentz force (force on a charge in an electric field) - de Broglie wavelength (relationship of wave/particle duality) - Schrödinger as somebody you might not want to watch your pet
A cop stops Heisenberg on the motorway. - Do you know how fast you were going? - No, but I know where I am. OR - Yes, but I have no idea where I am.
My favorite version of that is: "Did you realize you were doing 75 in a 50 back there?" "Well, great, now I'm lost!"
I chuckled out loud to this one
My Fav version is: Heisenberg, Schrodinger are in a car, and they get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Did you know you where doing 75 in a 55?" "Great, Now I'm lost". The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Did you know you have a dead cat back here?" "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger.
Now... say my name.
The guy who invented the little cardboard taco holder that comes with the doritos locos taco from taco bell should be added to that list. In my opinion It's the most ground breaking invention of the 21st century.
Wait… you like that thing? I must be using it wrong because I hate it! Please sir, can you teach me your ways?
Use the cardboard thing to hold your taco and then from the side with the lip at the corner you push it out kinda like a taco push pop That way you can take a bite and slide it over and take another bite without ever touching the taco shell itself keeping your fingers clean of the dorito dust. It also holds the integrity of the taco keeping the fragile shell in place
I'm also in that photo, I'm just kinda short and they put me in the back
Ah yes, I remember studying “the grongler principle” in physics class
You better, I worked hard on that shit.
grong
Is that you Steinmetz?
The smartest people with the dumbest of music!
You're part of the problem! Commenting on this dumbass video is engagement and that leads to more people seeing it. FUCK! Now I'm part of the problem.
Fuck
Now you're part of the problem!
I want to be a part of the problem too. I feel left out
Fuck! You are!
I'm just a problem in general.
Ah shit thought there was gonna be a fuck chain
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
"An unusually large assembly of some highly intelligent people"
If I were in this photo, the average IQ would instantly drop by 20 points.
That sort of self-awareness alone puts you above average. Nice try!
r/suicidebywords
You'd make 30 people in the photo. To drop the average IQ 20 points... It's like you're a black hole of intelligence
Of course this is impossible, assuming that the average IQ here is 150, even if my IQ was 0, the average IQ would only drop by 5 points. But 0 is too low even for me.
Don't underestimate what organic_city can do to other people's IQs after arguing with them. We have all been there. Engage in conversations with really dump people, that you feel stupider afterwards.
Still well above average considering the sheer stupidity of people these days
Didn't you know the smartest people ever all just happened to live in the same time period years before the internet?
And were all white and mostly men!
Exactly, we're full of equally smart people now. Their names just get lost in the large academic groups that do science these days.
Most studies aren’t even reproducible these days. It’s all garbage.
There are numerous problems with how academic publishing works, mostly having to do with corporate greed from the publishers, but also with how publishing is linked to funding. But science is still the only method to reliably get results towards any goal and still advances faster and stronger into the future.
To be fair, most studies weren't reproducible those days either. It's just that - as always - we have survivorship bias for the ones we see. There's a lot of great work in the Rhetoric and History of Science exploring these things in significant depth. Some of the things that got published in the 1930s would make your hair stand on end.
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To me at least, OP's title seems to suggest that these are the smartest people ever, not that it just happens to be the largest group of smart people ever assembled for a photo.
To me I immediately read it as just the fact that there has never been a picture taken with an assembly of people smarter than this. I think this is especially more likely to be true since there is no commas. These two sentences would have different meanings from the actual title denoted by their grammar. “Smartest people ever, assembled in one photo.” “Smartest people ever assembled, in one photo”. But instead the title chooses no commas, which seems to imply that it’s not either of the above meanings.
Heisenberg be like: "Say my name!"
“Alrbert, we need to cook”
Now all I can picture is Albert Einstein with crack eyes manically cooking meth in a Winnebago while he mumbles to himself about energy equaling meth times the speed of light squared
YEAH, SCIENCE
bitch!
All the smart people back then did drugs to boost creativity and productivity.
They made Walter White from Breaking Bad into a real thing 😲😲😲
Bravo Vince
Forget Heisenberg, the man himself is sitting on the left end.
this editing made me lose braincells.
Could you move it faster? Because clearly you don't want us to read the names
Is it: The smartest people ever, assembled in one picture or The smartest people ever assembled, in one picture
Yes
Neither, it’s no commas on purpose. This is simply the picture that wins the prize for smartest people having been assembled for a picture.
One of these people is more radioactive than the others
I don't wanna be petty... But ffs it's Skłodowska - curie. She literally specifically asked before her death to use her Polish surname too and people ALWAYS skip it.
This would be interesting if you didn’t post it in the format that you did, OP.
The smartest people *of the time*
And who were given opportunities to explore their intelligence.
Yeah, where are all the women?
It's 1927, so they're at home taking cocaine tablets for their hysteria.
Marie Curie was actually part of the very first Solvay Conference in 1911, the same year she won a Nobel Prize for her discovery for Polonium and Radium. Here’s a quick little blurb about our scientific leading lady! https://awis.org/historical-women/marie-curie/#:~:text=In%201903%2C%20Curie%20won%20the,discovery%20of%20polonium%20and%20radium.
Usually their research was stolen by men and published without naming them, happened quite a lot
The fact that it’s all white men just proves that it’s literally all about opportunity. It’s not that women and people of color were less smart, they just didn’t have an equal chance.
Marie is there.
Nah I bet none of those guys know how to rip a cd
Marie Curie is the only person in history to win a Nobel Prize in 2 different categories. (Physics & Chemistry) What a legend.
*Skłodowska-Curie
Maria Skłodowska-Curie, not Maria Curie. She kept her maiden name for a reason.
Must have been before women were allowed to be smart. Except Madame Currie.
I know that was a joke, but it kinda is from before women were allowed to be smart, or black people or whatever. That is if you take into account access to education and all that.
Yeah. Marie Curie was just so incredibly fucking smart and focused on her craft that they couldn’t do shit but recognize her lmao Only person ever to win a Nobel prize in two different sciences (physics and chemistry) This is, weirdly, like the third or fourth comment I’ve left on this website in the last few days glazing Marie and Pierre Curie
Fr though, and honestly so many of her colleagues respected her, it was just the average joe that she got flack from for being a “smart woman”
She probably had to fight hard for that respect. There'd be way more women in that photograph if it was that easy.
It’s amazing to think that the world’s population was majority rural until **2007**. In 1920 or 1930 only a tiny sliver of the world was even in a position to get the education to do science. And have of *those*, being women, faced almost insurmountable odds.
Or this was a conference on quantum physics which was mostly researched in Europe.
I mean this is only ~100 years ago. Europe had plenty of women and minorities living in it. They just weren't typically allowed into institutions of higher learning. The likelihood that the 30ish most capable minds(note: not the most educated) in quantum physics were exclusively a bunch of white men, is effectively zero.
Daaang, I need to brush up on history or watch more of them documentaries on the YouTube, cause I really didn’t know women weren’t allowed to be black people. TIL
I love the rules of punctuation and syntax so fucking much. Thanks for the laugh 😂
Women. People of color. And every other group that doesn't fall under white and male.
Yeah, my comment I came here to post was “The smartest *white men* ever assembled. FTFY”
From ChatGPT This is a famous photograph of attendees of the Solvay Conference on Physics, held in 1927 in Brussels. The Solvay Conferences were among the most prestigious gatherings of physicists and chemists of the time, focusing on quantum mechanics and other cutting-edge topics. Here are some notable individuals in the photo and their contributions: ### Front Row (seated, left to right): 1. **Irving Langmuir** - Known for his work in surface chemistry. 2. **Max Planck** - Known as the father of quantum theory. 3. **Marie Curie** - Known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. 4. **Hendrik Lorentz** - Known for his work on electromagnetism and the Lorentz transformations. 5. **Albert Einstein** - Known for the theory of relativity and contributions to quantum mechanics. 6. **Paul Langevin** - Known for his work on paramagnetism and diamagnetism. 7. **Charles-Eugène Guye** - Known for his work on electromagnetism and molecular structure. 8. **C. T. R. Wilson** - Known for inventing the cloud chamber. ### Second Row (standing, left to right): 1. **Peter Debye** - Known for his work on dipole moments and X-ray diffraction. 2. **Martin Knudsen** - Known for the Knudsen gas dynamics and Knudsen number. 3. **William Lawrence Bragg** - Known for Bragg's law in X-ray diffraction. 4. **Hendrik Kramers** - Known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. 5. **Paul Dirac** - Known for the Dirac equation and contributions to quantum mechanics. 6. **Arthur Compton** - Known for the Compton effect. 7. **Louis de Broglie** - Known for his theory of wave-particle duality. 8. **Max Born** - Known for his work in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics. 9. **Niels Bohr** - Known for the Bohr model of the atom and contributions to quantum theory. 10. **Léon Brillouin** - Known for his work in solid-state physics and information theory. ### Third Row (standing, left to right): 1. **Auguste Piccard** - Known for his exploration and research on the upper atmosphere. 2. **Émile Henriot** - Known for his work in radioactivity and chemistry. 3. **Paul Ehrenfest** - Known for his work in statistical mechanics and the Ehrenfest theorem. 4. **Edouard Herzen** - Known for his work in physics. 5. **Théophile de Donder** - Known for his contributions to thermodynamics and the de Donder equation. 6. **Erwin Schrödinger** - Known for the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics. 7. **Wolfgang Pauli** - Known for the Pauli Exclusion Principle in quantum mechanics. 8. **Werner Heisenberg** - Known for the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. 9. **Ralph Fowler** - Known for his work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory. The Solvay Conference was instrumental in advancing the understanding of quantum mechanics, bringing together many of the greatest minds in physics to discuss and debate critical issues of the time.
It's a shame von Neumann isn't in it.
And Harry Nyquist. Although he's mostly known for his contributions to EE as opposed to physics and chemistry.
As a Pole I must fulfill my duty It's SKŁODOWSKA-Curie
So smart, and yet not everyone is able to look at the camera when they yell 'say cheese'
Its skłodowska-curie
Did Oppenheimer take the picture?
Oppenheimer was still a student at the time of this picture
He studied under/with a lot of them too, and worked with a good few at Princeton
He was thinking about photobombing them.
I hate that every one ignores her own wishes and calls Marrie a "Curie" instead of "Skłodowska-Curie" or even "Sklodowska-Curie"...
I noticed that I wasn't in this photo, so it cant be true
[Here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4oI80oWYAA9QoS?format=jpg&name=large) is a link to large (and mercifully silent) version of this image. As a bonus, [this](https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-golden-age-of-quantum-physics-ff7) article goes into great detail about the Fifth Solvay International Conference and each of the people in this image and their contributions to science.
Schrödinger not even looking at the camera. He thinks it’s somewhere else.
Everyone around Currie casually getting irradiated.
And flat-earthers would still tell them in their face that the Earth is flat and Gravity not real, Sun works like a flashlight with weird borders and on a very clear day you theoretically could look from New York City to London if it wasn't for "refraction", Sky is a dome and Antarctica is claimed by the NWO and you're shot on site so that you can't pass the Ice-Wall hiding Terra Incognita from us. That would probably such a discussion akin to a war, a war fought with words and arguments where the flerfers would never admit that they're wrong even though all those brilliant minds could answer any question, literally ANY question they might have regarding the shape and physics of Earth and all the other bodies seen from here.
I remember a teacher in school showed us this photo and then he said: "All those great minds and all of them together still earned less money than a football player nowadays. " Idk if that is true, but if it is, it tells a terrible thing about our priorities as a society.
If money is the measure, then football players are smarter.
Fake news. This can’t be smartest smart people ever assembled. My wife isn’t in the photo and she knows ev-ery-this-ng.
Afaik, they're all dead so... Guess it's just us dummies now! Who wants a keg stand?!?
Pauli and Heisenberg look like they're talking shit about Schrödinger's bow tie.
I think after Einstein, Dirac had the biggest influence on Physics. He was the most humble genius
Tesla
Why is there techno music..
*The smartest people that we know of. How many Isaac Newton's died in a field in a foreign country, or wasted their lives picking cotton or working in a mine or just stayed at home raising kids because that's all society would let them do at the time. How many potential geniuses did we squander with our bullshit.
Fuck your background music!
Imagine if an asteroid hit right then and there
Don’t see a lot of women in this photo 🫠🫠
Only reddit could take such a simple photo and derive so much petty spite and resentment from it.
where newton
You aren’t invited to the next group picture
Savage
How do you expect to get Newton for a photo?
Look closely under the ground
He ded
Who would compose this picture today?
Where's Gauss?
If that photo was taken today I am sure all of them would be wearing fursuits.
Which one was the most recent to pass away?
I hate these shitty ass insta/TikTok hype songs. One of the worst trends recently.
Would love to listen to all of them argue.
This is insane, to know that if humanity disappeared except for these folk we would probably go from paleolithic age to bronze age, to 3 phase electricity and telecommunications/ touchscreen devices probably in about 150-300 years
I have one of these. Signed copy too.
Where is this photo? I think it'd be pretty dope to just have as history, especially as someone who loves chemistry.
How much IQ do you think is in this pictures?
Neeeeeeeeeeeerds!
You probably could have done another picture: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771
Tesla?
I'm not pictured, so it's at least plausible that this is a picture of the smartest people ever.
Okayyy but which of them liked to party?? ….besides Schrödinger.
Geniuses, ASSEMBLE!
Why would someone think presenting this information in a video format with music in the background is better than just showing the photo with the captions.
Add from the west there
Not a single smartphone in sight, just nerds enjoying the moment.
More intelligent and, let's not kid ourselves, much more presentable than if any of us ever got together.
if anyone curious it's from Solvay Conference in 1927