November 20, 2007
Alive & ~Alive
PlayQuestion 4 of 5 from the theme round. Be sure to read the guidelines :)
Connect 1 and Nazi Poet Laureate in 2 (the one facing you.. not the other one)
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A Nony Mouse, shreyas , WikiWaki , Tathagata Chatterjee, teju , Poornima , udupendra get the theme and 2 points. Nice work!
This question was cracked by: udupendra , nisha’s thambi , deepak , sidsen , Poornima , teju , shivathilak , iamniks , Gammafunction , alephnull , yaksha , Ganesh Prasad , Tathagata Chatterjee , Shakeel , Mahesh , shyam , prasanth , VikraM and bobo.
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Answer:
Like all of you guessed,
Hawking’s famous quote- “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my gun.”
It’s a variation on a line from Hanns Johst’s play Schlageter: “Whenever I hear of culture… I release the safety-catch of my Browning!”.
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November 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195554333 )
“when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun” – Johst
variation on the theme – “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol” – Hawking.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:26 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195554391 )
Theme: Types of bugs, dammit!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195555522 )
“When I hear the word Culture, I reach for my gun”… Stephen Hawking substituted Schrodinger’s cat for Culture.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195555871 )
“When I hear of Schrodinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol”.Stephen Hawking’s adaptation of a line in one of Hanns Johst the Nazi Poet Laureate’s plays.
googled.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195556105 )
the malaproprism of the line “Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning”
November 20th, 2007 at 11:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195556823 )
Stephen Hawking
Hanns Johst
connect: Hawking’s famous quote- “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my gun.” It’s a variation on a line from Hanns Johst’s play Schlageter: “Whenever I hear of culture… I release the safety-catch of my Browning!”
November 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195557547 )
theme: computer bugs
(heisenbug, mandelbug, bohrbug, schroedinbug)
November 20th, 2007 at 4:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195577605 )
1. Stephen Hawking
2. Hans Josht
Hawking made a statement, “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol.” This was a deliberately ironic paraphrase of “Whenever I hear the word culture… I release the safety-catch of my Browning”, from the play Schlageter by Nazi Poet Laureate, Hans Johst.
Schrodinger’s Wave equation
November 20th, 2007 at 4:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195577922 )
Maybe the theme of the round is “Unusual software bugs”
1.heisenbug
2.mandelbug
3.Bohrbug
4.Schroedinbug
November 20th, 2007 at 5:48 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195580927 )
Schroedinger’s cat …
November 20th, 2007 at 7:16 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195586172 )
the second guy is Hanns Johst, whose most famous line was “when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, and Stephen Hawkings’ (the first guy) adaptation of the line was
“When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol”
November 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195588871 )
Physicist Stephen Hawking(pic 1) once said, “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my gun,” paraphrasing German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate Hanns Johst’s(pic2) famous phrase “Wenn ich ‘Kultur’ höre, entsichere ich meinen Browning!” (“When I hear the word ‘culture’, I release the safety on my Browning,” often paraphrased as something like, “When I hear the word ‘culture,’ I reach for my gun.”)
November 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195588917 )
Theme:
Something to do with nazi germany and scientists who moved or relocated because of the war.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:25 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195590359 )
1.Stephen Hawking
2.Hans Johst
connect being the quote:
“When I hear of ______, I reach for my gun”
1. substituted Schrödinger’s cat
2. substituted culture
November 20th, 2007 at 8:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195590524 )
“When I hear of Schrödinger’s Cat, I reach for my pistol”. Hans Johst made the original statement which has been adapted by many, including Stephen Hawking.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:29 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195590569 )
One last try for the theme: Uncertainty principle.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:40 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195591235 )
Stephen Hawking
hanns johst
stephen modified johst’s “Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning,” “Whenever I hear of culture… I release the safety-catch of my Browning!”
to
“When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol”
November 20th, 2007 at 8:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195591269 )
1.Stephen Hawking
2.Hanns Johst
Hawking is known for his wit; he is famous for his oft-made statement, “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol.” This was a deliberately ironic paraphrase of “Whenever I hear the word culture… I release the safety-catch of my Browning”, from the play Schlageter (Act 1, Scene 1) by German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate, Hanns Johst.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:42 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195591343 )
theme- atom/atomic particles
November 20th, 2007 at 8:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195591430 )
Theme : Quantum mechanics
November 20th, 2007 at 9:04 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195592675 )
The Nazi Poet Laureate is Hanns Johst.
The connection is : Schrodinger’s Cat.
The case of quotations attributed to both.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
November 20th, 2007 at 9:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195593649 )
The theme is : Unusual software bugs.
Heisenbug, Bohrbug, Mandelbug, Schroedinbug etc.
Regards,
Tathagata Chatterjee
November 20th, 2007 at 9:29 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195594147 )
Theme- Software Bugs?
November 20th, 2007 at 9:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195595631 )
The connect is one of the famous lines used in the play Schlageter, written by Hanns Johst ,which goes something like… “when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”.
Hawking sometimes uses this as “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol”.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195596404 )
Stephen Hawking [1] said “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol”, which was mocking a statement from the play, Schlageter, wrote by Hanns Johst [2]
P.S. This was too easy. not in the “boiledbeans league.” (of course, if my answer is correct :) )
November 20th, 2007 at 10:07 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195596469 )
Theme: all questions are related to scientists who worked on atomic structure and electron theory.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195597223 )
Theme:
Quantum Mechanics…with fractals,heisenberg uncertainity princple,bohr model of atom(that started off the study),Schrodingers cat all contributing to the development
November 20th, 2007 at 10:38 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1195598327 )
Pic 1 – Stephen Hawking
Pic 2 – Hans Johst
Hawking’s line ” When I hear of Schrodinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol” is adapted from Johst’s play Schlageter
November 21st, 2007 at 12:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195604452 )
The line “when I hear the word culture, I reach for my gun”, often associated with Nazi leaders has also been adapted, for example by Stephen Hawking as “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol”
November 21st, 2007 at 12:21 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195604472 )
is the theme schrodinger’s cat?
November 21st, 2007 at 2:04 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195610660 )
1. Stephen Hawking once said “when I hear of Schroedinger’s cat I reach for my pistol”, referring to Schroedinger’s cat paradox.
2. This is Hanns Johst, who wrote the original line that inspired the above: “whenever I hear of culture I release the safety hatch of my Browning”
the title gives Schroedinger’s cat paradox away..
November 21st, 2007 at 3:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195614960 )
Schroedinger’s cat
November 21st, 2007 at 3:17 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195615027 )
The theme – Unusual software bugs
Heisenbugs
Mandelbugs
Bohrbug
Schroedinbugs
November 21st, 2007 at 3:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195615343 )
Connect: Erwin Schrödinger. Hawking said “when I hear of schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my gun” a parody of what Johst, the poet laureate said.
The theme is software bugs named for the way they behave – heisenbugs, bohrbugs, mandelbugs and schrödingerbugs
November 21st, 2007 at 7:43 am, GMT +0000 ( 1195631019 )
Hawking is famous for his oft-made statement, “When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my gun.” This was a deliberately ironic paraphrase of the phrase “When I hear the word ‘culture’, I reach for my Browning”, from a play by German playwright and Nazi Poet Laureate, Hanns Johst.