November 24, 2010
Seemingly impossible.
PlayVery borderline geeky…
This picture was taken during the opening of the institute of physics at the University of Lund in Sweden in 1951. What are these two people looking at?
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Answer:
Wolfgang Pauli and Neils Bohr, deeply inspecting a Tippe Top. The toy is know to have been of interest to Bohr.
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It’s a “Tippe Top”.
Pauli and Bohr studying a spinning top?
tipple top(pauli & bohr are looking at tipple top,a fun toy that spins)
Pauli and Bohr looking at a topple top.
Bohr and Pauli looking at the Tippe Top
Tippy Top, Pauli and Bohr.
tippe top
Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr checking the Tippe Top.
Good amount of Angular momentum physics involved. Why borderline geeky?
The magical inversion inherent in a “Tippe Top”
wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr demonstrating a ‘tippe top’ toy.
bohr and pauli looking at a tippetop
A Tippe top.
Tippe Top
Picture of Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top.
Picture of Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top
Tippe top
Picture of Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top.
Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top.
Pauli and Bohr watching a tippe top. Could it be that Pauli formulated his electron spin theory after he watched this top? :)
Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top. A top that turns over and spins.
Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr are looking at a Tippe Top
Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top, a funky “flip-over” top.
Picture of Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr studying a Tippe Top.
Tippe top
Tippe Top
Tippy Top
tippe top
Scientific bleed flies. Wolfgang Pauli
Niles Bohr and while playing with the risers
spinning tops
Tippe Top
A tippe top
Tippe top.
The Tippe Top!