Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: natural philosophy
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Schrödinger’s Gershwin
In a scene worthy of The Matrix, I felt time slow to a fractal crawl. In the Planck time separating what was and what could be, I considered the Hamiltonian and its myriad possibilities.
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Bridge Building: Medical Research and Computing
As an aside, Lee remarked to me once that he had been pleased with the quality of his undergraduate science education and that it had prepared him well to tackle complex problems. Of course, he also noted that he’d had undergraduate physics with Dick Feynman, chemistry with Linus Pauling and biology with Max Delbrück. That’s…