Watching the Cambridge scenes reminded me of visiting the campus and procuring my favorite high school t-shirt from an off campus bookstore reading “the more I study, the more I know, the more I know the more I forget, the more I forget, the less I know. So why study?” My grades were well in GCSE courses and then back in Virginia but I was not one to study.
As a history major I am fascinated to hear you studied under a professor from the manhattan project! Those are the historic first hand accounts that are worth more than any monetary value.
Much later in life I developed a deep appreciation for history, and particularly the history of mathematics. It is a fascinating topic and it maps very well with historical advances of physics. Almost as if one drove the other.
I was really fond of a story from Cambridge. There’s a bridge originally built by some mathematician whose name I can’t recall. I believe in the 70’s the graduating seniors disassembled the bridge while partying, as was tradition. The bridge required no bolts as the physics kept it together, anyways they couldn’t recall how to reassemble the thing after sobering up and it took a long deep dive into the special collections archive to find the original plans. The tour guide said bolts were used after reassembly that time to prevent the same episode repeating itself 😂
Watching the Cambridge scenes reminded me of visiting the campus and procuring my favorite high school t-shirt from an off campus bookstore reading “the more I study, the more I know, the more I know the more I forget, the more I forget, the less I know. So why study?” My grades were well in GCSE courses and then back in Virginia but I was not one to study.
As a history major I am fascinated to hear you studied under a professor from the manhattan project! Those are the historic first hand accounts that are worth more than any monetary value.
Much later in life I developed a deep appreciation for history, and particularly the history of mathematics. It is a fascinating topic and it maps very well with historical advances of physics. Almost as if one drove the other.
Thanks for the note!
I was really fond of a story from Cambridge. There’s a bridge originally built by some mathematician whose name I can’t recall. I believe in the 70’s the graduating seniors disassembled the bridge while partying, as was tradition. The bridge required no bolts as the physics kept it together, anyways they couldn’t recall how to reassemble the thing after sobering up and it took a long deep dive into the special collections archive to find the original plans. The tour guide said bolts were used after reassembly that time to prevent the same episode repeating itself 😂
Once on a business trip, we had to visit a researcher at Cambridge (we sold scientific instruments) and I got to see the bridge on the river Cam.
I also remember arriving at noon on a Sunday, and we couldn't find anything to eat. Even the pubs there didn't serve food in the afternoon on Sunday.
After restaurants opened for dinner, I will say that mushy peas never tasted so good.
Ohhh mushy peas lol best found at the Goose Fair during my years in Nottingham.
Thanks for this review; I'd been undecided about whether to watch it. I'll get to it at some point.
It is good, but not great, and it would have been better if they trimmed it to be ~ 2 hours versus 3 hours.