Why is Dirac not more fondly remembered?

Stfu fag

Look up his wiki biography. He was as autistic as it gets. Pretty lucky to get married at all lol.

His function is stupid.

>He criticised the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's interest in poetry: "The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
jfc the autism
Something tells me that if he had been born today he would've spent his teenage years shitposting on Veeky Forums instead of studying and wouldn't have made any contributions to physics

>Another story told of Dirac is that when he first met the young Richard Feynman at a conference, he said after a long silence, "I have an equation. Do you have one too?"
Holy shit this can't be real lmao

but he is fondly remembered? At least by physicists like me

because he never cared for QFT, contrary to brainlet feynman

"Yes but it's a secret"

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethe–Feynman_formula

Lmao sounds less autist and more troll.

Pretty sure Feynman would be on board with that.

>he said after a long silence, "I have an equation. Do you have one too?"
CUTE! CUUUUUUUUTE!

>I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it.

>I want to emphasize the necessity for a sound mathematical basis for any fundamental physical theory. Any philosophical ideas that one may have play only a subordinate role. Unless such ideas have a mathematical basis they will be ineffective.
>God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
>If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

If only physishits were more like this!

>An anecdote recounted in a review of the 2009 biography tells of Werner Heisenberg and Dirac sailing on an ocean liner to a conference in Japan in August 1929. "Both still in their twenties, and unmarried, they made an odd couple. Heisenberg was a ladies' man who constantly flirted and danced, while Dirac—'an Edwardian geek', as biographer Graham Farmelo puts it—suffered agonies if forced into any kind of socialising or small talk. 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked his companion. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?'"

/myguy/

>He divided the difficulties of quantum mechanics into two classes, those of the first class and those of the second. The second-class difficulties were essentially the infinities of relativistic quantum field theory. Dirac was very disturbed by these, and was not impressed by the 'renormalisation' procedures by which they are circumvented.

Based as fuck. This chart confirmed garbage.

You cant even be mad if someone says that to you and its true, its the sci equivalent of the race card.

>einstein
>mid-tier

>Amongst his many students was John Polkinghorne, who recalls that Dirac "was once asked what was his fundamental belief. He strode to a blackboard and wrote that the laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations."

>Watson
>high-tier
he's cardboard-cutout one-page paper tier

Dirac was so quiet that his colleagues once jokingly made up a unit of time called the 'dirac'- "words per hour".

>physicists like me
>t. undergrad sophomore

>be Mendel
>revolutionize our understanding of the world
>nobody cares

During one of Dirac’s visits I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was trying to take the square-root of a matrix, and I thought to myself what a strange thing for such a brilliant man to be doing. Not long afterwards the proof sheets of his article on the equation arrived, and I saw he had not even told me that he had been trying to take the square root of the unit matrix!

t. Niels Bohr a.k.a the brainlet whom Dirac BTFO

> LaGrange in the shitter

... not as stupid as you, user.

Bump for Dirac fun tales and shitposts

>Unless such ideas have a mathematical basis they will be ineffective.

And if the math doesn't have a basis in ideas, you won't be able to understand it or build on it. Which is why we've been essentially stuck for the last 50 years.

holy shit man, idk why I find this so funny but I just started laughing hysterically

where re the women on your chart, user?

why is the only black person in the "shit-tier"?

you got some personnel work to do there pal

>add some diversity user
>:^)

Hahaha this chart is too correct for Einsteenites to comprehend

this, lagrange basically made galois

>words per hour
>unit of time
So, how many diracs are in one lightyear then?

Feynman would be successful anyway. He was social enough that even with the internet nowadays, he would not lose grip on reality and would remain focused on his discoveries.

pop sci loves schroedingers cat, doesn't it?

and Schroedingers cat loves pop sci for keeping it much more relevant than it ever needed to be for the last 10 years
>woah this cat could be dead and alive at the s same time
buzzfeed: this latest scientific breakthrough will have you screaming o m g

feynman has no legacy
dirac as the dirac function

chad loses for once

Feynman has Feynman diagrams and the Feynman path integral, both pretty important.

Dirac is the final boss of non-relativistic QM. Too bad he was scared shitless by QFT. His book is still the best for intro to non-relativistic QM.