Re: OT: Was it really 25 years ago?

Graeme Wall <Graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > You can't choose your epoch, but I'd
> > have loved to have experienced the '20s and '30s. Not of course an
> > unmitigatedly positive exerience... But the writing, the science, the
> > design....
>
> All of which you can experience, and with the advantage of knowing the
> context.

Up to a point. But there is something about participating in the process
that can't be recaptured entirely by sampling the results. I can see
that looking back at the '60s. Being there and doing it was better than
remembering it now, although it helps a lot to have been there.

I love the literature, design and the music of the '20s and '30s and I
vividly remember on holiday in Britanny talking to a grand old chap who
had helped decorate Poiret's showrooms (he was driving a sumptuously
preserved Citroen light 15, too) which hinted at the excitement. It's
true of every period, of course. But it would have been lovely to have
been around as Bohr and Heisenberg were revolutionising our
understanding of the nature of matter, for instance, and reading about
their papers as they came out. As my dad used to sit down with me in the
late '40s and read about the discovery of new particles... So exciting.

Of course we have the same happening now with entanglement showing us,
concretely, that we are lacking a whole layer of understanding. Again,
so exciting.
--
Peter
.

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