If you look at the schedule of events for DAMOP next week, you will see that there is a movie showing scheduled for Tuesday night: Real Genius. This seems like an excellent excuse to run a poll:
While the meeting will largely involve quantum mechanics, this is a purely classical poll, so you can choose only one answer, not a superposition of multiple answers.
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Is it the expurgated version? Evidently, they changed … the body part used to hammer a nail in a two-by-four…
I like the one with the kid building a nuclear bomb better.
Would you classify that as a design problem, or a launch problem?
How many movies about laser science could there be, really?
I know it’s a stretch, but lasers did play a big role in Fantastic Voyage (a much bigger role than credible science… no talk of extracting photons here).