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On 4/4/25 2:37 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
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Hehe :) That book is not that unfamiliar to me. What a coincidence.


And now that I think about it, I can kind of make informed guesses as 
what caused him to write it.

Born deserved a Nobel earlier but they hadn't given him one by 1935 
while one of his students (Heisenberg) had got it. Who knows, Born may 
have even been the one who gave the right idea to Heisenberg, letting 
him do the job.

He had done, way earlier, the same thing with Einstein's GR too. Born is 
the one who was supposed to develop GR and he had started it too, but 
soon found out Einstein is working on it also, so in a favor to Einstein 
he stopped his own work on GR.

He later said he could finish it much earlier than Einstein did, if he 
had not stopped the work.

I think the same thing may've happened with Heisenberg.

Anyway, without a doubt, Born was a top physicist of his time, at the 
least at the level of Einstein and Heisenberg. This is my point. Yet, he 
hadn't gotten a Nobel.

So he decided to make money in some other way, I guess. But how?

Jews had already successfully shoved communism up cro-magnons' asses to 
fuck those bastards up for treating them bad for centuries, and this had 
destroyed the appeal that cro-magnons' "religion" had for them. And the 
1800's cro-magnons who had sold crap to people in the name of new 
religions were also fast dying off in the 1930s. No market value. So a 
kind of niche must've formed in those years to use cro-magnons 
imagination and desire for strange baloney and make money by that. Some 
chose writing science fiction stories and were successful.

But what would Jewish scientists do to make money off of the 
cro-magnons? The lousy ones resorted to write psychology books packed 
with bogus theories about sexuality and fucking, just so to sell well, 
and made good money too. But top scientists would not do that sort of 
things. That kind of fraudulent work was beneath their dignity.

So what would a man like Born do now that he was being denied the Nobel 
Prize money? I think he chose to write this book, The Restless Universe. 
I get a hint at least by the title of it. It is for selling something to 
the maximum number of ordinary people hungry for stuff that are to some 
degree strange to them and are true as well :)

I happened to read this book way back in early 1970s cause someone had 
translated it to Persian and one copy of that was for reasons unknown to 
me in our house, I think purchased by one of my elder brothers falling 
for its title. The book was being spotted by me here and there in the 
house for at least a decade, along all sorts of other books and 
magazines that I had nothing to do with them.

In the 1960s, we high schoolers would see much more of George Gamow's 
popular physics books which almost all of them had been translated to 
Persian in late 1950s. But somehow, somebody in the same period of years 
had chosen this book also to translate. I don't know why. I cannot 
imagine Born was a known figure in Tehran as a top physicist. I 
personally heard of his work only in early 1970s when studying physics 
at Tehran University. And only then, it had clicked in me that this same 
man was also the author of this "  جهان ناآرام  " book that here and 
there I'd seen in the house for years.

So after starting physics in university, and soon after my physics 
background got strengthened a bit, I naturally began reading it at last. 
I don't remember much, but the impression that the book had made on me 
was that it was like a long story but in physics concepts, spoken to the 
reader in a friendly manner, which was a great relief compared to how 
physics was covered in the university - our physics texts in the 
university were mostly translations of French physics books which were 
all quite rigorous and formal and presented in somewhat sadistic ways 
for students who were being exposed to them for the first time. The 
French usually first treat everything rigorously, and only then may do 
the explanations. It is not so in the United States, and thanks god for 
that!

That's the only expression of the Born's book that I still remember. 
Gamow books were a bit too informal and for a wider audience. We had 
begun reading them in high school.

Anyway, when you referred to it, it took me a quite a few seconds to 
realize and remember all that about it and make sure the book was the 
same thing we had back then in the house :-) Still don't know who bought 
it. Both my brothers are still alive, I can ask them that; they may 
remember.

Hehe :) I read that before even you were in existence :)