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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

The feelings you get when you discover something new

18 Jun 2020 Robert P Crease
Taken from the June 2020 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Shock and awe?".

How do you react when something unexpected happens in physics? Robert P Crease runs through the gamut of emotions

Group of businesspeople looking shocked
Strange encounters Physics discoveries can be an emotional business. (Courtesy: iStock/skynesher)
In January 1957 J Robert Oppenheimer was on holiday in the Caribbean when he received a telegram fro

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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