Botticelli - June 2019

Thread Games
141

DQ1: Does your discovery have anything to do with quantum physics?

DQ2: Are you considered a scientist of the Enlightenment?

142

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Born before 1925
  5. Not British
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Dead
  9. Not known for a business or product
  10. Not known for politics
  11. Not known for military
  12. Known for Science
  13. Physicist
  14. Known for a particular discovery/invention
  15. Not known for work on nuclear weapons
  16. Last name starts with O
  17. Discovery made long before WWII
  18. Born after 1400
  19. Not German
  20. Born after 1750
  21. The discovery has to do with electricity and magnetism.
  22. The discovery does not deal in quantum physics.
  23. Post-Enlightenment
143

My best guess is Georg Ohm, but he’s not really physics.

144

That’s who I was thinking.

145

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Born before 1925
  5. Not British
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Dead
  9. Not known for a business or product
  10. Not known for politics
  11. Not known for military
  12. Known for Science
  13. Physicist
  14. Known for a particular discovery/invention
  15. Not known for work on nuclear weapons
  16. Last name starts with O
  17. Discovery made long before WWII
  18. Born after 1400
  19. Not German
  20. Born after 1750
  21. The discovery has to do with electricity and magnetism.
  22. The discovery does not deal in quantum physics.
  23. Post-Enlightenment, or maybe really Late Enlightenment.
146

I keep getting stuck on J.J. d’Omalius d’Halloy, but only because his name is so fun to say. He was a geologist, anyway.

147

Okay, you all have until 9 pm EDT Saturday for final guesses. (And, no, it’s not Ohm).

148

I’m stumped.

149

Ditto. Oppenheimer was the only “O” physicist I could think of, but he was American.

I’ll take a what-the-hell crack at it: Are you Ernst Öpik?

150

No, I am not.

151

Well, I hope somebody else has heard of him.

I am Hans Christian Ørsted, 1777-1851, Danish physicist who discovered electric currents create magnetic fields. Oersted’s law is named for him. He apparently was also the first scientist to use “thought experiments” to help in determining the laws of physics, as well as being the first to produce aluminum. Oersted was also a close personal friend of Hans Christian Andersen, as it happens.

152

Technically, Ø is a different letter from O. Both are in the Danish alphabet.

Plus, I haven’t heard of Ørsted.

153

Well, it is known as Oersted’ Law in English, and SMV did guess Öpik, so I don’t consider than a real problem. I’m wondering if our emissary to the SDSAB knows him, mainly.

154

Hmm. Never heard of him, regardless of spelling.

155

Okay. That just leaves SMV to affirm, or hosting goes back to SCAdian.

156

KO, I thought you certainly had it with this DQ. Live and learn.

157

I wasn’t involved with this game, but you can add me to the list of people who haven’t heard of him.
ETA: Never heard of Öpik, either.

158

I was trying to remember fields of physics and that was the only one I could think of besides the big bang kind. I couldn’t think of anybody besides Ohm when you verified. That’s why this game gets to me sometimes.

159

Nope. Never heard o’ the man. And to be honest, I had never heard of Erik Öpik, until I’d googled Oort to find out his first name. The comet-producing field of planetesimals is technically the Öpik-Oort Cloud

But I’m content to say that the Prof won this round.

160

Ah, well. Back to you, SCA.