Thursday, April 18, 2013

Violent Origins of the Crackpot Session at the APS March Meeting

Wow. The 'crackpot session' at the American Physical Society apparently started in the afternoon of a shooting by an enraged physicist whose abstract was rejected. See this BBC article for a discussion about this.

Those wacky physicists!

(Tip of the cap to whoever does Facebook posts for Physics Today.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The killer was not a physicist, but a mentally ill person who thought they had the answers to the universe.