He said how clocks had improved by 4 orders of magnitude in 300 years, by six orders in the 50 years to 1975 and by another six in the last 50.

Huygens was a top bloke by all accounts.

I wrote down the very same sentence in my notebook. A real zinger!

Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here.

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Is there something special about islands like Helgoland when it comes to musing about basic quantum questions? And why do we even need to bother with the fundamental stuff?
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