Timeline for What were some historically important Fermi estimates in the history of science?
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| Oct 31, 2022 at 14:38 | answer | added | David Bailey | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 21:48 | comment | added | Cosmas Zachos | Many of Fermi's theoretical achievements, such as the 4-Fermi theory of weak decays or Fermi's Golden rule evince the same genius for paring off the inessential, even though they are not numerical estimates. | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 13:08 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | The problem is that "order of magnitude" depends on the size of the numbers involved and on the estimated uncertainty in the simple analysis in question. | |
| Oct 14, 2021 at 13:05 | comment | added | Mark Eichenlaub | @Conifold Thanks, I think that would be a great answer! | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 23:57 | comment | added | Conifold | How "back-of-the-envelope" is it supposed to be? In 1999 Tegmark did some ballparking on decoherence rates in the brain and concluded that the brain was too "warm, wet and noisy" for quantum effects to make a difference (contra to "consciousness causes collapse" and "quantum free will" hopes). This sure prompted a lot of "intellectual development", "warm, wet and noisy" became a meme. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 17:46 | history | asked | Mark Eichenlaub | CC BY-SA 4.0 |