Of quantum public affairs, stamp collecting and the Four Horsemen

Author: Tom Spencer

Source: Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 3, Number 1, March 2003 , pp. 90-92(3)

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Abstract:

Lord Rutherford, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, once opined that ‘all science is either physics or stamp collecting’. I have met a series of people from politics, the military and public affairs, whose worldview is based on their background in physics. Conversations with them reinforce my pre-existing instinctive awareness that public affairs and politics do not inhabit a Newtonian, mechanistic universe, where one lever pulled produces a predictable outcome. Rather, everything is in a chaos of simultaneous interaction and apparently isolated acts can change the whole ‘landscape’ dramatically.

Document Type: Miscellaneous

Publication date: 2003-03-01

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