>Am I missing these crazy, happy, funny, exciting times? Sure I am, but they are gone to never come back.
Well, some aspects of that paradise are coming back - new law in Russia puts FSB back into the science curator position, and all the scientific contacts with foreigners, people/companies/organizations, must be approved by FSB.
what an amazing article packed with very useful physics insights. Need to follow up more on the last idea of the gaussian random force and the quantization of Newton's equations. Even the opening sentence had me try to remember some of my DE by expressing the rational faction via the technique of the variation of constants :) (have to admit that i felt too rusty...). Thank you for posting this!
That's lovely writing about physics, people, and life in the Soviet times.
> We had some wild parties in Chernogolovka, with rivers of vodka, lots of dances, flirtation, sometimes ending with fistfights. We were young, talented, brazen, careless and free. I have never been so free in my life since then. When I came into the Big Real World where I happily live now I realized that one cannot live without responsibilities, but we had almost no responsibilities back then, in the golden 70-ties. Money meant very little, nobody had any money by modern standards, but all the good things of life were free back then, or so it seemed to us.
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[ 707 ms ] story [ 216 ms ] threadWell, some aspects of that paradise are coming back - new law in Russia puts FSB back into the science curator position, and all the scientific contacts with foreigners, people/companies/organizations, must be approved by FSB.
> We had some wild parties in Chernogolovka, with rivers of vodka, lots of dances, flirtation, sometimes ending with fistfights. We were young, talented, brazen, careless and free. I have never been so free in my life since then. When I came into the Big Real World where I happily live now I realized that one cannot live without responsibilities, but we had almost no responsibilities back then, in the golden 70-ties. Money meant very little, nobody had any money by modern standards, but all the good things of life were free back then, or so it seemed to us.