Red Mug, Blue Linen : Now, voyager

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Brussels after the Crash. Tintin

is off in the Land of the Soviets,

driving an Amilcar C6 (of course).

And yet they said, there would be

Hergé
1930

Laurent

Laurent: Writing to a colleague in the 1930s, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli confessed, “I have done a terrible thing. I’ve postulated a particle that can not be detected.” Eventually, Pauli won the Nobel Prize for his Exclusion Principle, i.e., all material particles exhibit space-occupying behaviour - and could very well fall within the province of restaurants. I wonder if red mug, blue linen will be that terrible thing, a postulate without a particle - that a gentleman is only that creature whose nourishment occupies no space. But whether that is true, is less urgent to know than where it comes from.

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