Cynthia Dunsford, my fave politician, has this picture on her office wall - it is the 5th Solvay Conference on Physics - where the post Netwonian world was discussed.
Perhaps the most famous conference was the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons,
where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly
formulated quantum theory. The leading figures were Albert Einstein and
Niels Bohr. Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," remarked "God does not play dice." Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do." (See Bohr-Einstein debates.) Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines. Wikipedia
Cyn has this picture on her wall because of the lone woman there - the 2 times Nobel winner, Marie Curie.
The irony for me is that we meet in the same context as the 1927 conference met in the field of Physics - a revolution in world view that has lead to Boyd's use of this idea to face problems in the social and physical world - credit crisis etc.
The other irony is that this will be by design a small meeting too - where conversation will be the centre
Here is a short film of the Solvay meeting - we plan to video as much content as possible at the Boyd Conference and to make it available to all
