Why does Paulie like to find fault?

Wolfgang Pauli is an Austrian physicist. He was a rare genius at the beginning of the 20th century and made outstanding contributions to the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Pauli exclusion principle.

Pauli wrote a summary paper on the theoretical and experimental results of general relativity at the age of 19. It was only three years before Einstein published his "General Theory of Relativity". His original ideas shocked the whole physics circle and became famous in one fell swoop.

Pauli is famous for his preciseness and erudition, and also for his sharpness and picky. It is said that Pauli met Einstein at an international conference. After Einstein's speech, Pauli stood up and said, "I don't think Einstein is completely stupid."

Once, when Italian physicist segre finished his report and left the meeting room with Pauli and others, Pauli said to him, "I have never heard such a bad report as yours." Segre didn't say anything at that time (later he discovered antiprotons). Pauli thought for a moment, then turned to Brescher, a Swiss physical chemist who was traveling with them, and said, "If you give a report, the situation will be even worse. Of course, except for your opening remarks in Zurich last time. "

Another time Paulie wanted to go to a place, but she didn't know how to get there. He asked his colleagues, who told him. Afterwards, colleagues asked him if he had found that place that day, but he sarcastically said, "When you don't talk about physics, you should think clearly."

Pauli is also rude to his students. Once a student wrote a paper for Pauli to review. Two days later, the students asked Pauli what he thought of the paper. Paulie returned the paper to him and said, "Even mistakes are not enough."

But Bohr, a famous physicist, called Pauli "the conscience of physics", because of his sensitivity and caution, he could find mistakes at a glance. In the field of physics, there is also a joke that there is a "Pauli effect"-when Pauli appears, people there will definitely make mistakes whether doing theoretical deduction or experimental operation.

When Paulie says "Oh, there's nothing wrong with it", it usually means a very high compliment. There is a joke that Paulie went to see God after his death, and God showed him his own design plan for the world. After reading it, Paulie shrugged and said, "You could have done better ..."