13 - Wolfgang Pauli, Unlucky Numbers, and the Problem of Chanceed project
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13 - Wolfgang Pauli, Unlucky Numbers, and the Problem of Chanceed project
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Welcome to Episode 13 of Quantum on the Treadmill.
And because this is Episode 13, I thought we should probably talk about bad luck.
Thirteen has had a strange hold on human imagination for centuries. Buildings skip the thirteenth floor. Hotels avoid room 13. Friday the 13th has become shorthand for a day when things are somehow more likely to go wrong.
Of course, rationally, we know that makes no sense.
There is nothing physically different about the number 13. It cannot make an elevator malfunction. It cannot cause your flight to be delayed. It cannot make you lose your keys.
But if something bad does happen on the 13th, we notice it.
And we remember it.
That is what makes superstition interesting. It may tell us less about the universe than it tells us about how human beings deal with uncertainty.
Which brings us back to an old friend in this series: Wolfgang Pauli.
We have already talked about Pauli and his enormous contribution to quantum mechanics, particularly the exclusion principle. So I am not going to retell that story here.
Instead, I want to talk about another principle associated with his name.
One that definitely did not win him a Nobel Prize.
His colleagues called it the Pauli Effect.