Dear Mr. Niels Bohr,
On this
tewlfty-seventh (read 127) anniversary of your birth, I want to wish you a very
Happy Birthday wherever you may be. I feel obligated to write this as my thanks
for your contributions to helping the world understand quantum mechanics. You
see, without those contributions, quantum information and computing would not
be concepts to contemplate about thereby making my current area of work for my
doctorate non existent!
Of
course, as I always wanted to be a Computer Scientist, I would be hacking away
for my part in the forest of Classical Theoretical Computer Science problems.
However, as you well know, the 'quantum' aspect adds so much spice, mystery and
wonder to those same problems, that I am
thrilled to be working in the non-classical 'quantum' setting.
Reading
your reply to EPR's 1935 paper on the completeness of the quantum view of
reality, was an excellent exercise both to grow my depth of knowledge and also ponder about it philosophically
while trying to understand that 'intrinsic randomness' is here to stay and in
fact has always been there waiting for us to discover it.
This may
be an insignificant drop of recognition
amongst the sea of your prestigious awards and decorations but please do accept
the heartfelt thanks of a wide-eyed-just-starting-on-her-PhD-journey student of
science and let me conclude with: So long and thanks for all... your work,
insight and fight to discover/prove the existence of quantum mechanics
Yours
truly,
PS: Mr
Bohr, Mr Einstein and any other readers of this letter are very welcome to
correct/point out any errors in the scientific points/facts in this letter
(Hopefully there are non).
