What happens when you put sixty physicists in a room? You get a yo-yo. What, did you think I was going to say the destructive capability to annihilate all life on the planet? Close second. Physicists have shaped us from the moment we set forth to understand the world, to gathering the brightest minds in history to all work on the same project, all the way to the advent of toys like gyroscopes.
Today those innovations have led to nuclear reactors capable of warming water to steam to create enough electricity to power giant swaths of territory. More recently used to prove the existence of black holes and have the picture to prove it. In a race to the finish, physics always takes first place even with a Fat Man and Little Boy. The intertwined mysteries of the universe are as deep and complex as the strategies that can be played from the physicists grouping.
A perfect starter deck, or soon pull together different people to assemble a Manhattan project deck. With physicists on your side, you have access to some of the Greatest Minds in history in your own two hands. The ability of this team to win is anything but Theoretical. Each person in this deck is a winner all on their own but Physics isn’t a single-player field so let’s get them all together and get a little Experimental.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein; the master, the student, the teacher, the man who changed the world. Has ever a man been so successful in life that people who have no interest in his field of study quote them and use their name to measure intelligence?
Einstein made a grand theory of relativity on paper and proved it with a photo, forever changing how we observe the universe. Albert brought people together, both in his work and in his everyday life. Einstein’s moves are focused on bringing people together, making them better, and then blowing them all away… literally.
Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrodinger would like it to be known that he loved cats and did not put them in boxes anywhere except in his mind. He famously posed a thought experiment which included cats while talking to Albert Einstein about quantum mechanics. If that last sentence is confusing in the slightest, you’re not alone, just know that no cats were harmed by Schrodinger.
Schrodinger did much more with his life through Austria-Hungary, Ireland, England, and the United States as well as having a close relationship with intellectuals and universities in India. Erwin Schrodinger was tenacious and a team player, His moves are a combination of those principles and he may prove harder to discard than you anticipated.
Marie Curie & Pierre Curie
Marie and Pierre Curie whose love was as much a discovery as radium and glowed as brightly. Marie Curie was a woman of great renown, making her mark on physics while putting her own health and safety on the line earning her the honor of being the first woman buried beneath the Pantheon based on her own merit.
We wish to make it quite clear, though Marie and Pierre were together in life, in study, and in history; both of them were brilliant and capable on their own. History would have been greatly altered had either of them not been where they were at the right time. Also, fun fact, Marie was given her early physics education by her father and Pierre was also taught by his father who was a physician! Way to go historical dads!
Being a part of the great pantheon of Nobel Prize winners is nothing to turn your nose up at. The more of them you have the faster you can win! Marie and Pierre will get you to the goal twice as fast and with a healthy glow!
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi Italy gave America a great many people in our long history and Fermi was a brilliant man who became known as the “architect of the Nuclear age”. A master of both theoretical and experimental physics he was in attendance when three separate reactors went critical creating human made, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reactions.
He is also one of 16 scientists who have elements named after them and he directly influenced at least eight future Nobel prize winners. Fermi was a real team player, his Nobel Prize and his work on the Manhattan Project will both work to build you a team that will prove explosive!