William Happer

He didn't make very much progress because it's much harder than quantum mechanics or much harder than relativity to solve those equations.

And so one of his students supposedly said to him, well, you know, Professor Heisenberg, they say that if you've been a good physicist when you die and you go to heaven, that the Almighty allows you to ask two questions, and he will answer any question you ask.

And what will you ask him?

And Heisenberg supposedly said, well, I will ask him why general relativity

And why turbulence?

Turbulence is the Navier-Stokes equation.

He says, and I think he will be able to answer the first one.

Well, you know, they're asking you to have great confidence in a calculation involving this miserable equation that is so hard to solve, at least very far into the future.

You can solve it for a short time, but it's very hard to go much further.

One of Dick's colleagues at MIT—

a man named Lorenz.

Why don't you tell them about Lorenz?

Yeah, the typical description of this theory was that it's as though a butterfly flapping its wings in the Gulf of Alaska causes hurricanes two years later in Florida.

Don't say that.

I don't think it works that way.

I think that's how it will end, yes.

I think Britain or Germany may be the sacrificial country.

Right.

All of their nuclear power plants.

Well, I think they did it because of the Fukushima thing and because the Green Party is so powerful in Germany.