Tag: scientists

  • What you really are?

    There is no answer to “what you really are”. Because there is no answer to “what you really are”. There is only what you understand. What you create. And its what you create that answers what you are. Because that’s what you understand. Nobody talks what your mother is really like. She makes lovely pies.…

  • Happy birthday Scientists, James Joule.

    It’s the birthday of James Joule, who was born in 1818 in Salford, England. Joule was a commercial brewer in Manchester. His work inspired an interest in physics and in the nature of energy. In a series of experiments, he demonstrated the convertibility of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy. The SI energy unit, the joule,…

  • L. Susskind on Feynman. (vs Gellman on Feynman)

    Rather than the venom Murray Gellman was spewing on Feynman, this talk by L. Susskind is very balanced. It does not heap a load of self-created baloney about the personality of someone else because you don’t like them or you want to exhibit your pretension that you don’t. So much for being a scientist, luminaries…

  • Wolfram and Feynman, Why Feynman was meticulous ?

    Stephen Wolfram on Feynman; (Dr. Wolfram is in in my FB friend list, I am not tagging him, lets see if he finds us talking through him, about Feynman) (Wolfram) You’re a great speaker; what are you worrying about?” He (Feynman) said, “Yes, everyone thinks I’m a great speaker. So that means they expect more…

  • Why Feynman was liked by Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr (Nicholas Baker) Aage Bohr (Jim Baker) and Feynman.  Then the son told me what happened. The last time he was there, he said to his son, “Remember the name of that little fellow in the back over there? He’s the only guy who’s not afraid of me, and will say when I’ve got…