Richard Feynman

[kiauma]

Richard Feynman was indeed one of the exceptional people of the 20th century.   Even though he is not normally thought of in conjunction with paranormal studies, I am glad and not too surprised to hear there are connections.

There are several books about his life which are not only biographically interesting but actually great reading!  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman and What Do You Care What Other People Think? are the two classics, though there are many others.  He also wrote many seminal works on physics which can be followed without too much difficulty by the laymen (though of course the mathematics examples won't mean much).  

There are so many important events of the 20th century he was connected with, it would be hard to cover it in one book.  OF course he worked on 'The Bomb' at Los Alamos, but he was also the NASA investigator who blew the lid off the O-ring problem on the Space Shuttle Challenger, and his work on the modern state of physics is a guidebook still used by reserchers to point their research.  I could go on and on, but as Robert pointed out one of the most fascinating things about him was the kind of person he was.

Truly, he was the epitome of 20th century man, along with a few select others.  

Though I never met him, I miss him deeply.

[Anonymous]

RICHARD FEYNMAN:


I had the great pleasure of watching a movie called Infinity by Matthew Broderick and his wife. What a joy! To see a person whose father taught him to observe rather than codify or label in order to get marks or social acceptance. What a treat to see the ethics and honesty that made it difficult for him to lie to his lady even when all around them were pressuring him to do so when they thought she had Hodgkin's Lymphoma. What mastery of mind and reality to simply portray this exceptional couple as she thought first of how difficult it must have been for him to lie rather than what this terminal illness might do to her. But as usual the doctors were wrong and she had TB although it could have been discovered earlier and she might have lived if these doctors had not been trying to avoid saying what they thought.


When Feynman was at Los Alamos he danced spirit dances frequently; and he had been aware of the so-called paranormal all his life. In fact I believe I learned through the same methods he did – not in school. When he was at Princeton as a grad student the head of the Physics Department begged him to go with their government project as he said there are none like you anywhere. I loved hearing the care Robert Oppenheimer showed even though he had never met the young couple. I say that because his cousin John in London who offered to make me the head of his printing company showed that same kind of care for me.


Feynman died in 1988 before his partner John Wheeler met Steve Lynds who is now promoting an ancient Greek theory on Infinity. Wheeler supports Lynds who has no real formal education and that is to his credit. I must say there aren't enough people like willy Feynman and I wish there were a lot more. Thank you – the Brodericks.