Epstein Secrets

ivity versus 312 program equivalence problem 250 programmer 235, 238, 263 programming geniuses 271 super-programmers 266 progressive cipher 214 proof Feynman’s proof 157 indirect 244 mathematical 156 philosophical 246 Index 415 PSPACE problem 168 Pulitzer Prize 365, 367 purpose on the planet 9 puzzle tw

hotosynthesis 50, 124 physics 180 determinism 316 Picasso, Pablo 232, 246, 298 pit vipers 102 Pixar 306 Pla

drives creativity. There are also some myths to dispel about creative people. Inventors are portrayed as eccentric and hopelessly disorganized, but Feynman kept notes of every idea he ever had. I have kept a series of notebooks, now computer based, since J left university. I still have almost all of thes

create are truly wonderful. I’m thinking here of Picasso, Einstein, Mozart, Edison, or Maxwell, but a prec

seems to offer hope of a world where any dream, no matter how outlandish, is realizable. Other familiar names, Bohr, Schrodinger, Dirac, and later Feynman and Dyson, each made great leaps into the unknown. But they weren't alone. Physics is a collaborative discipline. Too often science stories are wr

teen years before Einstein developed his ideas on space and time, but his paintings make it clear that our perceptions of the world are subjective. Picasso may have had the chutzpah to claim that he painted what he saw, even as he produced representations of disjointed people with body parts pointing i