Epstein Secrets

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

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016060 Chapter 17 THE FUTURE Be + Omar Khayyam HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016061 “Prediction is very hard, especially about the future.” Niels Bohr “The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash o

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

rns at every step. The story of the development of quan- tum mechanics is full of them. But I want to cut to the chase here, and so I will skip over Niels Bohr, whose ideas laid out the first fundamental atomic rules of the quantum world as well as the basis for much of modern chemis- try. We'll also skip E

rative for antimatter came through the work of one of the most important physi- cists of the latter half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman. Feynman could not have been more different from Dirac. While 97 2P_Glealer-StoryEverrold_Atindd 97 12/1006 3:06 PM EFTA00286019 98 THE GREATEST STORY

York City, where he accepted a position at Columbia. When Fermi learned the news about nuclear fission in 1939 in New York, following a lecture by Niels Bohr at Princeton, Fermi amended his earlier Nobel acceptance speech to clarify his earlier error and in short order re- 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atindd