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

box? Was the result of the decay measured by the Geiger counter, the cat, or are we waiting for someone to open the box and observe the result? The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics — named after the main center of early quantum theory at the Niels Bohr Institute — says the cat is both alive an

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

124 Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire 333 Contact 68 convergent thinking 300 Conway, John 173, 343 Conway's Game of Life 173 Cope, David 7 Copenhagen interpretation 327 Copernicus 42 Cormack, Allan 102 counter factual experiments 282 counting system 181 Coyle, Daniel 37 Craddock, Travis 50, 119, 1

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

with a thesis on the subject and continued to explore the issue for the next few years as a National Science Foundation post- doctoral researcher in Copenhagen. In his Nobel lecture twenty years later, Glashow indicated that he and Schwinger had planned to write a manuscript on the subject after Glashow gr

the problem if Veltman had not been obsessed with it, even as most others gave up. The notion that one might ultimately extend the techniques that Feynman and others had developed to tame quantum electrody- namics to try to understand more complex theories such as spontane- ously broken Yang-Mills theor

rary dorm there in their first semester before going their sepa- rate ways. While Glashow went to Harvard for graduate school, Wein- berg moved on to Copenhagen—where Glashow would spend time as a postdoc—before arriving at Princeton to complete his PhD. Both of them were on the faculty at Berkeley in the e