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impact on physics, was coincidentally born in the same year that Mi- chael Faraday made his great experimental discovery of induction. Like Newton, Maxwell also began his scientific career fascinated by color and light. Newton had explored the spectrum of visible colors into which white light splits wh

th a current of known magnitude. This force is proportional to the product of the currents. Let's call the constant of proportionality in this case B. Maxwell showed that the speed of an electromagnetic disturbance that emanates from an oscillating charge can be rendered precisely in terms of the measured

small scales, nature behaves in a way that human intuition cannot ever fully embrace, because we cannot directly experience the behavior itself. As Richard Feynman once argued, no one understands quantum mechanics—if by under- stand one means developing a concrete physical picture that appears fully intuitive.

He has served as a technical consultant on research and development projects for leading business, government, and defense organizations including GM, Ford, FMC, M, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Applied Materials, NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. He was CEO at Tekno

can we do about it." He is a former teaching assistant to Carl Sagan, and was a very close student and friend of the late legendary Nobel physicist Richard Feynman and Murray Gell- Mann. He is also the founder and President of a successful private consulting company: The Super Smart Consulting Network. For peop

. It was the first time that, purely on the basis of theoretical notions arising from mathematics, a new particle was predicted. Think about that. Maxwell had spostdicted" the existence of light as a result of his unification of electricity and magnetism. Le Verrier had predicted the existence of Nept

e most important in modern particle physics, is, not surprisingly, called the Dirac equation. (Some years later, when Dirac first met the physicist Richard Feynman, whom we shall come to shortly, Dirac said after another awkward silence, "I have an equation. Do you?") Dirac's equation was beautiful, and as th

Meissner and colleagues, explained by theorists Fritz and Heinz London two years later, which goes by the name the Meissner effect. As Faraday and Maxwell discovered sixty years earlier, electric charges respond in different ways to magnetic and electric fields. In par- ticular, Faraday discovered that

tion. Still, questions remained, especially given the apparent disagree- ment with the Seattle/Oxford results. At a talk at Caltech on the subject, Richard Feynman, characteristically, homed in on a key outstanding ex- perimental question and asked whether the SLAC experimentalists had checked that the detector

mbitions for cybernetic concepts, however, and in 7he Human Use of Human Beings he spells out his thoughts on its application to topics as diverse as Maxwell’s Demon, human language, the brain, insect metabolism, the legal system, the role of technological innovation in government, and religion. These broa

Afterwords, which were very much on their wavelength. I jumped at the opportunity, the main reason being that the keynote speaker was none other than Richard Feynman. I love 12 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016815 to spend time with physicists, the reason being that they think about the universe, 1.e. everything. And no phys

n around since the Enlightenment (boosted by the Industrial Revolution). The names in this lineage include Descartes, Leibniz, Sadi Carnot, Clausius, Maxwell, and Watt. Wiener’s coinage nonetheless had profound cultural effects.4”7 The ubiquity today of the prefix “cyber-” confirms the desire for a crisp s

hine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had

mbitions for cybernetic concepts, however, and in 7he Human Use of Human Beings he spells out his thoughts on its application to topics as diverse as Maxwell’s Demon, human language, the brain, insect metabolism, the legal system, the role of technological innovation in government, and religion. These broa

Afterwords, which were very much on their wavelength. I jumped at the opportunity, the main reason being that the keynote speaker was none other than Richard Feynman. I love 12 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016232 to spend time with physicists, the reason being that they think about the universe, 1.e. everything. And no phys

n around since the Enlightenment (boosted by the Industrial Revolution). The names in this lineage include Descartes, Leibniz, Sadi Carnot, Clausius, Maxwell, and Watt. Wiener’s coinage nonetheless had profound cultural effects.4”7 The ubiquity today of the prefix “cyber-” confirms the desire for a crisp s

hine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had