Epstein Secrets

t, as much as it may have seemed in theory or drills or in midnight massacres in the African bush, some steam-press built for cold rolling the armies Belgium and Prussia and France. In fact, the weapons encouraged battle as they piled endlessly in national arsenals. They tickled fears of fast or surprise a

was the time that Hillis asked Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman to tip him off about any smart scientists Thinking Machines might hire. Feynman, pushing 60, volunteered himself and spent his summer vacations for the next ten years with Hillis and his team.1?! When it came time to test the fir

-like) was so foreign to the common understanding of light as an electromagnetic wave that Planck balked. Only six years later, at a con- ference in Belgium, the Solvay Conference, which later became famous, was Einstein finally able to convince Planck that the classical picture of light had to be aband

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

ever ask in a big auditorium full of people, as I have, for the Belgians to raise their hands, almost no one ever does. Except when I lectured in Belgium, as I did recently, and where I learned my analogy was not appreciated. 2P_Gtealer-StoryEverTold_Atird6 98 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00286018 Chapt

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