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|content=Why am I brought up on the names Einstein, Dirac, Heisenberg, Feynman, Weinberg, etc ....and not flippin' Yang??? Yang=Da Man.
|content=Why am I brought up on the names Einstein, Dirac, Heisenberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]], Weinberg, etc ....and not flippin' Yang??? Yang=Da Man.
|timestamp=1:59 AM ¡ Aug 12, 2009
|timestamp=1:59 AM ¡ Aug 12, 2009
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|content=Fascinated by Feynman fans who don't realize he would have humiliated them just to steal their wives at the end of the seminar.
|content=Fascinated by [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] fans who don't realize he would have humiliated them just to steal their wives at the end of the seminar.
|timestamp=2:32 PM ¡ Sep 5, 2009
|timestamp=2:32 PM ¡ Sep 5, 2009
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|content=Q: Was Feynman initially incapable of explaining his theory at a technical or a sociological level? (e.g. w/ Bohr, Oppenheimer)
|content=Q: Was [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] initially incapable of explaining his theory at a technical or a sociological level? (e.g. w/ Bohr, Oppenheimer)
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|content=Here's something I never got. Why did Feynman need Dyson to explain his theory? Did he? Or did he just need a non-Feynman?
|content=Here's something I never got. Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] need Dyson to explain his theory? Did he? Or did he just need a non-Feynman?
|timestamp=5:39 AM ¡ Sep 23, 2009
|timestamp=5:39 AM ¡ Sep 23, 2009
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|content=I understand the Dyson added value by tying together Schwinger with Feynman. But it seems like RF couldn't get past the resistance.
|content=I understand the Dyson added value by tying together Schwinger with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]. But it seems like [[Richard Feynman|RF]] couldn't get past the resistance.
|timestamp=5:43 AM ¡ Sep 23, 2009
|timestamp=5:43 AM ¡ Sep 23, 2009
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|content=Q1: Why did Feynman ask to be removed from the National Academy of Sciences?  
|content=Q1: Why did [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] ask to be removed from the National Academy of Sciences?  
Q2: How common is that?
Q2: How common is that?
|timestamp=3:59 AM ¡ Sep 27, 2009
|timestamp=3:59 AM ¡ Sep 27, 2009
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|content=Debating whether to remind actual physicists of the role of experimenters in the Tau-Theta circus. Feynman's take: http://www.gorgorat.com/
|content=Debating whether to remind actual physicists of the role of experimenters in the Tau-Theta circus. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] take: http://www.gorgorat.com/
|timestamp=10:52 PM ¡ Nov 11, 2009
|timestamp=10:52 PM ¡ Nov 11, 2009
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|content=Oppenheimer's famous repeating of Wigner's calling Feynman 'a second Dirac' somehow managed to do no service to any of these heros. #nofecta
|content=Oppenheimer's famous repeating of Wigner's calling [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] 'a second Dirac' somehow managed to do no service to any of these heros. #nofecta
|timestamp=5:37 PM ¡ Dec 1, 2009
|timestamp=5:37 PM ¡ Dec 1, 2009
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|content="There have been many conferences in the world since, but I've never felt any to be as important as this." -R.Feynman on Shelter Island 1947
|content="There have been many conferences in the world since, but I've never felt any to be as important as this." -[[Richard Feynman|R.Feynman]] on [[Shelter Island Conference (1947)|Shelter Island 1947]]
|timestamp=3:09 PM ¡ Feb 9, 2010
|timestamp=3:09 PM ¡ Feb 9, 2010
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|content=How GREAT science really looks at the brink. Wrong/Uncredentialed/Glorious. Teller-Gamow-Feynman on genes: http://bit.ly/dcbIxa
|content=How GREAT science really looks at the brink. Wrong/Uncredentialed/Glorious. Teller-Gamow-[[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] on genes: http://bit.ly/dcbIxa
|timestamp=2:34 AM ¡ Feb 16, 2010
|timestamp=2:34 AM ¡ Feb 16, 2010
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|content=Lamentably, ZZ Top took its name from bluesmen BB King/ZZ Hill rather than a Feynman diag. scattering heavy hadrons by neutral currents.
|content=Lamentably, ZZ Top took its name from bluesmen BB King/ZZ Hill rather than a [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] diag. scattering heavy hadrons by neutral currents.
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|content=The battle for primacy in physics between Hamilton & Lagrange was largely decided by Richard Feynman. But ZZ Top didn't hurt.
|content=The battle for primacy in physics between Hamilton & Lagrange was largely decided by [[Richard Feynman]]. But ZZ Top didn't hurt.
|timestamp=12:16 PM ¡ Feb 24, 2010
|timestamp=12:16 PM ¡ Feb 24, 2010
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|content="In what sense is what happens at one place in a string independent of what happens at another?" -Feynman's last BBoard http://bit.ly/FStrng
|content="In what sense is what happens at one place in a string independent of what happens at another?" -[[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] last BBoard http://bit.ly/FStrng
|timestamp=5:05 AM ¡ Mar 3, 2010
|timestamp=5:05 AM ¡ Mar 3, 2010
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|content="Take a risk w/ your lives that you will never be heard of again, & go off in the wild blue yonder & see if you can figure it out."R.Feynman
|content="Take a risk w/ your lives that you will never be heard of again, & go off in the wild blue yonder & see if you can figure it out."[[Richard Feynman|R.Feynman]]
|timestamp=5:34 AM ¡ Mar 9, 2010
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|content=Ron Unz was one of the smartest & most arrogant young people I met in HS.  
|content=Ron Unz was one of the smartest & most arrogant young people I met in HS.  


One lunch, Feynman ate him for breakfast: http://bit.ly/aUmlvz
One lunch, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] ate him for breakfast: http://bit.ly/aUmlvz
|timestamp=4:22 AM ¡ May 12, 2010
|timestamp=4:22 AM ¡ May 12, 2010
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|content=If I recall correctly, "Foo" in pig latin is the name Feynman used to sign his artworks. #foocamp #foo
|content=If I recall correctly, "Foo" in pig latin is the name [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] used to sign his artworks. #foocamp #foo
|timestamp=5:58 PM ¡ Jun 25, 2010
|timestamp=5:58 PM ¡ Jun 25, 2010
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|content=Feynman's 10 year correspondence oddessy to resign from the National Academy of Sciences (1959-1969): http://bit.ly/9Axzu9
|content=[[Richard Feynman|Feynman's]] 10 year correspondence oddessy to resign from the National Academy of Sciences (1959-1969): http://bit.ly/9Axzu9
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|content="I detest the National Academy of Sciences. I didn't have the guts to resign as Feynman did." -Freeman Dyson ABD, (All But Dissertation)
|content="I detest the National Academy of Sciences. I didn't have the guts to resign as [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] did." -Freeman Dyson ABD, (All But Dissertation)
|timestamp=6:02 PM ¡ Jul 21, 2010
|timestamp=6:02 PM ¡ Jul 21, 2010
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|content=The subordination of the insobordinate elite:  
|content=The subordination of the insobordinate elite:  
"That Feynman is becoming a real pain"
"That [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] is becoming a real pain"
http://bit.ly/moDE (as appendix F)
http://bit.ly/moDE (as appendix F)
|timestamp=10:34 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2010
|timestamp=10:34 PM ¡ Sep 1, 2010
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|content=Oddly, a mural to R. Feynman is built directly into the Ross 'dress for less' at 449 Shoppers Ln Pasadena CA, visible in Google StreetView,
|content=Oddly, a mural to [[Richard Feynman|R. Feynman]] is built directly into the Ross 'dress for less' at 449 Shoppers Ln Pasadena CA, visible in Google StreetView,
|timestamp=11:48 AM ¡ Feb 8, 2011
|timestamp=11:48 AM ¡ Feb 8, 2011
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|content=@BikeMath @CIA Dunno. It's often amazing what a single toxic person can do: R Feynman, M Davis, J Watson, W Pauli, etc... Not a short list.
|content=@BikeMath @CIA Dunno. It's often amazing what a single toxic person can do: [[Richard Feynman|R Feynman]], M Davis, [[Jim Watson|J Watson]], W Pauli, etc... Not a short list.
|timestamp=8:06 PM ¡ Dec 12, 2016
|timestamp=8:06 PM ¡ Dec 12, 2016
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|content=@Aaron__FF Jim Watson rules for succeeding in science. Feynman and Einstein's prose. Double helix and 8th day of creation. Shape of space.
|content=@Aaron__FF Jim Watson rules for succeeding in science. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and [[Albert Einstein|Einstein's]] prose. Double helix and 8th day of creation. Shape of space.
|timestamp=7:18 AM ¡ Jan 27, 2017
|timestamp=7:18 AM ¡ Jan 27, 2017
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|content=Arguably the second greatest physicist of the 20th century as drawn by another in the top tier (some would argue, top 5). Quite an honor.
|content=Arguably the second greatest physicist of the 20th century as drawn by another in the top tier (some would argue, top 5). Quite an honor.


The pair (Dirac & Feynman) are pictured at right. Dirac's odd leaning posture always reminds me: introverts need space from extroverts. https://t.co/P0Bjnuy6Hu
The pair ([[Paul Dirac|Dirac]] & [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]]) are pictured at right. Dirac's odd leaning posture always reminds me: introverts need space from extroverts. https://t.co/P0Bjnuy6Hu
|timestamp=10:52 PM ¡ May 31, 2018
|timestamp=10:52 PM ¡ May 31, 2018
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|content=@rcanacci @skdh Begin with Dirac, Einstein, Yang, Maxwell, Noether, Newton, Hamilton, Stuckelberg, Feynman as principle authors of the most fundamental equations and principles. And I'm not sure I am not stretching it slightly to appear broad minded.
|content=@rcanacci @skdh Begin with Dirac, Einstein, Yang, Maxwell, Noether, Newton, Hamilton, Stuckelberg, [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] as principle authors of the most fundamental equations and principles. And I'm not sure I am not stretching it slightly to appear broad minded.
|timestamp=8:34 PM ¡ Jun 28, 2018
|timestamp=8:34 PM ¡ Jun 28, 2018
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|content=Was not expecting to bump into one of the most inspiring scientists of our time. Freeman Dyson’s trajectory is a life to study. In particular his defeat of Oppenheimer’s opposition to Feynman’s Sum-Over-Historys at the @the_IAS taught me a lot about how great minds spar. https://t.co/WVBS8FFSyo
|content=Was not expecting to bump into one of the most inspiring scientists of our time. Freeman Dyson’s trajectory is a life to study. In particular his defeat of Oppenheimer’s opposition to [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] Sum-Over-Historys at the @the_IAS taught me a lot about how great minds spar. https://t.co/WVBS8FFSyo
|timestamp=6:20 PM ¡ Oct 16, 2018
|timestamp=6:20 PM ¡ Oct 16, 2018
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Great Brain Series</br>
Great Brain Series</br>
Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman</br>
[[Richard Feynman|Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman]]</br>
Pippi Longstocking Series</br>
Pippi Longstocking Series</br>
The Double Helix</br>
The Double Helix</br>
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|content=@willwilkinson @seanilling It’s not all Feels. Look at E8 and tell me how you “feel”. Who came up with that? Killing? Freudenthal? Lie? No way. Not even Grothedieck and Witten with Feynman and Von Neumann’s help. None of us know what it is. Is hemoglobin socially constructed? Who asks this? No one I know.
|content=@willwilkinson @seanilling It’s not all Feels. Look at E8 and tell me how you “feel”. Who came up with that? Killing? Freudenthal? Lie? No way. Not even Grothedieck and [[Ed Witten|Witten]] with [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and Von Neumann’s help. None of us know what it is. Is hemoglobin socially constructed? Who asks this? No one I know.
|timestamp=6:42 AM ¡ May 9, 2019
|timestamp=6:42 AM ¡ May 9, 2019
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|content=Thoughts on where we are and why we are stuck. Also, the parable of Feynman and the Rogers Challenger Commission. https://t.co/uSXbLAaxVV
|content=Thoughts on where we are and why we are stuck. Also, the parable of [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] and the Rogers Challenger Commission. https://t.co/uSXbLAaxVV
|timestamp=10:08 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2020
|timestamp=10:08 PM ¡ Apr 25, 2020
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Isadore Singer</br>
Isadore Singer</br>
R Gomory</br>
R Gomory</br>
R Feynman</br>
[[Richard Feynman|R Feynman]]</br>
And on &amp; on &amp; on...
And on &amp; on &amp; on...
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|content=“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.” -[[Richard Feynman|Richard P Feynman]]  
|content=“Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.” -[[Richard Feynman|Richard P Feynman]]  


[[Morals|Moral]]: A little Feynman is a dangerous thing.
[[Morals|Moral]]: A little [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] is a dangerous thing.
|timestamp=3:44 PM ¡ Mar 13, 2021
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|content=They were smart. We were smart. They had Spassky, We had Fischer.  They had Shostakovich, we had Van Cliburn. Vysotsky v Dylan. Landau v Feynman.
|content=They were smart. We were smart. They had Spassky, We had Fischer.  They had Shostakovich, we had Van Cliburn. Vysotsky v Dylan. Landau v [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]].


That was a long time ago now.
That was a long time ago now.
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|content=This is a description of how [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] brilliant “Sum Over Histories” technique went over at the Pocono conference in the spring of 1948. Feynman wasn’t able to explain what he was doing to even the world’s very top experts in Theoretical Physics!
|content=This is a description of how [[Richard Feynman|Feynman’s]] brilliant “Sum Over Histories” technique went over at the Pocono conference in the spring of 1948. [[Richard Feynman|Feynman]] wasn’t able to explain what he was doing to even the world’s very top experts in Theoretical Physics!


And how did he explain failure?
And how did he explain failure?
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|content=Yes. I’m saying that the Jim Simons, Richard Feynman, Jim Watson, Steven Weinberg, Sidney Coleman, Ken Arrow, Linus Pauling, Isadore Singer, Joshua Lederberg, Steve Smale, Paul Samuelson, Mark Ptashne, John Milnor, model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed.
|content=Yes. I’m saying that the [[Jim Simons]], [[Richard Feynman]], [[Jim Watson]], [[Steven Weinberg]], [[Sidney Coleman]], [[Ken Arrow]], [[Linus Pauling]], [[Isadore Singer]], [[Joshua Lederberg]], [[Steve Smale]], [[Paul Samuelson]], [[Mark Ptashne]], [[John Milnor]], model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed.
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|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it.
|content=Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesn’t seem it.


Science needs academic freedom. It needs resources. It needs independence.  
Science needs [[Academic Freedom|academic freedom]]. It needs resources. It needs independence.  


Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy.
Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy.
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