Yesterday would have been Richard Feynman’s 95th birthday; though he was a theoretical physicist, dealing with the universe at the smallest levels, he had an astounding manner in explaining some of the most complex ideas in the ‘simplest’ terms. His unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding comes across in his two autobiographies: ” surely you’re joking Mr Feynman” & “what do you care what other people think!”.
A bongo drummer too! He worked at Los Alamos during WWII working under the greats of nuclear physics: Oppenheimer and Fermi. He won the Nobel Prize for his work on QED quantum electromagnetic dynamics, which when asked by a reporter to explain in a minute what that was replied: “if I could explain that in a minute it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize in Physics”.
His Feynman diagrams are legend: a graphic equation. Seen here daubed on the family transport a ’75 Dodge van.
Apologies to the two-wheeled enthusiasts for this digression but physics is a subject of great interest to me; and indeed it explains how a motorcycle stays up when at speed; whether zooming along in a straight line or careening around a corner. Let’s finish on a thought from Dickie:
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