Джеймс Глик - Genius - The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

384 HE TURNED DOWN HONORARY DEGREES: George W.

Beadle to Feynman, 4 January 1967, and Wil iam J.

McGil to Feynman, 16 February 1976, CIT.

3 8 4 INTRODUCE A DRAFT OF FRESH AIR: Martin Mann to Feynman, 13 September 1962, and reply, CIT.

384 HE REFUSED TO SIGN PETITIONS: E.g., Feynman to Margaret Gardiner, 15 May 1967, CIT.

385 THE COMMENT YOU SENT BACK WITH OUR QUESTIONNAIRE: R.

Hobart El is, Jr., to Feynman, 25 August 1966, and reply, CIT.

385 FEYNMAN HID BEHIND HER DOOR: Helen Tuck, interview, Pasadena.

385 A DISCRETIONARY KITTY: Goldberger, interview.

386 IT MUST HAVE BEEN VERY DIFFICULT: Holton, interview.

386 HANS BETHE TURNED SIXTY: R. E. Marshak to Feynman, 11 May 1965, and reply, CIT.

386 DON’T LET ANYBODY CRITICIZE: Feynman to James D.

Watson, 10 February 1967, CIT.

387 IT IS OF COURSE A YANG-MILLS THEORY: Gel -Mann 1983a, 3.

387 BY THE WAY, SOME PEOPLE: Ibid.

388 THE POINT WAS HARDLY LOST: As Gel -Mann said at a memorial service for Feynman in 1989: “Everybody knows that Richard didn’t think one should be able to tel the difference between one bird and another…. He tried to show in yet another way that he could stand out from the herd—like not being a birdwatcher.” Talk at Feynman memorial, San Francisco, 18 January 1989.

388 SITS CALMLY BEHIND HIS DESK: Riordan 1987, 192.

389 MURRAY’S MASK WAS A MAN: Coleman, interview.

390 ZWEIG, FAR MORE VULNERABLE: Zweig 1981.

390 THEIR PALPITANT PIPING, CHIRRUP: Quoted in Crease and Mann 1986, 185.

391 THE CONCRETE QUARK MODEL: Zweig, interview.

391 IT IS FUN TO SPECULATE ABOUT THE WAY QUARKS : Gel -Mann 1964.

391 I ALWAYS CONSIDERED THAT TO BE A CODED MESSAGE :

Polkinghome 1989, 110.

391 FOR GELL-MANN THIS BECAME: “People have deliberately misunderstood this for twenty-seven years.” Gel -Mann, interview.

391 I’VE ALWAYS TAKEN AN ATTITUDE: F-W, I -26.

391 AT FIRST HIS SYLLABUS CONTAINED: Zweig, interview; F-W, I -15.

392 A SINGLE BUBBLE CHAMBER: Traweek 1988, 52–53.

392 LIKE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A POCKET WATCH : Quoted in Riordan 1987, 151–52.

392 THE PHYSICISTS WHO WOULD GATHER: Riordan 1987, 149.

393 HE ISOLATED A REMARKABLE REGULARITY: Bjorken 1989, 57; Bjorken, telephone interview.

393 OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: “Each of the hypothetical point-like constituents of the nucleon that were invoked by R. P. Feynman to explain the way the nucleon inelastical y scatters electrons of very high energy.” A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 279.

394 QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS HAD ITS PARTONS: Feynman 1969b, 241.

394 HE CHOSE NOT TO DECIDE: Feynman to Michael Riordan, 26 February 1986, CIT.

394 WHEN FEYNMAN DIAGRAMS ARRIVED: Bjorken 1989, 56.

394 FEYNMAN TOOK ON A PROJECT IN 1970: Feynman et al.

1971.

395 CONVERTED INTO A QUARKERIAN: F-W, I -47.

395 A QUARK PICTURE MAY ULTIMATELY PERVADE : Feynman et al. 1971, 2727.

3 9 5 HE DISLIKED THE FANFARE: “These things were quarks

and antiquarks (and sometimes gluons), but he didn’t want to cal them by their names. At first, he wasn’t sure that that’s what they were, but as time went on it became clearer, and it annoyed me that he stil didn’t acknowledge that he was talking about quarks.

Eventual y, some authors began to speak of ‘quark partons,’ but as if they were somehow different from ordinary current quarks.

“The so-cal ed parton model was an approximate description of quarks and gluons that could apply in the appropriate high-energy limits if the interaction of the particles became weak at short distances (as turned out to be the case in quantum chromodynamics). Dick painted a naïve picture, which was taken not just as an approximation to an unknown theory, but as a kind of revealed truth.

“Physicists al over the world learned the ‘parton’

story, memorized it, and immediately began to use it to interpret experiments. In other words Dick has oversimplified the picture so that it could be used by everybody.” Gel -Mann, personal communication.

395 WE HAVE BUILT A VERY TALL HOUSE OF CARDS : Feynman 1972c.

395 I’M A LITTLE BIT FRUSTRATED: F-W, I -86.

396 QUIETLY NOMINATED GELL-MANN AND ZWEIG: They never knew it. B. Wagel to Feynman, 26 January 1977, CIT.

Gel -Mann, Zweig, interviews.

396 JEE-JEE-JEE-JU-JU. JEE-JEE-JEE-JU-JU: F-L.

396 IT TOOK YEARS FOR FEYNMAN’S CHILDREN: Michel e

Feynman,

Carl

Feynman,

Gweneth

Feynman,

interviews.

397 RICHARD, I’M COLD: Leighton, interview.

397 I COULD HAVE KILLED HIM: Feynman to Sheila Sorenson, 21 October 1974, CIT. 397 TRUMPET PLAYING—SOCIAL

WORKER—ZYGOPHALATELIST: Feynman to Carl Feynman, 18 February 1980, PERS.

397 AFTER MUCH EFFORT AT UNDERSTANDING: Ibid.

398 WHAT MAKES IT MOVE: Feynman 1966a.

398 TO TELL A FIRST-GRADER: Ibid., 14.

398 YOU SAY, “WITHOUT USING": Ibid., 15.

398 SHOE LEATHER WEARS OUT: Ibid., 16.

398 FEYNMAN TAUGHT THIRTY-FOUR: D. Goodstein 1989, 73.

399 I COULDN’T REDUCE IT: Ibid. 75.

399 IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE USE OF WORDS: Feynman 1964a, 16.

400 I DOUBT THAT ANY CHILD: Ibid., 3.

401 MICHELLE LEARNED THAT HE HAD A THOUSAND : Michel e Feynman, interview.

401 OH YES, WE DO: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

401 TRAVELING IN THE SWISS ALPS: Gweneth Feynman, interview.

402 FEYNMAN’S TUMOR: C. M. Haskel , interview, Los Angeles.

402 FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL RATES : Sheldon C. Binder, Bertram Katz,

and

Barry

Sheridan,

“Retroperitoneal

Liposarcoma,” Annals of Surgery, March 1978, 260.

402 YOU ARE OLD, FATHER FEYNMAN: “Father Feynman,” n.d., CIT.

402 WITH A POSTDOCTORAL STUDENT : Feynman et al. 1977; Field and Feynman 1977; Field and Feynman 1978.

403 FEYNMAN DID NOT REALIZE THAT FIELD: Richard Field, telephone interview.

403 I DON’T GET ANY PHYSICS: Victor F. Weisskopf to Feynman, 23 March 1979, CIT.

403 QCD FIELD THEORY WITH SIX FLAVORS: “Qualitative Behavior,” typescript for Feynman 1981, CIT.

404 VASCULAR INCIDENT: In Chang Kim, interview, Pasadena.

404 FEYNMAN NEEDED SEVENTY-EIGHT PINTS: Haskel , interview. Gweneth Feynman, interview.

404 IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK: Cvitanović, interview.

404 MY WIFE: Douglas R. Hofstadter, telephone interview.

405 I HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING : Feynman to Robert B. Leighton, 10 June 1974, CIT.

405 WHAT THE HELL IS FEYNMAN INVITED FOR: Feynman to Sidney Coleman, 13 August 1976, CIT.

405 ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE: Coleman to Feynman, 26

July 1976, CIT.

405 AGGRESSIVE DOPINESS: Carl Feynman, interview.

406 HE LISTENED PATIENTLY AS BABA RAM DAS: SYJ, 303–5.

4 0 6 PEOPLE IN HIGHER ECHELONS: He titled the talk, “Los Alamos from Below.” Feynman 1975, 105.

406 STILL, HE WOULD EMERGE: SYJ, 306.

406 SPORADICALLY, HE WORKED : E.g., Jon N. Leonard to Feynman, 3 November 1987, and Peter H. Hambling to Feynman, 4 August 1987, CIT.

407 ARE WE PHYSICS GIANTS: Feynman to Philip Morrison, 23

May

1972,

CIT.

407 MYSTICISM,

EXPANDED

CONSCIOUSNESS: SYJ, 309.

407 IT HAS TO DO WITH THE QUESTION: Videotape, courtesy of Ralph Leighton.

4 0 7 PEACE OF MIND AND ENJOYMENT: Quoted in Leighton 1991, 83–84.

408 IT SEEMED TO GWENETH: Gweneth Feynman, interview; Wil iam G. Bradley, interview.

408 BUT YOU CAN’T SEE: Feynman to Wil iam G. Bradley, 13

July 1984, CIT.

409 OKAY, START YOUR WATCH: Weiner, interview.

409 A RECORD OF THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK: F-W, I -4.

410 TODAY I WENT OVER TO THE HUNTINGTON: F-L.

410 AND THE NEXT MORNING, ALL RIGHT: Ibid.