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2002-08-25

Preface

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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One day I got a telephone call: "Mister, are you Richard Feynman?" "Yes." "This is a hotel. We have a radio that doesn't work, and would like it repaired. We understand you might be able to do something about it." "But I'm only a little boy," I said. "I don't know how —" "Yes, we know that, but we'd like you to come over anyway." It was a hotel that my aunt was running, but I didn't know that. I went over there with — they still tell the story — a big screwdriver in my back pocket. Well, I was small, so any screwdriver looked big in my back pocket.

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String Beans

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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"Oh, yeah!" I said. "I took the door. You can see the scratches on my knuckles here, that I got when my hands scraped against the wall as I was carrying it down into the basement." They weren't satisfied with my answer; in fact, they didn't believe me. The guys who took the first door had left so many clues — the handwriting on the signs, for instance — that they were soon found out. My idea was that when it was found out who stole the first door, everybody would think they also stole the other door. It worked perfectly: The guys who took the first door were pummeled and tortured and worked on by everybody, until finally, with much pain and difficulty, they convinced their tormentors that they had only taken one door, unbelievable as it might be.

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Part 2 The Princeton Years

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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"You'll be interested and amused to know that you are now talking to the chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation, whose staff consisted of one bottle-washer!" Part 2 The Princeton Years "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" When I was an undergraduate at MIT I loved it. I thought it was a great place, and I wanted to go to graduate school there too, of course. But when I went to Professor Slater and told him of my intentions, he said, "We won't let you in here." I said, "What?"

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Meeeeeeeeeee!

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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So it was to be my first technical talk, and Wheeler made arrangements with Eugene Wigner to put it on the regular seminar schedule. A day or two before the talk I saw Wigner in the hall. "Feynman," he said, "I think that work you're doing with Wheeler is very interesting, so I've invited Russell to the seminar." Henry Norris Russell, the famous, great astronomer of the day, was coming to the lecture! Wigner went on. "I think Professor von Neumann would also be interested." Johnny von Neumann was the greatest mathematician around. "And Professor Pauli is visiting from Switzerland, it so happens, so I've invited Professor Pauli to come" — Pauli was a very famous physicist — and by this time, I'm turning yellow. Finally, Wigner said, "Professor Einstein only rarely comes to our weekly seminars, but your work is so interesting that I've invited him specially, so he's coming, too."

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Mindreaders

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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But suddenly, when everything was going strong, I began to deliver the ants from the sugar to a different spot. The question now was, does the ant learn to go back to where it just came from, or does it go where it went the time before? After a while there were practically no ants going to the first place (which would take them to the sugar), whereas there were many ants at the second place, milling around, trying to find the sugar. So I figured out so far that they went where they just came from.

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Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.) | Глава 6

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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Some of the special problems I had at Los Alamos were rather interesting. One thing had to do with the safety of the plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Los Alamos was going to make the bomb, but at Oak Ridge they were trying to separate the isotopes of uranium — uranium 238 and uranium 235, the explosive one. They were just beginning to get infinitesimal amounts from an experimental thing of 235, and at the same time they were practicing the chemistry. There was going to be a big plant, they were going to have vats of the stuff, and then they were going to take the purified stuff and repurify and get it ready for the next stage. (You have to purify it in several stages.) So they were practicing on the one hand, and they were just getting a little bit of U235 from one of the pieces of apparatus experimentally on the other hand. And they were trying to learn how to assay it, to determine how much uranium 235 there is in it. Though we would send them instructions, they never got it right.

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Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.) | Глава 7

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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I realized that I could do the same thing to find the second number: As soon as I know the last number, I can turn the wheel around the other way and again, in lumps of five, push the second disc bit by bit until the bolt doesn't go down. The number just before would be the second number. If I were very patient I would be able to pick up all three numbers that way, but the amount of work involved in picking up the first number of the combination by this elaborate scheme would be much more than just trying the twenty possible first numbers with the other two numbers that you already know, when the filing cabinet is closed.

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Part 4

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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"Well, you're gonna bother me for maybe eight hours. I won't do it unless you make an attempt to call him." "OK, OK!" she said. She picked up the telephone and I went into the other room to look at the safe. There it was, that huge, steel safe, and its doors were wide open. I went back to the secretary. "It's open." "Marvelous!" she said, as she put down the phone. "No," I said, "it was already open." "Oh! I guess the property section was able to open it after all." I went down to the man in the property section. "I went up to the safe and it was already open."

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Any Questions?

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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And then there are the longer periods of time when not much is coming to you. You're not getting any ideas, and if you're doing nothing at all, it drives you nuts! You can't even say "I'm teaching my class." If you're teaching a class, you can think about the elementary things that you know very well. These things are kind of fun and delightful. It doesn't do any harm to think them over again. Is there a better way to present them? Are there any new problems associated with them? Are there any new thoughts you can make about them? The elementary things are easy to think about; if you can't think of a new thought, no harm done; what you thought about it before is good enough for the class. If you do think of something new, you're rather pleased that you have a new way of looking at it.

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Lucky Numbers

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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Then an announcement came over the loudspeaker. The flight to Rio was canceled, and there wouldn't be another one till next Tuesday — and I had to be in Rio on Monday, at the latest. I got all upset. "Maybe there's a cargo plane. I'll travel in a cargo plane," I said. "Professor!" they said, "It's really quite nice here in Recife. We'll show you around. Why don't you relax — you're in Brazil." That evening I went for a walk in town, and came upon a small crowd of people standing around a great big rectangular hole in the road — it had been dug for sewer pipes, or something — and there, sitting exactly in the hole, was a car. It was marvelous: it fitted absolutely perfectly, with its roof level with the road. The workmen hadn't bothered to put up any signs at the end of the day, and the guy had simply driven into it. I noticed a difference: When we'd dig a hole, there'd be all kinds of detour signs and flashing lights to protect us. There, they dig the hole, and when they're finished for the day, they just leave.

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Man of a Thousand Tongues

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

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"Fine," he says. "But unfortunately, I have to go to San Francisco this weekend, so you just mail me the results, and if you lose your four hundred dollars, I'll send you the money." The first schemes were designed to make him money by honest arithmetic. Now, he's going to be out of town. The only way he's going to make money on this scheme is not to send it — to be a real cheat. So I never accepted any of his offers. But it was very entertaining to see how he operated. The other thing that was fun in Las Vegas was meeting show girls. I guess they were supposed to hang around the bar between shows to attract customers. I met several of them that way, and talked to them, and found them to be nice people. People who say, "Show girls, eh?" have already made up their mind what they are! But in any group, if you look at it, there's all kinds of variety. For example, there was the daughter of a dean of an Eastern university. She had a talent for dancing and liked to dance; she had the summer off and dancing jobs were hard to find, so she worked as a chorus girl in Las Vegas. Most of the show girls were very nice, friendly people. They were all beautiful, and I just love beautiful girls. In fact, show girls were my real reason for liking Las Vegas so much.

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An Offer You Must Refuse

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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"Huh? When are the odds ever in your favor?" I asked incredulously. "It's really quite easy," he said. "I'm standing around a table, when some guy says, 'It's comin' out nine! It's gotta be a nine!' The guy's excited; he thinks it's going to be a nine, and he wants to bet. Now I know the odds for all the numbers inside out, so I say to him, 'I'll bet you four to three it's not a nine,' and I win in the long run. I don't bet on the table; instead, I bet with people around the table who have prejudices — superstitious ideas about lucky numbers."

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Thirteen Times

Писатель: Ричард Фейнман

Глава в томе: Вы, конечно, шутите, мистер Фейнман! (англ.)

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The next morning when I got to work I went to Wapstra, Boehm, and Jensen, and told them, "I've got it all worked out. Everything fits." Christy, who was there, too, said, "What beta-decay constant did you use?" "The one from So-and-So's book." "But that's been found out to be wrong. Recent measurements have shown it's off by 7 percent." Then I remember the 9 percent. It was like a prediction for me: I went home and got this theory that says the neutron decay should be off by 9 percent, and they tell me the next morning that, as a matter of fact, it's 7 percent changed. But is it changed from 9 to 16, which is bad, or from 9 to 2, which is good?

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