quinta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2011

Feynman explica o que é a ciência

Feynman explica o que é a ciência na Universidade de Cornell em 1964.

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Cláudia S. Tomazi disse...

How readily reality adapts to the imagination! Physicist Richard Feynman, known especially for his work with uncertainty, suggested that antiparticles might be ordinary particles traveling backward in time. His insight was elicited not by daunting mathematics but by his curiously simple-looking arrow diagrams, which suddenly made the idea seem plausible.

The diagrams themselves conceive an intuition, the scribble suggests a word, one word leads to another. Sometimes an organ precedes its function. A structure arises, but becomes useful only after is development. Evolutionary theorists call this exaptation. Our brains may have developed this way. The human is the animal who lays-in meaning. The poem is a structure in which meanings resonate.

There is another world, the poet Paul Eluard famously wrote, but it is inside this one.

Cláudia disse...

Podemos dizer da ciência de Feynman que é surpreendente, mas é totalmente realista ou definitiva? Então aqui vai a provocação.



... this long history of learning how not to fool ourselves--of having utter scientific integrity--is, I'm sorry to say, something that we haven't specifically included in any particular course that I know of. We just hope you've caught on by osmosis.
- Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science

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