Safe Cracking A La Feynman
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 06:14
in Physics & Chemistry
While as yet unproven, a promising theorem in particle physics states that physicists are people, too. (If you prick them—the theorem goes—they are likely to bleed, etc.) So far, the strongest support for this idea is the anecdotal evidence of Richard Feynman, a Nobel-Prize-winning physicist who was almost certainly a person. Feynman’s reputation for humanizing buffoonery included his ability to open supposedly secure safes—a skill he honed while working on the atom bomb at Los Alamos Lab during the Second World War. Who is history's hottest physicist? Richard Feynman Enrico Fermi Nikola Tesla ...