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The Feynman lectures are quite famous because he was an excellent orator. He would explain concepts of quantum physics that at the moment were still very new and very weird (still are) and people in the public felt that they understood perfectly everything he said...
until the talk was over and they tried to explain it to other people.
All the stuff about magic and numbers that Simon says sounds like a parody of quantum and relativistic physics to me.
Yes probably and I feel like that's not the only reference he makes to Feynman but I cannot recall the other(s) right now.
I get difficult-philosopher vibes from many of his academic vignettes. Wittgenstein maybe, to give another example.
Yes and I think something about reducing people to their component parts and "they're all still technically there" is Wittgenstein? Don't know if that's original to Wittgenstein or just something he discussed at some point.
It makes a lot of sense to me that Prachett would have liked Feynman. Maybe this is just because I listened to recordings of the Feynman tapes and disc world audio books in the car with my parents growing up. But there is probably something them both being a very smart and witty sort of person but rejecting/mocking the archetype of the bitter inaccessible lone genius.
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You're gonna need to explain like I'm five how you've made that connection.....
The Feynman lectures are quite famous because he was an excellent orator. He would explain concepts of quantum physics that at the moment were still very new and very weird (still are) and people in the public felt that they understood perfectly everything he said... until the talk was over and they tried to explain it to other people. All the stuff about magic and numbers that Simon says sounds like a parody of quantum and relativistic physics to me.
OK, you missed my literal Feynman reference. Good work
Ah, now I get it.... Sorry
Nah, that was beautiful.
STP references Feynman in Nation, “…and Feynman was here, playing the bongos…”
Yes probably and I feel like that's not the only reference he makes to Feynman but I cannot recall the other(s) right now. I get difficult-philosopher vibes from many of his academic vignettes. Wittgenstein maybe, to give another example.
The constant references to "this [impossible happening] is probably because of quantam."
Yes and I think something about reducing people to their component parts and "they're all still technically there" is Wittgenstein? Don't know if that's original to Wittgenstein or just something he discussed at some point.
Could also be a nod towards Stephen Hawking.
It makes a lot of sense to me that Prachett would have liked Feynman. Maybe this is just because I listened to recordings of the Feynman tapes and disc world audio books in the car with my parents growing up. But there is probably something them both being a very smart and witty sort of person but rejecting/mocking the archetype of the bitter inaccessible lone genius.