Cure yourself with 1 10,000 words (103) Reading Notes 12: Mr. Feynman's practical joke (6733)

I started reading a new book today. Stop it, Mr. Feynman. Feynman is a great physicist. The main content of this book is some practical jokes in Feynman's life and his ability to subdue others in communication.

His students recalled that Mr Feynman always smiled at others and always wanted to tell some jokes. His physics is full of happiness. Like telling jokes, this kind of happiness is contagious, and all his students are infected. This is Feynman's crazy happiness.

In short, in Feynman's eyes, physics is a joke and an interesting thing. Therefore, his deep joy in scientific understanding is the source of his happiness in life. He is just a naughty boy exploring and playing pranks.

The first part, from Faroukwei to MIT.

1. He can repair the radio with his mind.

He wrote many short stories in this article. Feynman set up a laboratory at home when he was eleven or twelve years old and did many experiments. One of the most interesting experiments is that he made an automatic alarm. When sleeping at night, his parents always come home late and go to his room to take off his headphones. So, he made this burglar alarm. One night, his parents came back, and they were afraid to disturb him. As a result, they just opened the door and took the headphones. Suddenly, a huge bell rang. Feynman jumped out of bed and shouted, it worked, it worked, and I'm glad.

On another occasion, he bought several radios in a clearance sale, all of which were old. He wants to buy them and repair them, because they are usually fine. Some wires are loose and some wires are broken. So he has repaired several radios. He can listen to the radio. Once, several children in their family were listening to the Enoch Crime Club. He could hear it from the program broadcast in new york an hour ago, so after they listened, Feynman was able to calculate the plot of the next story, and the children were very surprised. But later he also told them his way, so they couldn't wait an hour. They were all eager to listen to Radio new york.

The game he plays with his sister Joan is more interesting. One day, he had a microphone that could broadcast from upstairs to downstairs. He bought a loudspeaker. At that time, his sister was only two or three years old and liked a guy named Uncle Tang on the radio. She listens to his program every time.

Feynman and his cousin settled his sister down that day and said they had a special program for him. Then, they ran upstairs and began to broadcast: I'm Uncle Tang, and I know a lovely child named Joan. She is on New Broadway, and her birthday is coming. She is a clever little girl. Then, they sang a song, then played music, Didi DuDu, they finished a whole set of programs, and then went downstairs to ask how his sister was. Do you like this program? Sister said: very good, but how to make music with your mouth?

The most critical moment came, and one day he received a phone call: Sir, is this Feynman? I am a hotel here. We have a broken radio that needs repairing. I know you might be able to help.

"But I'm still a child." Feynman said.

"Yes, we know. You'd better come anyway. " The other party replied.

His aunt owned the hotel, so he went with a screwdriver. Later, he found that the volume-adjusting thing was loose, so he put it on, and that's it.

Later, he repaired many radios. Actually, everything is easy, but the plug is wrong and loose.

But the things he repaired later became more and more complicated, and his skills became better and better. He repaired a radio and made him famous. This is a printer. He said he couldn't stand the noise when the radio was on.

Feynman heard this, and sure enough, the noise was too loud. He roared trembling and loudly. Feynman didn't start repairing at once, but paced back and forth there, wondering what went wrong. Just then, the man who wanted to repair the radio said, you came to repair the radio, but you just walked around here.

Feynman said, I'm thinking about it. Then, he took out the radio tube and reversed the instructions in the machine, so that when the radio was turned on, it was as quiet as a little sheep. When it gets hot, the noise disappears completely.

Later, the man told everyone that he was a great genius, and the child stopped to use his brain to fix the radio.

Sometimes, such things can be a little troublesome. Once it took him an afternoon to find the fault, and the inconspicuous resistor burned out. It happened to be a friend of her mother's. She didn't blame him for taking so long, just said that you should drink some milk. Do you want some snacks? He thinks he is tenacious and will not give up once he encounters problems. He's always thinking, I'm going to solve this damn problem Now that you have worked so hard, you can't give up halfway after finding many problems. I must finally find out his problem.

This is an impulse to solve difficult problems. I want to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics, which is why I want to open the safe. "

Later, his experience at school was also very interesting. Once, a classmate gave him a difficult geometry problem, which took him about half an hour to work out. On the same day, another guy came to him with the same problem, and he solved it in a blink of an eye. So in the eyes of those people, he became a genius.

So he got a false name, so when he was in middle school, someone went to him whenever there was a problem, and he knew all about other people's inventions. The most interesting thing is that once at MIT, a senior student knew a lot of problems and said to Feynman, "Everyone says you are a smart guy. Well, I have prepared a topic for you. "

As a result, Feynman gave the girl the answer before she could say all the questions. The girl tried several times and the result was the same. The girl was stunned.

Feynman also found a trick from the teacher competition. He found that all the problems that can only be solved in less than a minute have some tricks and do not need actual calculation. He must find the trick through repeated inspection, so his ability is getting stronger and stronger.

Feynman also likes to borrow books from the library. He borrowed some math books and physics books instead of our usual novel books. Once he borrowed a book on trigonometry, and then he solved some problems in his own way. Later, he compared the proof methods in the book and found that sometimes what he did was more complicated, but the book was simpler; But sometimes he also finds that what he does is much simpler than that in the book. He also found that he didn't like the symbols of sine and cosine tangent. He invented some symbols himself, and through his own invention, he can solve the problem faster.

Later, he invented a set of symbols himself, so that he could type equations on a typewriter. He found it particularly interesting.

After reading these stories, I feel that his experience is really interesting. From an accidental incident, he gradually accumulated experience, solved some difficult problems with his curiosity, and then all the difficult problems came to him, and he became smarter. What works here is his indomitable spirit. Some children are smart when they are young, but sometimes they give up easily. The cleverness of those children has not been used and developed.

Don't underestimate any small achievement of a child. For example, he has just repaired that radio. People may say that this is just a simple thing. In fact, a child can gain a sense of accomplishment from it, thus enhancing his curiosity and self-confidence, which will prompt him to explore and discover new unknowns. .

Step 2: Kidney beans

Before he was seventeen or eighteen, Feynman worked eleven or twelve hours a day in a hotel run by his aunt's family. He likes desserts very much, so he asked the caterer to give him all the desserts left over from dinner. In this way, in the evening, the caterer left him six desserts in the refrigerator and asked him which one he liked. He was so happy that he enjoyed every meal.

Then, one day, another girl left a copy of Da Vinci's life, and he was inspired again. He made a system consisting of a rope and a heavy hammer. As soon as he opened the door, he turned the switch, pulled the rope to light the light inside, and then closed the door, and the light went out.

Some people have read hundreds of books, but it is useless. After reading a book, they used it and achieved success. Feynman read a book about Leonardo da Vinci's life and was inspired to make a gadget.

I think Feynman can apply what he has got to it every time. Just like some people, he completely digests what he eats, and some people, he gulps it as if he didn't eat it.

Seeing that the method of cutting beans and potatoes in the kitchen was too troublesome, he invented the method of cutting beans and potatoes. Although he said he had cut his hand once, he still didn't give up. Once he saw that the operator even bothered with the wires, so he tied a pick to the switchboard so that he knew which phone was ringing.

But her aunt still said it was too complicated, and she had to sigh that it was too difficult to invent in the real world, but the key was that he kept playing.

Therefore, I think the most important factor of his success is that he can give full play to what he has, and he never takes the blows of others to heart.

This is really very important. Give full play to what you have and ignore all setbacks.

3. Who stole the door

This essay tells many short stories that happened in MIT, some about their interesting extracurricular activities as freshmen, and some about Feynman's practical jokes.

People think that MIT is a bully, but in fact, the bully is still very playful. Feynman first joined a Jewish fraternity, which meant that they took care of each other in everything. Some people fall behind to help him study, some people can't dance, and some people want to get her one.

At first, they all said it was beautiful. Later, they had various ways to spoil the new students. For example, they were sent to a far place in the country in the middle of winter and placed by a frozen lake.

But you have to believe that people who enter MIT are not ordinary people. There are many interesting people. Even at this time, a person is very happy. Isn't it fun to say what's the big deal? He laughed off the whole situation when everyone was angry.

They walked and walked until they came to a crossroads not far from the lake. When others are discussing which way to go, this person follows up and firmly says this way.

Then everyone blamed him. You don't know anything. The man said firmly, it's very simple. Look at the phone line. Which side has more telephone lines is the switchboard. Then, everyone went back to the city without going the wrong way.

Feynman thinks this man is great. He doesn't care about anything. Then, he's fine. Some people are like this, treating all kinds of difficulties in life as a game, and then they can use this idea to find shortcuts when they encounter difficulties.

Feynman can chat with some senior students because he often sees things in encyclopedias that are not in books. Once, when no one could solve a problem, he said, why not use any equation to solve it? Then those people were very surprised. It turns out that his pronunciation is wrong. Later, when I learned that I was very excited, I often discussed some physical problems with him and pondered the problems of senior grades. Then, they learn pronunciation from them. He thinks this is a good educational method.

He also told a particularly interesting story. When he was dancing, he met two deaf-mute girls. After the dance, two deaf-mute girls invited them to a hotel. One of his classmates doesn't want to go. He thinks there is nothing to go. It turned out that the deaf had organized a dance. He learned a lot of gestures from those deaf-mute girls. They gave him a thumbs-up, touched the edge of his imaginary suit, and said that he was very graceful. He unconsciously became one with them.

He suddenly wanted to drink milk, so he went to the canteen to buy milk. He made a symbol of milk, and his fist moved around, but the man didn't understand what he wanted. A man here asked for a bottle of milk, so he pointed to the milk. The people in the canteen said, oh, it's milk. He nodded. The man handed him a bottle of milk, Feynman said, thank you very much! The man in the canteen was so popular that he said, you son of a bitch, and then he smiled. It turned out that he realized that he was not deaf.

When Feynman went to college, he also found that some of their classmates were not solid in knowledge, but just stuck in books and copied them mechanically. Later, he played a prank on his classmates. Four years later, at Princeton University, he played a prank on Einstein's assistant.

Feynman asked him to solve a problem: a man sat in a rocket and climbed into the sky. There is a clock on the rocket and a clock on the ground. The clock on the ground reports that an hour has passed and you must return to the ground. What you want now is that when you return to Earth, the clock on your rocket must be as fast as possible. What speed and distance do you want to shorten the time?

It took Einstein's assistant a long time to realize that the answer was general practice. If you throw something into the sky in the usual way and it takes an hour to pick it up or put it down, then this is the correct way to exercise.

There are also several practical jokes played by Feynman, which make people smile bitterly every time. I think he is constantly training his ability to play pranks, and finally turns physics research into a prank that needs to be solved slowly, making his life more and more interesting.

Latin or Italian,

Feynman once went to give a parent-teacher conference to your sister who is 9 years younger. The teacher asked her father to perform a program, but they didn't know what to perform. Feynman told them that he was going to recite a poem and said, I'm sorry, that's not English, but anyway, I promise they will like it. As a result, he recited three or four paragraphs casually, confusing the children with all the feelings he heard on Italian radio. They laughed happily. Later, a teacher came and told Feynman that they had been discussing his poems because one of them thought it was Italian and the other thought it was Latin. The teacher asked him who was right. Feynman said: You must ask your classmates. They will soon know what language it is. .

This man is really bold, enough to fool people. I don't know anything. I hope this expression is in place. He just likes to see that look. He thinks it's funny, and so do I. Think of life as a game.

5, always want to escape

Feynman was only interested in science when he was at MIT, and was not interested in anything else. However, there is a rule that colleges must take some humanities courses in order to get more education. Besides English, he has to take two elective courses. He discovered an astronomy and a philosophy.

The article they have to criticize is on chalk by Huxley. In this article, he said that the chalk he took was left by animal bones, and the power inside the earth pushed it up, so he became a part of the white cliff. Then, it was excavated and now it is used as painting on the blackboard to convey ideas.

As a result, Feynman wrote an imitation article about On a Dust. It is about how a piece of dust turns into a colorful sunset, which contributes to the condensation of raindrops, and so on. He thinks he is pretending to be sick or always running away, but I think imitation is also good.

There is also an essay about Goethe's Faust, and he can't do anything about it, but his classmates said that you have to write it, just hand it in according to the prescribed number of words. He finished writing, and his classmates said that you didn't meet the requirements at all, and it had nothing to do with Faust. So he is very interested in his article "On the Limits of Theory". He said that science is limited, and moral problems cannot be solved by scientific methods. Later, he added a little casually.

Got a B+ and got away with it. Later, in philosophy class, I didn't understand. He has an awl with only 1.5mm, which he uses to pass the time in class, drilling holes in the soles of his feet between two fingers, and how to mix week after week. Then one day, everyone got excited. What are they talking about? It turns out that they are going to write an article and hand it in in four weeks.

He is stupid. The only sentence he heard throughout the semester was Yili's stream of consciousness. Later, he seized this stream of consciousness and wrote an article. Because he remembers that his father told him a topic, suppose Martians came to visit the earth, but I never sleep now, and they asked you what it was like to fall asleep. What's the matter, did you stop or slow down?

Then he spent four weeks observing his dreams, and then he began to write articles. This conclusion is:

I wonder why. I wonder why.

I want to know why.

I want to know why. I want to know why.

Why do I want to know

As a result, the teacher also read his article.

After the article was finished, he continued to sleep while curiously observing his own practice. One day, he was dreaming and realized that I was observing myself in my dream.

As a result of these observations, he began to put forward a small theory. One of the reasons why he likes to watch dreams is curiosity. He is curious about how you see an image when you close your eyes and see nothing. Like a person's image.

He knew there must be a translation department. When you really look at something, what you see is not just a color block, but something that tells you what it is. Must translate, the translation department is still in operation when dreaming.

He told you that you were looking at a human hair very carefully, but you didn't see anything at that time. He translated the fragments that entered the brain into clear images.

I also want to dream and observe, because I heard that the person in the dream will do something meaningful, because everyone should make use of this time in the dream, because when dreaming, he is sorting out the materials absorbed during the day, so when you enter the dream, you should be prepared to guide the direction of the dream. Because I heard that some people can guide their dreams, others can't, and he is unconscious. I also think it is a very interesting thing.

Feynman felt that he always wanted to escape from things he didn't like, but even if he escaped, he exhausted his strength, and then he found something he liked to do in the escape, doing it decently, and really found something he found interesting to study.

5. Chief chemist of Mitte Gypsum Company.

After Feynman graduated, he encountered the Great Depression in the United States, and physicists could not find a job. Later, Feynman met his hair in the street. When they were two children, they often played in the laboratory, and then performed magic together in the street. One of the magic tricks is that he caught fire in his hand, but he didn't burn himself. Later, he told the story to his college classmates, and they asked him to show it to them. As a result, hair grew on the back of my hand at that time, and I burned it as soon as it caught fire. Before this experiment was successful, he had no hair when he was a child.

Feynman's friends said that he had developed a plastic electroplating method, so Feynman joined them and set up Mitte Gypsum Company. There are only four people in the company. My friend's father is the president, my friend is the vice president, and my friend's brother is a bottle washer. He is the chief chemist. He is very successful and often simplifies many things. Chemistry class sometimes takes several hours to walk, and he can finish it in five minutes. Then, they advertised in modern magazines and did great work for some time.

Many years later, Feynman met a man, a scientist, in the hotel where American scientists met. At that time, the man had become a big shot in the enterprise, and the two chatted about the past. The entrepreneur said that he once worked in a plastic electroplating factory, and their factory was also very successful. But then a big company in new york, Mitt prats Company, beat them and walked faster than them. In this way, their company has no chance.

Feynman asked: How many chemists are there in your laboratory? The man said there were six. Feynman asked again, how many chemists do you think Mitt paist has?

The man said with certainty that they must have a real chemistry department with 20~50 chemists. How do we compete with them?

Feynman said: You know that you are talking to the chief chemist of Mitte Gypsum Company, which must be interesting. In fact, there was only one bottle washer under him at that time.

I feel that people are engaged in enterprises. Feynman is like a street magic. The result is stronger than others and he is regarded as a god by others. Smart people are just different.