Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [272]
115 DON’T YOU AGREE, PROFESSOR EINSTEIN: F-W, 244.
115 HIS OWN EQUIVOCAL BALANCE SHEET: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 3 March 1940, PERS.
115 LECTURE HIS FRIENDS: Simeon Hutner, telephone interview.
116 HOURS WHEN I HAVEN’T MARKED DOWN: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, November 1940, PERS.
116 BEFORE REVEALING IT TO ARLINE: Paul Olurn, telephone interview.
116 SHE SENT HIM A BOX OF PENCILS: WDY, 43–44.
116 IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE THINGS I DO: Arline Greenbaum to Feynman, n.d., PERS.
117 THIS STYLE OF TREATMENT: Teller 1988, 97.
117 AN OLD FRATERNITY FRIEND PICKED HER UP: Robbins, interview.
117 HE CERTAINLY BELIEVES IN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: Ibid.
117 STILL, HE WORRIED: F-W, 252–53; Feynman 1941a is the manuscript on which he based the talk. Feynman and Wheeler 1941 is the published abstract.
117 THE ACCELERATION OF A POINT CHARGE: Feynman 1941a.
118 WHEELER NEEDED LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT: Feynman (F-W, 243) thought the visit to Einstein “probably” came before his lecture; Wheeler remembers it coming after, and the acknowledgments in Feynman 1941a and Wheeler and Feynman 1945 suggest that Wheeler must be right.
118 EINSTEIN RECEIVED THIS PAIR: Wheeler 1989, 27.
118 FEYNMAN WAS STRUCK: F-W, 254.
118 AN OBSTINATE HERETIC: Quoted in Pais 1982, 462.
118 THE STRANGE LITTLE PAPER: Physikalische Zeitschrift 10(1909):323; Wheeler 1989, 27; Pais 1982, 484.
119 WE MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN TWO TYPES: Feynman 1941a, 13; Schweber 1986a, 459.
119 “PROF WHEELER,” HE WROTE: Feynman 1941a, 13.
120 THE SUN WOULD NOT RADIATE: Zeitschrift für Physik 10(1922):317, quoted in Wheeler and Feynman 1945, 159–60.
120 LEWIS, TOO, WORRIED: Stuewer 1975, 485 and 499.
120 I AM GOING TO MAKE: Lewis, “The Nature of Light,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12(1926):22, quoted in Wheeler and Feynman 1945, 159 n.
121 THESE WERE DEAD ENDS: F-W, 260.
121 IT PROVED POSSIBLE TO COMPUTE PARTICLE INTERACTIONS: The first application of the least-action principle in this context came in work of which Wheeler and Feynman were not yet aware: a paper by A. D. Fokker in Zeitschrift für Physik 58(1929):386.
121 IN THE ABSORBER THEORY: NL, 438–39.
121 THE MORE FEYNMAN WORKED: Ibid., 440.
121 WE HAVE, INSTEAD: Ibid.
122 AN IMAGE, SO TO SPEAK: Minkowski, “Space and Time,” in Weaver 1987, 2:156; Galison 1979.
122 FEYNMAN, I KNOW WHY: NL, 441.
122 IT WAS THE FIRST ANTIPARTICLE: Dirac, however, was reluctant to accept the idea of a new antiparticle; he first assumed that this positively charged particle must be the proton, despite the enormous discrepancy in mass.
123 EINSTEIN HAD WORRIED ABOUT THIS: Park 1988, 234.
123 A PHILOSOPHER, ADOLPH CRÜNBAUM: “The Anisotropy of Time,” in Gold 1967, 149; Adolph Grünbaum, telephone interview.
123 MR. X: Feynman was enraged at the postconference suggestion that the proceedings be published; he surprised the other participants by declaring that there was no such subject as “the nature of time.” Grünbaum said later: “Who was he worried about? If he was worried about people in the know then this device failed. I don’t see how a man of his towering eminence could feel his reputation would be jeopardized.” Grünbaum, interview.
123 GRÜNBAUM: I WANT TO SAY: Gold 1967, 178–79.
124 WHATEVER HIDDEN BRAIN MACHINERY: Ibid., 183.
124 ONE’S SENSE OF THE NOW: Morris 1984, 146.
124 ONE CAN SAY EASILY ENOUGH: Park 1988, 234.
125 IT’S A POOR MEMORY: Gold 1967, 235.
125 THIS PROCESS LEADS: Ibid., 4.
126 THREE ARROWS OF TIME: Ibid., 13–14.
126 IT’S A VERY INTERESTING THING: Ibid., 186.
126 HE HAD COME TO BELIEVE: F-W, 301.
127 HE READ UP ON TYPHOID: Ibid., 303; WDY, 34–35.
127 FEYNMAN HAD FELT FROM THE BEGINNING: F-W, 246.
127 SOMETIMES WHEELER TOLD FEYNMAN: Ibid., 268. 127 “OH?” PAULI SAID: Ibid., 245–46; cf. SYJ, 66.
127 WHEELER CANCELED THE LECTURE: F-W, 255 (“Q: The culmination of this grand paper was what? A: The culmination was, his grand paper has never come out").
128 DIRAC HAD PUBLISHED A PAPER: