The alien hypothesis?

jporter jp3214 at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 18 06:22:44 CDT 2005


On Oct 18, 2005, at 5:26 AM, Blake Stacey wrote:

> I've seen a fair number of
> Feynman videos, too:  every winter break at MIT, they project Feynman 
> films in
> one of the big lecture halls.  It's a great way to warm up and forget 
> the
> metric f*ckload of snow falling outside.  In addition to the 
> documentaries like
> **The Quest for Tannu Tuva**, they also show the Cornell Messenger 
> lectures
> which were edited into **The Character of Physical Law**.  Grand stuff.
>

What were Feynman's feelings, if any, about the development
of the atomic bomb and its being dropped on hundreds of thousands
of civilians? Or doesn' t that image intrude through the "faintly
falling" snow at MIT?

jody




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