Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman gets namechecked in the latest issue of Warren Ellis’s comic Planetary. If it’s possible to have eccentric physicists as idols then Feynman is one of mine.
Fifty years ago, Mr. Snow the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.”
His thesis was that, in a period concerned with megaengineering and macroscale physics we were not directing the correct attention to the microscale.
We contain universes. There are vastnesses in every grade of sand.
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