Feynman troubleshooting story update
Feynman troubleshooting story update
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My recollection was real bad no this one, although the moral of the story was serviceable.
In an old thread I said......" The physicist Richard Feynman in one of his books tells a story that as a young man amazed an older relative. The relative had a broken watch or clock or something. Young Feynman checked the watch for symptoms, then paced back and forth for a while, head down, looking at the floor, just thinking. Then he did something simple to the watch, which immediately started working. Thereafter the relative would often proudly tell the tale that Feynman fixed the watch "just by walking around." .
In reality the story was about a radio, the radio owner was not a relative, but was annoyed and said "What are you doing? You come to fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!" In the end he got Feinman other repair jobs, and "kept telling everybody what a tremendous genius I was, saying, "He fixes radios by thinking!" "
It's about 2/3 of the way down here -
http: //search.b arnesandno ble.com/bo oksearch/i sbninquiry .asp?r=1&a mp;ISBN=03 93316041&a mp;pdf=y&a mp;z=y#CHP
Dan T
In an old thread I said......" The physicist Richard Feynman in one of his books tells a story that as a young man amazed an older relative. The relative had a broken watch or clock or something. Young Feynman checked the watch for symptoms, then paced back and forth for a while, head down, looking at the floor, just thinking. Then he did something simple to the watch, which immediately started working. Thereafter the relative would often proudly tell the tale that Feynman fixed the watch "just by walking around." .
In reality the story was about a radio, the radio owner was not a relative, but was annoyed and said "What are you doing? You come to fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!" In the end he got Feinman other repair jobs, and "kept telling everybody what a tremendous genius I was, saying, "He fixes radios by thinking!" "
It's about 2/3 of the way down here -
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Dan T




