Dr. Richard Feynman, Flying Saucers, and the Paranormal Clock
Dr. Richard Feynman, Flying Saucers, and the Paranormal Clock
An article which appears as a chapter in Alien Bedtime Stories
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.” ― Rumi.
In a lecture at Connell in 1964, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman made a statement about flying saucers which is important considering who he was.
Richard
Feynman was one of the top physicists of the 20th century. New York Times
actually published an article which called him the smartest man ever. He is known
for his Nobel Prize for physics for “his work in the path integral formulation
of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the
superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle
physics for which he proposed the parton model.”[1]
Feynman was also known for a famous quote let some contend he did not make. there are many interpretations of the meaning of quantum physics oddities such as the dual slit experiment and the entangled particle experiment. When asked what model of quantum physics he preferred find me an apparently answered “shut up and calculate.”
This
was meant to imply the physicists should not worry about the philosophical
implications behind the quantum physics oddities. Instead, they should just use
the very exacting math to produce discoveries and technologies.
This
is interesting because the 2022 Nobel Prize was awarded to John Clauser, Alain
Aspect and Anton Zeilinger for “for experiments with entangled photons,
establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum
information science.”
The
work of these three men confirms once and for all the fact that there is at the
minute level of matter an uncertainty, and that spooky action at a distance
which offended Albert Einstein a great deal, appears to be an actual fact in
reality.
I had a conversation about flying saucers some years ago with laymen. Because I'm scientific I know all about flying saucers.
So, I said I don't think they are flying Saucers.
So, my antagonist said, “Is it impossible? If there were flying saucers, can you prove it it's impossible?”
Even though I can't prove it's impossible it's just very unlikely.
That they say, “you are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then why how can you say that it is unlikely.
Well that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what's more likely and less likely and not to be proving all the time possible or impossible.
To define what I mean I finally said to him, “Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I be around, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence rather than the unknown rational assets of extraterrestrial intelligence.”
In
2021, the American government admitted that there are unknown like flying
saucers in American airspace, and not "irrational characteristics of
terrestrial intelligence."
Instead of being smart as many claimed Feynman was, he will go down in
history like Max Planck's University advisor, who told him in 1874, to stay out
of physics as everything had been discovered and there would be nothing to so.
Like many scientists Feynman liked to play
the skeptic as it made him look smart, and he did play the disbeliever role
again when his first wife died, and he was faced with another paranormal aspect
of reality that he had a great deal of cognitive dissonance about.
The Feynman event occurred in 1945, as he was working
on the atomic bomb in Las Alamos. His high school sweetheart, Arline, was
diagnosed in 1943 with terminal tuberculosis and only had a few years left to
live. Against even his mother’s advice, Feynman still married her, and she
resided in a care facility their entire marriage. When the call came that she
was near death in June 1945, Feynman raced to her bedside, where she took her
last breath. The nurse announced that she had died. At this point, he
discovered that the clock by the bed had stopped at 9:21, the exact moment of
her death.
This is often reported in deaths. In the Forrest
Ackerman case that Shermer was asked about by Paul Davids, Ackerman appeared in
a famous painting of himself, four years before his death, in front of a clock
that read 12:58. When he died in 2008, the moment of death was 12:58, as in the
painting.
The skeptical materialist Feynman, like Shermer,
later publicly rationalized an explanation to illuminate the possible spiritual
implication of the stopped clock. He justified that the nurse must have picked
up the fragile clock to obtain the time of death, which must have stopped the
clock. Feynman failed to state whether he had tried to fix the clock to prove
his theory. It would seem likely that he would, as he said he had fixed the
clock many times. He loved to fix things and talked to his wife in a letter
shortly before her death about fixing a watch for her. If he did unsuccessfully
try and get the clock going after his wife’s death, he kept it a closely
guarded secret. He also said nothing about the clock when he returned to Los
Alamos. When asked what happened, he replied, “She’s dead. And how’s the
program going?”
It appears that the clock incident bothered Feynman. After the war, he told an Army psychiatrist that he talked to his dead wife from time to time. In addition, in complete opposition to his public stance on life after death, the avowed atheist Feynman wrote a letter to his dead wife 16 months after she died. The letter remained a secret until Feynman had passed away in 1987. His daughter released his notes in a book called, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. According to his daughter, Michelle, the letter was a touching love letter that had been taken out and read many times by her father. Michelle wrote in the preface to the letter,
“This letter is well worn, much more so than others, and it appears as though he reread it often.”98
98 Feynman’s Clock, Danwin.com, http://danwin.com/2012/06/feynmans-clock/
[1] In particle physics, the parton model is a model of hadrons, such as protons and neutrons, proposed by Richard Feynman. It is useful for interpreting the cascades of radiation (a parton shower) produced from quantum chromodynamics (QCD) processes and interactions in high-energy particle collisions.
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