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I hardly consider myself cold or heartless scientiffic, but I cannot imagine why someone would give up all reason and curiosity applied to the moment surroumdin
by geon 14y ago
I hardly consider myself cold or heartless scientiffic, but I cannot imagine why someone would give up all reason and curiosity applied to the moment surroumding a persons death.
If a clock stopped at the time of my wifes death, just how would it be natural to attribute it to something supernatural if I wouldn't usually do that?
Just because it is a highly emotional moment?
- danso 14y agoConcerning young love, there's the perception that the world practically begins and ends with your partner. Given that she was assigned a tragic and uncommon fate, would it be surprising to think that Feynman, or anyone, might be more vulnerable to accepting the "magical" explanation, that the energy/soul of this unique being left a telekinetic sign? Its not just that you wouldn't, on average, consider a supernatural explanation. It's that the stopping of a clock at any particular moment is rare and the death of your first true love...is, well, also extremely rare. A scientific mind, under some stress, might cede to the supernatural comfort by framing it as: "well, the probability of those two events happening at once"...and this framing would be made even easier given the overwhelming acceptance of such an event being supernatural by a 1940s-era society
- zwischenzug 14y agoI think you would be more rational exactly at that moment than be emotional. People react in unexpected ways in extreme situations. The most common reaction is to revert to a default mode of operation. It takes time for the feelings and responses to work their way through you.