I find Feynman to sound almost rude or irritated at times when he answers questions. But I realized he’s fighting through the challenge of communication. And th

I find Feynman to sound almost rude or irritated at times when he answers questions. But I realized he’s fighting through the challenge of communication. And that might be what I learned most from the magnet question: that science and engineering communication is considerably more complex than one might think. It’s just so easy to hear a question, make twenty assumptions about the question, assume the question asker made the same twenty assumptions, and then to spend 10 minutes talking past each other.