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Aotearoa
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來源是傳記作家 拉夫.雷頓(Ralph Leighton) (註1)
為《費曼物理學訣竅》Feynman's Tips on Physics 一書所寫的序言


https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010843981 博客來


1962年,偏遠的喜馬拉雅山區的中印未定邊界上發生了糾紛,鬧到雙方互相開火射擊,之後形成對峙,雙方一觸即發的緊張情勢持續了多年。有座孤零零設立在高坡頂上的印度軍隊前哨站,站內有一名被徵召入伍的士兵,叫做伯拉蘇不拉曼寧(Ramaswamy
Balasubramanian),透過一具雙筒望遠鏡觀察對面駐守在西藏境內的人民解放軍的動靜,他看到對方也在用望遠鏡朝著這邊觀望。出乎伯拉蘇不拉曼寧跟他同袍們的意外,那些解放軍居然拿著紅色封面的袖珍版《毛語錄》,西方人多稱之為「毛澤東的小紅書」,高高舉在手中,面向著印度前哨站揮舞示威。

  伯拉蘇不拉曼寧當時常趁著閒暇自修物理學,他很快的就對解放軍的嘲弄覺得很厭煩,於是有一天,他有備而來的到前哨站服勤,在解放軍循例拿起小紅書揮舞時,他跟另兩位袍澤馬上各自抓起一本他帶去的三大冊,同樣是大紅封面的《費曼物理學講義》,高舉過頭,向對方揮舞。 (註2)

  有一天,我收到當事人伯拉蘇不拉曼寧先生寄來的一封信。過去許多年裡面,我收到數百封類似的信件,都是描述費曼對人們的生命所產生的長遠衝擊。他在描述了於中印邊界所發生的「紅皮書」事件之後,寫道:「二十年之後,究竟是誰的紅皮書,仍然還有人在閱讀呢?」

  他說得真是一針見血。《費曼物理學講義》從發行以來,已經超過了四十寒暑,現在仍然有許多人在讀,並且繼續啟發全球各地的讀者,我相信甚至連西藏地區也不例外。

  這兒我得特別記上一筆:數年前我在一個派對上遇到麥可.高利伯,當天派對主人利用電腦螢幕,展示了圖瓦喉音歌手於現場表演所唱歌聲的諧泛音(harmonic overtone),這類活動讓舊金山附近的生活有趣了起來。高利伯原本是數學科班出身,並對物理學非常有興趣,於是我建議他閱讀《費曼物理學講義》。大約一年後,他特地騰出了六個月的時間,專心一志的把這套講義從頭到尾仔細的讀過一遍。正如高利伯所寫的本書〈初版序〉中所描述,他那一讀,最後促成了本書,跟《費曼物理學講義》新千禧年版的誕生。

所以我很高興現在全世界對於物理有興趣的人,可以研讀一套更正確、更完整的《費曼物理學講義》,而且還有本冊書做為補充讀本。看來《費曼物理學講義》這套不朽巨著在未來數十年,仍將繼續教導與啟發學生,無論他們是在紐約曼哈坦鬧區或是在喜馬拉雅高山上。

拉夫.雷頓(Ralph Leighton)

註1:拉夫.雷頓 Ralph Leighton(1949~)

美國傳記作家,也是《費曼物理學講義》作者之一
羅伯.雷頓(Robert Leighton)的兒子。

註2:《費曼物理學講義》The Feynman Lectures on Physics

由物理學家 理察.費曼(Richard Feynman 1918~1988)
羅伯.雷頓(Robert Leighton 1919~1997)
瑪修.桑茲(Matthew Sands 1919~2014)

三人合著的物理學教科書,廣為世人所知。

    https://i.imgur.com/6C2RvWD.jpg 

圖 中印邊界《毛語錄》vs.《費曼物理學講義》


原文:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/TIPS_90.html


At a lonely border post high on the Himalayan frontier, Ramaswamy
Balasubramanian peered through his binoculars at the People's Liberation
Army soldiers stationed in Tibet—who were peering through their scopes back
at him. Tensions between India and China had been high for several years
since 1962, when the two countries traded shots across their disputed border.The PLA soldiers, knowing they were being watched, taunted Balasubramanian
and his fellow Indian soldiers by shaking, defiantly, high in the air, their
pocket-sized, bright-red copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao—better known
in the West as “Mao's Little Red Book.”

Balasubramanian, then a conscript studying physics in his spare time, soon
grew tired of these taunts. So one day, he came to his observation post
prepared with a suitable rejoinder. As soon as the PLA soldiers started
waving Mao's Little Red Book in the air again, he and two fellow Indian
soldiers picked up and held aloft the three big, bright-red volumes of The
Feynman Lectures on Physics.

One day I received a letter from Mr. Balasubramanian. His was among hundreds
of letters I have received over the years that describe the lasting impact
Richard Feynman has had on people's lives. After recounting the“red-books”
incident on the Sino-Indian frontier, he wrote:“Now, twenty years later,
whose red books are still being read?”

Indeed. Today, more than forty years after they were delivered, The Feynman
Lectures on Physics are still being read—and still inspire—even in Tibet, I
suspect.

A special case in point: several years ago I met Michael Gottlieb at a party
where the host was displaying on a computer screen the harmonic overtones of
a live Tuvan throat-singer—the kind of event that makes living in San
Francisco such fun. Gottlieb had studied math and was very interested in
physics, so I suggested he read The Feynman Lectures on Physics—and about a
year later, he devoted six months of his life to reading The Lectures very
carefully from beginning to end. As Gottlieb describes in his introduction,
this led, eventually, to the book you are reading now, as well as to a new,
“Definitive Edition”of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

Thus I am pleased that people interested in physics all over the world can
now study, with the addition of this supplemental volume, a more correct and
complete edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics—a monumental work that
will continue to inform and inspire students for decades to come, whether in
midtown Manhattan or high in the Himalayas.

Ralph Leighton
May 11, 2005



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Edison117405/05 20:01真理跟鬼話

hgt05/05 20:17不是呀,可1962年印度被打爆了耶!!! 你這不是讓費曼被打臉?

hgt05/05 20:18你看,看費曼物理的,不會打仗XD

Aotearoa05/05 20:18「緊張情勢持續了多年。」

Aotearoa05/05 20:19不是1962年發生的事

TKB556605/05 20:33笑死,在共匪眼中那個費曼也是洋鬼子,要被抓去狠狠批鬥

TKB556605/05 20:35然後中共現在拼命強逼韭菜研讀毛匪澤東的鉅作,費曼的東

TKB556605/05 20:36西要被紅衛兵通通撕爛摔爛燒個精光!你費曼很屌是嬤?

TKB556605/05 20:37現在支那14億韭菜都在發瘋研讀毛選,你費曼的偽科學誰要

TKB556605/05 20:38看啊?中共眼中費曼就是反革命臭老九!費曼的書就是反動

TKB556605/05 20:40費曼你個洋鬼子臭老九書讀得愈多愈反動!鬼子眼珠俱發藍

TKB556605/05 20:45天災人禍都是洋人得罪神佛、數典忘祖而來,而且洋人品德

TKB556605/05 20:45上非常邪惡,通姦、亂倫。神明一怒之下,向義和團附身,

TKB556605/05 20:45賜予神力,毀去西方科技,打倒西方列強,最後能「洋鬼子

TKB556605/05 20:45,盡除完,大清一統靖江山」

TKB556605/05 20:45神助拳、義和團,只因鬼子鬧中原。

TKB556605/05 20:45勸奉教、自信天,不信神佛忘祖先。

TKB556605/05 20:45男不倫、女行姦,鬼孩俱是子母產。

TKB556605/05 20:45如不信、仔細觀,鬼子眼珠皆發藍。

TKB556605/05 20:45天無雨、地焦旱,全是教堂遮住天。

TKB556605/05 20:45神發怒、仙發怨,一同下山把道傳。

TKB556605/05 20:45非是邪、非白蓮,念咒語,法真言。

TKB556605/05 20:45升黃表、敬香煙,請下各洞諸神仙。

TKB556605/05 20:45仙出洞、神下山,附著人體把拳玩。

TKB556605/05 20:45兵法藝、都學全,平定鬼子不費難。

TKB556605/05 20:45拆鐵道、拔線杆,緊急毀壞火輪船。

TKB556605/05 20:46大法國、心膽寒,英美德俄盡消然。

TKB556605/05 20:46洋鬼子、盡除完,大清一統靖江山。

TKB556605/05 20:46弟子同心苦用功,遍地草木化成兵;

TKB556605/05 20:46愚蒙之體仙人藝,定滅洋人一掃平。

Victory205/06 00:15啊,現在我書架上的費曼物理學講義是灰色封面的 XD

wittmann421305/06 00:55不過我相信只要這世上還有人在打游擊,小紅書還是會

wittmann421305/06 00:55有人拿來參考的

MOONRAKER05/06 09:50哇塞是不是毛主席廟的乩童

chordate05/06 10:08灰色是台版的

PsMonkey05/06 10:40遞上紅色奇異筆 [喂]

skytank05/06 12:02一定是挑錯本了,要看大衛哈樂代的才是物理聖經

hsinhanchu05/06 14:59習近平:我們來試試看

Aotearoa05/06 17:03Halliday 的內容比費曼這本還淺啦,大一物理那本,我記

Aotearoa05/06 17:04得我用的那本書皮也是紅色的w

Aotearoa05/06 17:05我不懂的是拿毛語錄向對手示威,是基於什麼動機讓他們這

Aotearoa05/06 17:06樣做,這在人類學或心理學上代表的是什麼?

Aotearoa05/06 17:06這種蠢事我連想都想不出來

※ 編輯: Aotearoa (61.58.110.137 臺灣), 05/06/2023 17:13:05

hgt05/06 19:18就戰無不勝的毛主席思想萬歲呀!!! 既如此,當然要在敵人面前

hgt05/06 19:18揮舞,我覺得有符合邏輯,不會想不懂

PsMonkey05/06 23:49答:我有毛語錄你沒有 [認真]

ja2307200805/07 00:51https://i.imgur.com/PUNk0e1.jpg

圖 中印邊界《毛語錄》vs.《費曼物理學講義》

ja2307200805/07 00:51當年毛語錄就是聖經,無所不能的聖物。你是電、你是

ja2307200805/07 00:51光、你是唯一的神話。

biglafu05/07 12:41好40K的感覺(?)

Silwez05/08 19:11紅皮書我也有一本(Rudin)