{"id":250,"date":"2015-01-03T19:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/BillAngel\/?p=250"},"modified":"2015-01-03T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:01:05","slug":"feynman-asserted-that-science-is-imagination-constrained-by-a-tight-straitjacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2015\/01\/03\/feynman-asserted-that-science-is-imagination-constrained-by-a-tight-straitjacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Feynman asserted that science is imagination constrained by a tight straitjacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe game I play is a very interesting one. It&#8217;s imagination, in a tight straitjacket.\u201d &#8212; Richard P. Feynman<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feynman once said, &#8216;Science is imagination in a straitjacket.&#8217; It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Lawrence M. Krauss<\/p>\n<p>Here is link to a video clip where Feynman makes his science as imagination in a tight straitjacket assertion: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ysYEAC4z66c\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/ysYEAC4z66c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are two shots I took of a street performer entertaining spectators by struggling to get out of a straitjacket while balancing on a large ball. It&#8217;s interesting that some of the spectators watching him have their arms crossed as if they themselves were wearing straitjackets:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/PicsArt_1420323956805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/PicsArt_1420323956805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/PicsArt_1420323956805.jpg 1030w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/PicsArt_1420323956805-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/PicsArt_1420323956805-768x577.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/PicsArt_1420323956805-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe game I play is a very interesting one. It&#8217;s imagination, in a tight straitjacket.\u201d &#8212; Richard P. Feynman &#8220;Feynman once said, &#8216;Science is imagination in a straitjacket.&#8217; It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2015\/01\/03\/feynman-asserted-that-science-is-imagination-constrained-by-a-tight-straitjacket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}