If only every man who loved a woman could write such a letter upon her death or every woman who was loved in life could be so adored even in death. There is a certain tragic, melancholic sweetness to the first loves of our lives specially the ones that did not bloom into a full life together.
Feynman perhaps had it better than many but not nearly all that he might have dreamed of when he married his high school sweetheart. Even in this love letter, the amazingly simple way he could express his genius seems to shine. This is a letter to read and remember, think how lucky was the woman to whom it was addressed: No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.
This letter is not so different in spirit that the his famous lectures in physics - the same luminosity and simplicity in how he expresses his ideas - be it the love for his wife or the uncertainty principle
The uncertainty principle “protects” quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater accuracy, the quantum mechanics would collapse. So he proposed that it must be impossible. Then people sat down and tried to figure out ways of doing it, and nobody could figure out a way to measure the position and the momentum of anything—a screen, an electron, a billiard ball, anything—with any greater accuracy. Quantum mechanics maintains its perilous but accurate existence.
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