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发信人: asdf (变量), 信区: Science
标  题: 费曼故事(六)
发信站: 紫丁香 (Tue Jun 30 21:51:15 1998), 转信

发信人: tnt (TNT), 信区: Physics
标  题: fey
发信站: 空间科学BBS站 . Fri Mar 28 06:39:08 1997

                           The Supernatural Clock

     � � � � Once we were talking about the supernatural and the
     following anecdote involving his first wife Arline came up. Arline
     had tuberculosis and was confined to a hospital while Feynman was
     at Los Alamos. Next to her bed was an old clock. Arline told
     Feynman that the clock was a symbol of the time that they had
     together and that he should always remember that. "Always look at
     the clock to remember the time we have together," she said.

     � � � � The day that Arline died in the hospital, Feynman was
     given a note from the nurse that indicated the time of death.
     Feynman noted that the clock had stopped at exactly that time. It
     was as the clock, which had been a symbol of their time together,
     had stopped at the moment of her death.

     � � � � "Did you make a connection?" I asked

     � � � � "NO! NOT FOR A SECOND! I immediately began to think how
     this could have happened. And I realized that the clock was old
     and was always breaking. That the clock probably stopped some time
     before and the nurse coming in to the room to record the time of
     death would have looked at the clock and jotted down the time from
     that. I never made any supernatural connection, not even for a
     second. I just wanted to figure out how it happened."

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