Thursday, May 12, 2005

Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don't know your new address

I was blinded by a terrific silver-white flash — I had to look away. Wherever I looked an enormous purple splotch appeared: it was just as bright when I closed my eyes. "That," said my scientific brain to my befuddled one, "is an after-image caused by looking at a bright light — it is not the bomb you are looking at." So I turned back to look at the bomb.

Excerpts from Richard Feynman's letters.

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