PHYSICIST DYSON FREEMAN’S THOUGHTS ON OUR UNCONSCIOUS MINDS AND THE CREATIVE BREAKTHROUGHS THAT THEY DO GENERATE FOR THE HUMAN RACE
When we talk about being creative and innovative we mostly will be
thinking about working day and night on our projects until we get there.
According to one author who wrote Frankenstein called Mary Shelley, Invention
does not consist of creating something out of void but creating something out
of chaos.
The most valuable inventions were created because of the presence of
chaos.
This is the chaos of existing inspirations that are properly
comprehended and reconfigured into something that is actually new.
Scientist
Albert Einstein termed this as a combinatory play reordering. This process is
usually unconscious and the product of this chaos gives us originality.
While
pursuing his doctorate, Dyson met with Richard Feynman who was working on
formulation of quantum electrodynamics
that were based on his famous diagrams and his method was actually different from the
one of Julian Schwinger.
The experiments were explained in two different ways.
Feynman was using little pictures to explain his concept while Schwinger was
writing down some complicated equations.
During a cross country trip with
Feynman, Dyson discussed some principles in physics with this great scientist
and some of the theories involved in physics.
This opened his mind to new ways
of thinking that gave birth one of the most interesting theory papers ever
written by Dyson.
While reflecting on
the striking feat and the flash of illumination that he came across,
Dyson said it is strange the way ideas
come when they are needed and he
concluded by saying that it was the same for the idea that he generated for
his Trinity Fellowship thesis.
Dyson concluded by describing his
feat in theory by saying that to arrive at the Frontiers of physics it is just
like someone who is breaking through a crust and then one discovers plenty of
room where you can move in a lot of directions.
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