心理学与物理

刚才看到Feynman的一段话，极有意思。

 

Theories of the known, which are described by different physical ideas, may be equivalent in all their predictions and are hence scientifically indistinguishable. However, they are not psychologically identical when trying to move from that base into the unknown. For different views suggest different kinds of modifications which might be made. I, therefore, think that a good theoretical physicist today might find it useful to have a wide range of physical viewpoints and mathematical expressions of the same theory available to him. (R.P. Feynman, “The Development of the Space Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics”, Nobel lecture, reprinted in Physics Today, August 1966)

 

基于心理感受的物理处理结果往往能引起专业物理学家内心深处的触动，此种触动应该具有共同的基础，甚至在审美形式上完全一致，在洞察细节上曲径通幽，是无声的天籁。