花边新闻-关于《费曼物理讲义》与《毛主席语录》

今天在读《Feynman's Tips on Physics》，发现序言很有趣，遂贴出来与大家分享。

Foreword
At a lonely border post high on the Himalayan fontier,Ramasawamy Balasubramanian peered through his binoculars at the People's Liberation Army soldiers stationed in Tibet---Who were peering through their scopes back at him.Tensions between India and China had been high for several years since 1962, when the two countries traded shots across their disputed border.The PLA Soldiers, knowing they were being watched,taunted Balasubramanian and his fellow Indian soldiers by shaking,defiantly,high in the air, their pocket-sized,bright-red copies of Quotations from Chairman Mao---better known in the West as "Mao's Little Red Book."
Balasubramanian,then a conscript studying physics in his spare time, soon grew tired of these taunts.So one day, he came to his observation post prepared with a suitable rejoinder. As soon as The PLA soldiers started waving Mao's Little Red Book in the air again,he and two fellow Indian soldiers picked up and held aloft the three big, bright-red volumes of The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
One day I received a letter from  Mr. Balasurbamanian. His was among hundreds of letters  I have received over the years that describe the lasting impact Richard Feynman has had  on people's lives. After recounting the "red books" incident on the Sino-Indian frontier,he wrote:"Now, twenty years later, whose red books are still being read?"
Indeed. Today, more than forty years after they were delivered, The Feynman Lectures on Physics are still being read---and still inspire---even in Tibet ,I suspect.
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Thus I am  pleased that people interested in Physcis all over the world can now study, with the addition of this supplemental volum,a more correct and complete edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics --- a monumental work that will continue to inform and inspire students for  decades to come, whether in midtown Manhattan or high in the Himalayas.
Ralph Leighton
May 11,2005

如果不介意，可以先看一下我拙劣的译文：

序言
在喜马拉雅山国界的一个孤单的哨所里，Ramasawamy Balasubramanian用双筒望远镜观察者驻扎在西藏的中国人民解放军，他们同样也在用望远镜观察着。从1962年起的几年里，中印两国因为对国界存在争议而关系十分紧张。解放军战士知道自己处于印军的观察之下，他们高举着红色口袋版的《毛主席语录》（在西方这本书更多的以《毛的小红书》而为人所熟知），不断地挥舞着，试图以嘲笑来惹恼Balasubramanian以及其它印军。
Balasubramanian被征召入伍，但他在空闲时间学习物理，很快他就对这些嘲弄感到厌倦。所以一日他回到观察哨所后准备了一份回复。当解放军战士再次挥舞《毛主席语录》时，他就与另外两个印军战士拿出《费曼物理讲义》的红版三卷本，高举到空中（作为回应）。
一日我收到了Balasubramanian的一封信，这仅仅是Balasubramanian与我交流《费曼物理讲义》对人们生活重大影响的数百封信件中的其中一封而已。当他回忆起在中印国界的“红书”事件时，他写道：“现在，二十年后，谁的书仍旧在被人阅读呢？”
确实如此，四十多年后的今天，《费曼物理讲义》仍然被传阅，而且依旧鼓舞人心，我猜测即便是在西藏也是如此吧。
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因此想到世界上许多物理爱好者能看到这本更加正确、更加完整的《费曼物理讲义》，并且辅以这本补充辅导书（指本书——Gosin注）来学习物理我就倍感欣慰————这份伟大的著作必将继续在未来给以更多人以帮助与启示，无论是在曼哈顿还是喜马拉雅山
拉尔夫 雷顿
2005年5月11日

没想到红版的《费曼物理讲义》竟然就这样与我国著名的《毛泽东语录》产生了交集……

毛主席确实改变了中国，Feynman也确实是位伟大的物理学家，教育家，鼓手，开锁者，搞怪者……

怎么说呢？各有各的伟大，只是现在的中国两者都缺。

红版物理讲义与该书

一代伟人毛泽东。

豆瓣链接：

《Feynman's Tips on Physics》：http://book.douban.com/subject/1732375/

《The Feynman Lectures on Physics》（红版）: http://book.douban.com/subject/1448787/

《毛主席语录》：http://book.douban.com/subject/2064814/