Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem

Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by toomuchtodo on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:29PM (#20371044)

Isn’t that how most of us are solving complex problems? Building context and then walking away from the desk for a walk, or perhaps while we’re in the shower in the morning or at night, not focused on the problem but our brain working on it in the background until it is brought forward to our consciousness?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by avip on Saturday July 06, 2019 @02:50PM (#20371163)

There are many similar stories. Famously Tesla's recollection of himself "inventing the inductive motor" while walking in some garden in Hungary, and the discovery of the Benzene ring.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optic... by punnerud on Saturday July 06, 2019 @03:21PM (#20371346)

I often do this when I need a good solution to a problem:

Work hard on it for a while, then leave it for one-two days. More often then not this give a way better end result.

[ Parent | on HN ]