The aha! moment : a scientist's take on creativity

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The aha! moment : a scientist's take on creativity

David Jones

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book is about having ideas and-a much longer haul-making them work. David Jones, best known for his Daedalus column, tells many stories about creators and their creations, including his own fantastical-seeming contributions to mainstream science-such as unrideable bicycles and chemical gardens in space. His theory of creativity endows each of us with a Random-Ideas Generator, a Censor, and an Observer-Reasoner. Jones applies the theory to a wide range of weird scientific experiments that he has conducted for serious scientific papers, for challenging printed expositions, and for presentations to a TV audience. He even suggests new ones, not yet tried! Creativity is as essential to science as curiosity, physical intuition, and shrewd deduction from well-planned experiments. But, says Jones, ingenuity is very uncertain-even for the greatest inventors, about 80 percent of ideas fail. Jokiness can help, and so can lots of random data. Jones has copious clever advice that will help you have that madly brilliant private thought in the first place-and will encourage you to take it further. Neither dense nor demanding, The Aha! Moment is engrossing, edifying, and scientifically serious; yet it is lightly written, has many jokes, and asks lots of silly questions. As Jones shows, it can often pay to take an absurd idea seriously.

目次

Preface: Creativity in My Career 1. A Theory of Creativity 2. The Creative Environment 3. Thoughts on the Random Ideas Generator 4. Intuition and Odd Notions 5. Creativity in Scientific Papers 6. Heat and Gravity 7. Astronomical Musings 8. Rotating Things 9. Explosions and Fuses 10. Tricks with Optics 11. Properties of Materials 12. Physical Phenomena I Have Noticed 13. Odd Notions I Have Played With 14. Literary Information 15. Inventions We Need but Don't Have 16. A List of Silly Questions 17. A Short Guide to Being Creative Notes Index

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