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Dead Physicist Society Deciphers Giaconda Code

An intimate journal from the pen of deceased Nobel price winning physicist Richard Feynman may serve as  mythbuster to many of the enigmas surrounding the Leonardo Davinci painting ”La Giaconda” . This unpublished study by Feynman was found accidentally in a recessed corner of his former  California home by the  present owner’s  six year old  daughter on march 12 th after earth tremors dislodged  a section of a double wall.

Feynman was a student and admirer of Da Vinci as well as an accomplished draftsman and proud amateur painter.Feynman’s journal entries relate how he first perceived his ability to resolve the paintings many ambiguities and irregularities while lying in a sensory deprivation tank in various altered states  during his teaching tenure at Cal Tech in the 1960′s. Feynman was responsible for introducing the concept of nano-technology and it were these theories along with path integral formulations for particle physics run through his reknown ”Feynman equations” that  broke new ground.

”Davinci seemed to be pursuing multiple independent paths and my knowledge and understanding about light waves and light angles within electo-magentic fields has permitted me to draw some startling conclusions”, recounts Feynman.The physicist worked as a junior researcher to Einstein in the Manhattan Project  who shared with Feynman his notes on his collaboration with Nicholas Tesla  during the Philadelphia  Experiment in 1943. Feynman studied the painting with an electronic microscope but his efforts to de-materialize the canvas and tele-transport the masterpiece were met with resistance  and disapproval by Louvre officials at the time.

The Sheffler family has claimed legal rights over the study, which was never published because of the author’s fear of ridicule  claims  Morris Sheffler, an environmental activist and fundraiser. The study has been serialized and sold for an undisclosed  fee to a leading Daily newspaper in India. For example, the identity of  Davinci’s subject is determined to be a descendent of Italian born 19 th century English economist and philosopher David Ricardo. To amuse himself at Los Alamos the young  Feynman developped  an acute talent for lock-picking and safecracking at the high security Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos  compound and with this study he may have broken one of the biggest conundrums of Western scrutiny. Naomi Sheffler says the study goes into great detail concerning  the unusual position of the arm and wrist and the  real reasons behind the lack of eyebrows and lashes.

Feynman also stated that his proficiency at playing the bongos inspired his resolution of the complicated riddle  regarding the painting’s background by correlating light patterns with specially conceived ”Feynman diagrams”.