Richard Feynman - The Relation of Mathematics & Physics. Part 1

[guwest2]

wish I was aware of Feynman when I was doing 'O' level physics. You'd have thought the teacher could have mentioned him once, even if he's not on the national curriculum.

[excelon13]

I think everyone in that audience wore glasses.

[bundawartini]

Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always Richard Feynman was an inspirational teacher and could illuminate many esoteric concepts in physics with his contagious enthusiasm.

[TKDdans]

Starts at 1:13

[SporadicHesitation]

it makes me happy to see this many views on some of richard feynmans videos

[ClamCrunchy]

Amazing Feynmann knew something about how viruses worked. In the early 1960's, the discovery of DNA was still very knew, and probably very few people knew anything about the genetic basis of viral infection.

[SunriseFestival]

wich year was this?

[DrFruedienslip]

We become what we practice' physics has two kinds the physical and any metaphysical interpretation within construal' its not the word but the word represents' its not what you know about anything but how you know anything' its organizational cognitive skills' L~earn' Know-Ledge' there is no law there are simply principles within any nature'

[DrFruedienslip]

@myrtlebox It would seem that education itself is mostly just a bunch of information to simply place people within individual modes to fill positions to keep things going' programming' I have my own Genre of thought which ismore metaphysical thanmathematical' look at the complexity of the world' metaphysics is all about defining what fruitions any view' which is why QM' issuch a convluted conundrum' however any basis within any sense in literacy is context' soyour right so am I' Mente Concipio 

[myrtlebox]

@DrFruedienslip I have no idea what you are babbling about. It is ironic that some who has nothing to say would be trolling videos of someone who had a LOT TO SAY (Feynman). Go somewhere else where people will 'understand' you better - like metaphysical videos.

[DrFruedienslip]

@myrtlebox Its a free world why does it intimidate you so much? Do you even know what mente concipio stands for? Is everything opposite within the world of authoritarian transgression? Or do you even know what that means when you are afraid of your own shadow? Covered up within your own illusions of thinking you see the world as a motion picture that anyone else knows?

[stewartc777]

@DrFruedienslip Now why one earth would you go and say a stupid thing like that?

[DrFruedienslip]

@stewartc777 It was meant to be funny' Ill remove it' it definately was out of charachter' no worries'

[DrFruedienslip]

@stewartc777 It was meant to be funny' Ill remove it' it definately was out of charachter' no worries'

[DrFruedienslip]

@scuzzulus It uses logical construal but its about how the mind works within any logical assessment within defining anything whic can or does exist' what is an idiot anyway? Its too much to give it any name' there is simply more to life than mathematics so who cares what you thnk of me' I dont know you and you dont know me' so why complain'

[DrFruedienslip]

@DrFruedienslip Why dont ya do some predictions on population growth to predict the future and then mathematics might have some bearing here' 21 bilion within 100 years' now calculate the exponential depletions within the earths natural resources and then ask the question' what are we doing to this planet' ourselves and all other species? Is it a deity's plan? Whats the point within defining quantum mechanics and what does mathematics have to do with metaphysics?

[DrFruedienslip]

@DrFruedienslip what does this mean?

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

~Albert Einstein

[DexterHaven49]

Press 1 to skip the wasteful intro.

[12edDemon]

4:11

Look at all the thick-frame glasses, how stereotypical -.-

[Dujowe]

@12edDemon I guess everyone forgot their contacts at home. :()

[jvclark2]

Just watched this for the first time...holy shit.

[wrnchhead76]

Unrelated, but is it just me, or are the bells at the beginning playing Kellerman's Anthem from Dirty Dancing?

[Encryptsan]

Feynman truly was a legend, no one could explain science better than he could.

For anyone looking for the rest of these lectures Microsoft's Project Tuva is hosting them all.

[bestdamntutoring]

"Mathematics is to Physics as masturbation is to sex." RPF

[Jirinecekal]

@bestdamntutoring "Mathematics is to Physics as genitalia are to sex."

[benoize]

@bestdamntutoring

True. With masturbation you have to use your imagination....

[vMicahs]

@bestdamntutoring lol so true

[vdofam]

thnx 4 this upload. i cant get enough of Feynman

[ahm3s]

CAN'T... STOP... WATCHING!

[generation1313]

I actually felt less stupid after watching this. Probably an illusion that I feel this way, but still...

[donaldnewmanmedone]

Respect from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[harpreetvedi]

thanks for posting this

[scout6686]

pure mental masterbation

[ElPeejerino]

@scout6686 - Suggesting that a discussion about the relationships between sciences is merely "mental masturbation" (while using a direct product of those sciences as a means to communicate) is a tad ironic in my opinion.

This man lived and breathed science for all his adult life, and advanced it more than any other in history, excluding perhaps a handful of people. And you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

Let's listen to him talk, eh?

[scout6686]

@ElPeejerino I have a Bachelors in Physics from UCLA, how about you?

[scout6686]

@ElPeejerino BTW me saying mental masterbation being mental masterbation to me was completely MISinterpreted. Feynman is like pornography to me along with Roger Penrose. You guys are ridiculous...

[ElPeejerino]

@scout6686 - Okay then, my bad. Your comment just came across as negative is all - "mental masturbation" in this context is usually a derogatory term. I apologise.

Also, it wasn't the point I was trying to make, but I also have a Bachelors in Physics, and am doing a second full Bachelors in Comp Sci as we speak. I guess at this point we should just be happy there are like-minded individuals who enjoy the same kind of shit, and go our separate ways ...

[EquinoxParadox91]

He can draw circles very well! Anything he can't do?!

[Nisshoku1729]

holy crap, everyone has glasses! It's like a living stereotype!

[onlyrajarocks]

this is like teaching in student comfort level

[Ogaitnas900]

The begining feels like the first scenes from an awesome horror movie

[Ogaitnas900]

The begining feels like the first scenes from an awesome horror movie

[GaryOldmanfan23]

rachel maddow brought me here

[wengerboy]

4:12 Sylar Bottom left hand corner

[hkhandan]

Love it

[ntipouan]

Thank you thank you thank you ! I'm amazed by the "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" :)

[yuri35435]

His mentioning of discrete/digital math being something of human creation and a poor basis for mathematical thought from the ground up is very impressive.

[ILikeMyYT123]

Only geeks and nerds like those in the audience would giggle and laugh at a physics lecture, because they probably got no life or interest outside physics. Pathetic. But, what's more pathetic is that they believe they are smarter and therefore more worthy as human beings than others, although, in the end, they end up actually contributing very little to advance physics, other than regurgitating pompously and unintelligibly at college lecture halls.

[scrupulousDon]

@ILikeMyYT123 Hmm..If that were the case I do believe we would not have achieved so much in last 50 years but we did. So your statement was merely regurgitation of your own pompous and unintelligibly ignorance that you use to belittle knowledge in order to give solace in your existence. We have people who are finding the vastness of the universe while other still howl at the moon, you sir fall into the latter.

[scrupulousDon]

@ILikeMyYT123 Haha. You are an Idiot. Pay no attention to the dolt, please refrain from addressing or proving any retort to this fool as his kind hinder progress and slow evolution. Please don't breed for sake of mankind.

[ILikeMyYT123]

@scrupulousDon lol, I must've gotten under your thin, geeky skin with lots of zits and freckles!

[kickniko]

Great video!

Still I wished physicists would stop thinking that mathematics is a servant for... solving problems like equations of motion, particle behaviors and the like. Such things are almost arbitrary (but not infinitely!!) unimportant for mathematics.

If physicists would stop converting mathematics to "understandable" nonsense, they would realize that they are already far beyond the Gödel limit in their theories.

But of course... it is easier to calculate than to examine logic itself.

[Mattprole]

@kickniko Surely you aren't suggesting that physicist should restrict their theories to within the "Gödel limit". Quantum mechanics is, as you noted, far beyond this hypothetical limit. One might as why the mod square of the wave function should give a probability of a particle existing within a specific position or momentum basis. it makes me a little uncomfortable as I study these phenomena, sure. However, it may not be possible to formalize physics - we must acknowledge this possibility.

[Master8laster]

Jesus Christ he had a big head.

[snackajack117]

I love 4:11. A sea of excited nerds.

[ILikeMyYT123]

@snackajack117 Of course, Feynman was just like Jesus to them!

[nicholass21]

Thank you so much for uploading these videos! It is an honour to listen to this great man. Thank you for sharing :)

[Juliaensepia]

I have a crush on feyman ever since I read his lectures :)

[Deliwio]

Such a special guy...

[VanillaShoelace]

I don't think we have anyone comparable to Feynman in our generation today. That audience probably got to see in-person one of the last truly great minds of our age... they didn't know how lucky they were.

[GluttonForSex]

@VanillaShoelace I'd dare venture the guess that Stephen Hawking xould have fit the bill. Of course, for obvious reasons, Hawking is no longer going to stand in front of an audience in the way Feynman is doing here.

When you take note of Hawking's sublime sense of humor and the inpeccable timing he tends to show in the delivery of his jokes, it gives off the hint that the kind of thing you see in Feynman seems relatively common in people with a very, very high IQ.

They're truly free spirits.

[skydome29]

@VanillaShoelace I think we do, stephen hawking for one; but the ability to teach and innovate so greatly in a field is incredibly hard to find. We have great minds now, don't forget that.

[nick1f]

Hi, thanks for sharing this video. I think you should make an effort and post all the other movies you've got, their value is historical, probably very few other people have them. Or at least burn some dvd's and give them to somebody who has the patience to upload them to youtube.

[jackburtonfan]

1+1=window

[jackburtonfan]

2+2=4

[katinkers]

the circles he drew for the earth and sun are perfect

[NeverMind9132]

This is part of the "Messenger" series of lectures whose rights were purchased by Bill Gates. The entire series of lectures can be found by looking up "Project Tuva" in Google.

[monstermac77]

Hell yeah, no dislikes.

[UbiquitousChe]

@monstermac77

He said the earth has been orbiting the sun for billions of years.

A young-earth creationist will stumble on this *eventually*.

[monstermac77]

@UbiquitousChe It's surprising that none have found it already, I suppose they like to avoid videos with Physics and Mathematics in the title though.

[tcl83]

Wish I had a teacher like him in school.

[GBAPCLAN]

my grandad used to work as a cameraman and told me that he met faynman and said he was a genius after he worked on a bbc documentry about him

[sexykatie911]

carlosjerez23 my msn in profile! Richard Feynman - The Relation of Mathematics & Physics. Part 1

[skepticnyc]

"Mathematics is to physics what masturbation is to sex."

-Richard Feynman

[kerridied]

I fucking love Feynman. BAMF teacher.

[Philosification]

lol, I came up with that exact thing with the gravitation when I was younger too, kinda wierd seeing such an old video talking about it. Maybe science classes need to teach more of the disproved alternatives.

[doppelmoep]

@Philosification

Alright, since you sound like you know what you are talking about, I am going to ask something potentially stupid. So here we go: Do the particles he is talking about fly at light speed? Because if so, like Einstein said, they would *always* hit the earth at light speed, no matter what earth's speed is. So the particles that fly in the direction of earth's velocity vector would still hit at the same speed,and there would be as many from the front as from anywhere else.

[dragomanrd2]

@doppelmoep so the vectors are not cumulative? is that basically what relativity states in this case?

[doppelmoep]

@Philosification

--> I'm pretty sure gravity is proven to be imposed at the speed of light (the earth is being pulled to where the sun was 8 minutes ago), at least other theories state that. So having the particles fly at light speed would make sense. Also, i don't think we are talking about particles with mass here, that would be too easy to disprove (measure their impact or someting. right?

I was going to weave accellereation and inertia into this , but I think i failed.

[theOGslagster127]

So....

is THIS the guy that said if you can't find shelter in 3 minutes or whatever you might as well just stand still?

Or was that Oppenheimer?

[jawunganyi]

This man Richard Feymann is an treasure that cannot be replaced. Always good listening snd watching him.

[tml4873]

I love the little pauses that allow you to take phrases slightly out of context, which makes them really funny. i.e "the only trouble with it is that it doesn't work"

[pauloabelha]

04:12. Almost everybody wears glasses! I'd be home there... :)

[InnerFood]

@pauloabelha Richard doesn't. Interesting observation

[sfurner]

The back of my head would get just as wet, surely.

[imapersononearth]

Where is part 2?

[hironbat]

wow. thanks for that definitely.

[nuclearbananaphone]

2:30 that's what she said. OK really though this was a great video. :) RF will always be remembered.

[bapyou]

Wow. The overtones accompanying the bells at the beginning are unholy.

[jackofeet1000]

just imagine when ur driving your car in the rain...itl b pounding more on the front than the back...obviously!

[thejugglenaut91]

where did you get the videos? Like did you buy them? I know the lectures are on tape but isn't this something different?

[braindoodle89]

look up Microsoft research project tuva, or just feynman and if you download this in browser media player, Silverlight, you can watch all of the full videos. They are fabulous!!

[astrotter]

Thank you for the tip about Tuva -- It's wonderful to experience an entire Feynman lecture.

[braindoodle89]

@astrotter

My pleasure!!!!

[cesarghan]

imaginense que emocion deben sentir algunos de los estudiantes que asistieron a estas clases! hoy tendrian tal vez unos 65 años, y sin duda ver estos videos les recordará viejos tiempos

[MemphisBlueAgain]

If you run towards the rain, the back of your head wouldn't get less wet than the front, or would it?

Either I'm wrong, or Feynman is.

[darthvacuumcleaner]

You're wrong.

Try it.

Imagine if you sent a ball through the rain at 10000 mph, which side would be dry? the front or the back?

the same thing travelling at 1000mph, although slightly less.

the same thing travelling at 100mph although less still.

the same thing running at 10mph, although much less.

but im sure you can see why now.

[SquirrelGott]

@darthvacuumcleaner  You're Wong. :B

[darthvacuumcleaner]

@SquirrelGott

Im sorry but you're wrong.

If you ran through the rain at a speed faster than the rain was falling you would hit the drops infront of you. The ones above you wouldnt have time to hit the back of your head because you would have moved out of the way before they had time to fall and reach you.

To make it easier to understand, Imagine the rain was falling in slow motion, and you're running at the speed of a rocket. Your face would hit the drops, but the back of your head wouldnt.

[jaymcd84]

@darthvacuumcleaner

right,

and if your interested there's a myth-busters video i believe on this.

[fritspas]

@darthvacuumcleaner

How ever when you start running when it rains softly, you might get indoors before it starts raining harder.

[Qtyled]

It depends on how fast you're going.

At normal running speed there wouldn't be much difference. But let's say you're moving at the same speed as the falling rain. Then from your perspective the rain isn't coming straight down, but at a 45 degree angle into your face.

Thus, if you go fast enough your front would be wetter!

[Aletheophile]

What he's describing is no different in principle the "air resistance" you feel when you're running or driving fast.

[SkeksisRule]

That depends on the direction of the rain and how fast you're going.

[360pi]

this is definitely a case where the "movie" is better than the book! thanks for posting :D

[carlosjerez23]

No problem. I'm glad you like physics

[LeMegasandwich]

Thank you for uploading this :)

[hunterbender]

Thank you. ^.^