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  • When he says "homework is due tonight" I get a sinking feeling and I'm not even in the class. :(

  • Dude, '786allahhuakbar', shut up. I hope you're being really f'n sarcastic because I can't take anything you say seriously. And since I can't take you seriously (when you have a hard time writing simple words out correctly), then you're like the guy in the back of a theater on his cell phone during a movie - SHUT UP! Go protest or something and leave the rest of us alone!

  • this guy is a fukin bastard he is irresponsibil he has the audience that listen to his every word and believ it 2 b tru. HE IS BRAINWASHING HIS STUDENTS and any1 els that belivs everythin he says. da evil twat needs to stik to physics politics and the rest of his lies mayb its his own ill informed misconceptions or msterpretations need to b kept out. but rili its obv HE IS LYING ALOT.

  • OK I genuinely fukin lykt this lecturer thort ok mayb he is a lil brainwasht by media but he is a complete stupid prik listen at 28 minutes what he's sayin what was the underlyin reason for invasion of iraq and did he fukin say cut people slack 4 killin and rapin the innocent. he has an audience he knows hell b viewd online by meni pips he is not dumb so he shud fukin think b4 he speaks. he is fukin sayin its ok 2 kill peopl. this vid made me fil fukin sik y do they use science 4 such vulgarity

  • Now that we know how it works, how do we get rid of them?

  • I'm now smarter than my high school science teacher!

  • Hiroshima in my view was so get the Soviets to bow down to the US. It had nothing in my view to do with a military victory. It shows the start of the cold war.

  • @thantawa That's correct. Read Eustace Mullins' "The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb," making that case. It can be read online for free.

  • @mooninquirer Thankyou. I found a copy and read it. Safe to say it makes for a horrible read - really horrible. I found this quote that confirms what I said a week go. ----- Admiral Leahy, from I Was There, "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagaski was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons."

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  • @thantawa Of course one reason for the bomb was to prevent Russia from invading Japan, but I believe that the use of the bomb was primarily to protect our attacking forces, then to protect Japan. The choice was thought out by smart men, and I believe it was the best choice.

  • Wow. eye-opening lecture. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

  • yeah sure, the world is full of terrorists! But if I remember correctly, the country which killed more than 100.000 innocent people with nuclear bombs was the U. S.

    You're the terrorists.

  • @Emiins Nope, Hiroshima was a military, industrial and economic hotspot. It was a high priorty target. The Death's of 60,000 people was in the long run worth it. Hitler was the terrorist he killed millions. Millions or 60,000?.....I think Millions makes Hitler a bigger terrorist.

  • @NANOFORGE Do you realize you just rationalized away 60,000 lives? Yeah, in the long run, who cares if we killed 60,000 lives, I mean we didn't care if millions of indigenous people in North America were decimated, what's 60,000 lives?

  • @jvl4289 Tell me which is worse, the Death of 60,000 people or the deaths of 100s of millions of people and the enslavery of the entire Human race?.

  • @NANOFORGE Tell me how that is relevant at the time when the bomb was to be dropped.

  • @jvl4289 If the bomb was'nt dropped then the war would of lastest alot longer and more would of died plus the US was barely holding it's own against the Japanese empire not to mention the russians and the british were having a hard time too. Dropping this bomb helped defeat a seemingly unstoppable foe.

  • @NANOFORGE Wow, you seriously need a history lesson. By the time the option to drop the bomb was available, the Japanese were already forced back into their own country and encircled.

    The US was doing just great, the British and the Russians had nothing to worry about as Germany already surrendered. The Japanese Empire couldn't do anything offensive by that point.

    Check your facts...

  • lol, look at recording date and then talk about recent events

  • 0:19:29

  • unbelievable how he praises the safety of nuclear reactors in light of what happened to GE reactors in Fukushima

  • @buzzie244 Do you know that this is from 2006, that's like 4-5 years before Fukushima...

  • this is from 06.....way to pay attention

  • @buzzie244 he doesn't. I payed attention to the whole thing.

  • he seems like a great professor.  very good lecture.

  • In soviet russia, nuclear reactors have positive thermal coefficient!... ha .. ha ha ha.

  • @Rileyman2rr in soviet russia a "chain reaction" is called fusion. hahahah

  • Ah Chernobyl, the Ford Pinto of nuclear power.

  • @ThatMan0verThere That is possibly the best metaphor i have seen in a long time.

  • These lectures are really great. I can cut them on and relax learning things... for free! Long live the internet.

  • @Falsate totoally its like saving 40000 a year but without the degree

  • why would 13 people dislike this?

  • @prempremprem muslims?

  • @jessexbraughton maybe, pricks

  • @prempremprem I think he's a little too even-handed in dealing with controversial issues for some people's tastes.

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  • Atomic masses do make a difference, mainly for kinetics.

  • Great lecture, thanks from Sweden.

  • I'm pretty confident only 1% of all those whos watched this actually understands wtf he is saying.

  • @Crealtos It's not that hard to understand lol...

  • @baseballplayer2600

    Then I'd like you to sum it all up for me. You have 15 minutes. Go.

  • @Crealtos You expect someone to condense and dumb down 70 minutes into 15 so that you neither miss something nor misunderstand something?

  • @MarikBentusi

    It's called to summarize something. Obviously, if you don't know how to do it, I doubt you even understand anything about this lecture. Gtfo wanna-be smartass.

  • @Crealtos My, my, so defensive and aggressive. I'll draw my own conclusions from that.

  • @Crealtos

    It's really not that hard to understand....

  • Why doesn't his worst case szenario include a hydrogen explosion?

  • Watched the whole thing. That was very interesting and it taught me more about what's going on in Japan.

  • @mrjost55 It should be required watching for any journalist wishing to cover the situation.

  • This is something that the news media ought to watch, the spread of paranoia by a stupefying lack of knowledge/research doesn't help anyone. Instead of looking into things, people seem to operate on 30-40 year old paranoia because it's easier?

  • @wildzeromadness It helps to sell newspapers. To the media, fear is money.

  • @LordLoco87 Hows it feel to be wrong, BEYIIIIIITCH. lay down son

  • @wildzeromadness Looks like they were more on the ball than the people who said nothing could possibly go wrong!

  • cool chalkboard!!!

  • How come i understand this lecture - in a non native language - better than the one in my campus?

  • There are still 11 Chernobyl Class (RBMK-1000) operational in Russia.

  • Wow I love Berkeley

  • Wow!

    I wanted to watch a little bit but ended up watching this whole video! sheesh...... awesome lecture

  • will he talk about handling the nuke codes?....this class is for future presidents, right HAHAHA

  • I was bored after the first 30 seconds

  • @Killerwasabi wow. you must be a genius considering this is basic physics for literature and history majors

  • @joeglimmix What does that have to do with the interest a person holds for physics?

  • @MinGophers i was replying to somebody complaining this is so easy that he found it boring. i told him this lecture was not for hardcore physics people but instead for non-majors. if he is so smart that this is boring let him go watch higher level physics videos instead of bitching about it.

  • Absolutely enthralling,... cant stop watching! I miss Cal

  • WOW, just watched the whole lecture! Im just finishing off my Physics GCSE and we would never get naught in this kind of depth! Soo easy to understand, and soo interesting! Thank you for the video!

  • Man the concept of nukes is so easy to understand I learnt how they work when I was 10

  • great lecture thanx i learned alot

  • I wish Muller was my prof.

  • UC Berkeley. I'm impressed that Berkeley students are actually being taught this subject as PC Berkeley is.

  • he is great teacher, but i'm really sad to see that he'll be retiring soon.. wikipedia him..

  • @FernandoPST yeah, ive checked him... pretty sad.

  • Good lecture howver I wish he would have talked more about the contrbutions made by Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn in the research the fissioning of u235 their roles in the discovery of fission must ALWAYS be remembered.

  • "Today we're doing nukes. We're starting on nukes. We got three days of nukes." Instant classic.

  • lol. First thing he says, "We have three days of nukes"

  • @WhatASean good for you.

  • This lecture put my nuclear reactor fears to rest at least with American designed ones. Thank you for putting this video on Youtube.

  • I wonder how much energy a nuke would gain being accelerated by nuclear powered rockets in space.

  • im in 7th grade and understand this thanks

  • He is really an excellent teacher, isn't he?

  • I'm in the 7th grade too and the concept is extremely easy to understand.

  • Great teacher. I'm in 9th Grade Physics and I understood everything. That's difficult for a teacher to achieve.

  • Why would someone thumbs down you? lmao

  • thanks i can pass now

  • richard muller is a fantastic individual and teacher... i emailed him with a few questions and he was extremely polite and supportive. we need more teachers/people like this

  • @whentheskyfalls can I ask you his e-mail? Because I also have some questions in physics..

  • @girocraz just type in his name on google. he has his own website. he got back to me in one day.

    because of this video, i took a nuclear weapons course in college and was able to represent the united states at the student non-proliferation treaty review conference last april. THANK YOU MR. MULLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!1

  • Thanks again Professor Muller you are such an amazingly interesting and intellectual person.

  • LMFAO, "Today were dooin NOOKS. We're startin on NOOKS. Three days of NOOKS".

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  • lols I thought that was cute in an annoying way

  • @skyd171 It has three foower Nootrans!

  • I dont like the units this teacher uses,

    dont all physists use meters,kilometers,and basicly the metric system.

  • im maybe going to Ucla or stanford or berkeley

  • very interesting! Too bad I quit on science after grade 10

    is this an elective class? Teacher seems great

  • I attended his classes and you don't find a nuke in my backyard, it's a little more complex than listening to a lecture on YouTube. Why are you on the Internet, after reviewing your favorites you are one of these guys that hops around on YouTube watching a few videos and suddenly a you are an expert in physics. Does Croatia have a nuclear program.

  • You assume Kim Jong II can even understand these videos.

    I wonder if even half his class-room understands his lessons. But that's a different debate. I certainly hope we have a future of very bright students so maybe future misunderstandings can be fixed.

  • This information has been circulating publicly since at least the 1960s. The cat has been out of the bag for a very long time.

    The only non-imaginary deterrence to atomic bomb-building is the ignorance of politicians and religious leaders.

  • this is common knowledge in the physics community

  • Very well aware of that son - As there are books on the subject too, but since everyone in this place writes goofy comments, I decided to write one too--- However, I still have to understand why it received 3 minuses, who in their right mind wouldn't find the irony of that statement funny or at least somewhat amusing?

  • see.... irony

  • TruthLogic, why must you stupid conspiracy nuts keep pushing these ideas forward? its about as stupid as the idiots who think we didn't land on the moon or that obama was born in kenya

  • Sloppy is sloppy, period! To convince someone who is not an expert in a given area, how one presents oneself is even more important; so, if you want to convince someone of something, make an effort to present your argument well. If you don't want to convince anyone but yourself, that's a different story, but then, why are you arguing your point here? Believe me, you cannot win the argument, that it is okay to be ungrammatical; except perhaps if the one who is judging happens to be a moron.

  • One can learn a lot from this series. However, I feel there is a very real chance that there is a definite agenda being pushed here, that is government sponsored to push a pro-nuclear power agenda. After all, the american people have been fooled before. I remember being taught to hide under my desk in the event of a nuclear attack.

  • I can understand why you have a certain amount of suspicion to what Professor Muller is lecturing about in regard to nuclear material having watched two weeks of network news concerning the death of M. Jackson. It seems to me that the network news is more concerned with sensationalism, not science. In the poetic words of Don Henley, in his song, "Dirty Laundry", from which I quote, ...It's interesting when people die....Get the widow on the set!

  • Hopefully, you can follow my line of thought. The media doesn't want science but showbiz, that is, drama. You are right that we can learn a lot from Dr. Muller. But, please don't get under your desk again.

  • BTW, if I have to watch one more thing on TV about Michael Jackson I think I'm going to be ill! Are we really that stupid in America that this can pass as news?

  • I hope that I am absolutely wrong. It's a wonderful thing to provide this kind of education for free. Nevertheless, I would hope that any future politician would be skeptical of any presentation - no matter how well it's made. I mean, unless one is in the position to experimentally verify what one is told, one is forced to believe experts, and some experts have their own agendas.

  • It's not whether something can be experimentally verified. Scientists are generally very very careful about that. it is whether someone without scientific training can understand any experimental result. Or what if nature doesn't like to serve their agenda? What Prof. Muller is lecturing here makes common sense to a reasonably good college physics major. To everyone else? I don't know.

  • I would feel much more confident about what you say if you could actually write grammatically correctly. Is it the case that a good college physics major can get by without a firm grasp of the english language? I don't mean to be rude, but one does need to consider how something is said, as well as what is being said. This is a standard part of critical analysis: considering one's source. A future president should know this.

  • The abillty to write in grammatically correct english isn't required to be good at physics.

  • The ability to write well is, however, necessary to make a convincing argument. Are you as likely to believe someone who has mastered all the liberal arts as someone who has not? Any future president should be sufficiently mindful of the traits of his advisors to spot an illiterate among the educated. Now I do accept that there are idiot savants who have certain skills, but I am more likely to listen seriously to a polymath.

  • As someone who never thrived as an english student but is incredibly passionate about and interested in the world around us and the further understanding of this world i would totally agree! not being interested in shakespeare or not re reading your youtube comments to make sure they are "grammatically correct" doesn't subtract anything from your ability as a mathematician or indeed a physicist.

  • completely agree. I can't write anything.

    i need a speech recognition program to write anything.yet i am marvellous at

  • "Nuclear power" has nothing in common with "nuclear weapons".

    Nuclear power isn't just a way forward, it's the only legitimate way forward.

    Nuclear weapons, well, that's another debate.

  • What video does he refer to make the class watch?

  • Isnt he incorrect when he says they never tested the nukes before dropping it on japan? What happened july 16th 1945 in new mexico?

  • Mr Muller's point was that the "Little Boy" uranium gun bomb had not been tested.

    He explains (at 21 through 35 minutes)that the reason for this was that there was not enough material to make two of this type of bomb.

    The implication is that it is easier to make Plutonium. So you can make enough of them (more than one) to allow a test. And you want to because it is more difficult to make it (fat boy) work correctly.

    A gun (uranium) design is dumb and simple. So it will work.

  • 2:04... No boob jokes?

  • I wish i knew as much as this guy , hopefully some day i will. im 15 about to start further education in physics next year. so anyway thanks for uploading these course videos also the ones on psychology. those two are my fav subjects

  • Agreed, I'm exactly the same.

  • Very informative, given the overview nature of these lectures. I worked at LNL, had the privilege of working on a couple of Alvarez/ projects, and thoroughly enjoyed the asides.

  • What you suggest is that he is pto-n and that's why says what he says. I think he says what he knows, and what he knows makes him pro-n. And he is a famous scientist, so i believe him not you, sorry.

    What is more probable is that you are anti-nuclear energy.

  • Thats bull man

    good to be skeptical but have a winge about Dams, coal ect there are much worse than Nuclear power ie in NZ many people live in the Direct path of a Dam which has a much larger chance of failure than a modern Water (or Heavy water) nuclear reactor

  • i don't think we are so much afraid of terrorists making nuclear weapons. i think we are scared of them stealing them. however, even then, they would have to steal a delivery system. eh, i'm sure some guy who's not paying attention to his monitor would be happy to let them slip by ;)

  • are there students in this class?

  • yes, in some lectures he asked questions to them.

  • what...? just take a look at it whene camre zooms out. There are people, like on any other lecture.

  • fascinating.

  • oops, forget my previous comment.

  • man this makes me miss my university days so much

  • Having gotten a BSc. in physics a few months ago, all I can say is I wish my instructors were as good as Muller. I would have retained so much more. It seems a lot of schools hire profs based simply on research credentials and past accomplishments. It would be nice if public speaking skills actually factored into it.

  • You are the best phycsics instructor i never had, I have all of your lectures on your podcasts i haved learned a lot form you and now my friends think i am supper smart :)

  • yeah, and i just started, i hope mine friends will think i am dinner smart too!

  • You know what's wrong with this instructor? He gets so interesting I can't stop watching the lecture. One can't help but learn from him.

  • @landin048 its not the wrong thing ,its right thing thts we r so inerested in his lectures.

  • @mrvishal1000 haha, you are so right. I was being ironic. Aren't these great?!

  • A network with a million people around the world, and a league of nations can make an h-bomb.That's how France and the UK made their HBOMB. URENCO was an open investment company for such endeavours. Besides the A.Q. Khan network have been making u235 all around the world in secret.

  • DONT DO PHYSICS IN MILES !

    METERS ONLY

  • YES metric is the way to go

  • that's bullshit, you are mixing up many different facts

  • i bet the folks down in heroshima know all about this..

  • lol. "high school student discovers atom bomb."

  • AWESOMEMEEEEE PROFESSOR!

    I envy you all!!!

  • true Gowtham, he is awsome. (nadeem here)

  • Lol hi.

  • I thought university was hard :P

  • In a Derrick Jensen book (A Language Older Than Words), at one point he talks about some flyby space probe mission that had some Plutonium-238 on board (which he says is "200 times deadlier than Plutonium-239"), and he made it sound like it was just some random crazy thing that scientists do which, if it crashes, could kill us all, or something like that. I'm glad I now have more support for my belief that the guy is a nut-job, haha.

  • Brilliant physics. Infantile politics. Oh well, I guess he's a specialist.

  • The lecturer does resemble Albert Einstein...

  • Doesn't care if the students are proud or ashamed that the process created at their university was used end WWII.

  • go fuck yourself

  • a great professor!! i envy the students who are taught by him.

  • Professor Muller teaches physics so well.

    This is my favourite lecture. I've lost count of how many times I have seen it, and I'm still learning things from it. Thank you so much for uploading these!

  • Why is he defining atoms by their number of electrons? Electrons come and go.

  • Otherwise, cool lecture!

  • Chemical reactions between elements are solely the product of electron reactions, whether through ionic or covalent bonds.