"Why" questions are code. They are code for "the person asking the question doesn't understand the question they are asking" or "the person asking the question just wants to fight." Even "how" questions are a bit limited. Feynman was at a disadvantage because the concept of model-dependent realism wasn't reall around in his time. Now we know that any explanation has to be understood as a model of reality, and evaluating their 'truth' is really not the same as saying it is 'real.'
Sometimes when people ask why, what they really mean is how. I think the thing with magnets is that even if you can explain the physics behind it, magnets still seem like magic.
Are you people deaf? He answered the question. Magnetism is caused by electrons spining in the same direction. So why ordinary matter like let's say wood stays not influenced?
-Because electrons spinning in many different direction make the force cancel out.
I agree with Feynman. Asking why something is the way it is is kind of stupid; if it was'nt the way it is then you would'nt be asking why in the first place. In fact even if you had an answer for why something is, without knowing the context at which it is why it is you will not know anything at all about it, just a collection of incomprehensible data. For example, asking "why is this a video": in what context is it a video? How do you define what a video is? How is a proper question, not why.
Two copper loops carrying electrical current are known to attract each other if the directions of the currents are the same. Ampere and Maxwell knew that in the 1800s. Ferromagnetism is similar, except that the "current" comes from electrons spinning around their axis (not really, but this is the closest that anyone can explain electron spin without invoking special relativity). So if electrons in the two magnets are aligned on an average, they attract, and if misaligned, repel.
@philipralph To continue, this is a crappy explanation, as Feynman pointed out. Why do the copper loops attract? We don't know, but we can calculate exactly how much (electrical engg is based on this). Why do electrons have spin? Don't know. The answer depends on the level of detail you are prepared to go into.
Lol!!!! Those people who are crying like little babies because they didn't get the answer they wanted to how magnets work have totally proved what Fynman is saying in this video. To have a correct wholistic understanding you need to look much deeper at the issues. Otherwise all you end up doing is giving names to phenomonon without saying what is actually happening.
thumbs up if you got here looking up "F**king magnets, how do they work?" Word to your interest in learning and not remaining a dumb ignorant superstitious morons like ICP.
Its a shame when someone so smart cant explain complex theories in simple terms. That is why Einstein is so famous because he could explain complex ideas in simple terms. E=MC2.
" fucking magnet how do they work and I don't want to talk to a scientist , yall motherfucker lying and getting me pissed" imagine the discussion this man and ICP would have.
@939Socket Well actually he makes a good case. Explaining in relation to a non perfect analogy will ruin you at some point. As you associate with whatever analogy he's making. Best way to understand something is to make up a new picture (if you may).
So that when you try to think of it again you don't remember the rubberbands between the magnets, instead you're thinking of something else more fitting. So you then understand that the force gets weaker when you pull apart. Not stronger.
@939Socket Well actually he makes a good case. Explaining in relation to a non perfect analogy will ruin you at some point. As you associate with whatever analogy he's making. Best way to understand something is to make up a new picture (if you may).
So that when you try to think of it again you don't remember the rubberbands between the magnets, instead you're thinking of something else more fitting. So you then understand that the force gets weaker when you pull apart. Not stronger.
anti-matter its just ordinary matter going bacward in time. That will explain how we can never know the exact position of a electron, it migth be the same electron doing u turns bacwards and forwards in time. Dark matter and energy are diferent there is a theory that staes that dark matter is a form of matter but in a higher dimension, this supports the Big splat theory.
Bizarrely the featured video next to this one was "Insane Clown Posse - Miracles" which is one of the most ignorant songs - I have ever had the misfortune to hear.
@StripedStang08 no, then you would be saying "why did he just say that there's no answer to the question? what an asshole". The whole video is an explanation of why he can't really answered, it is very insightful really.
The problem with half of you idiots is that you actualy expect an actual answer to the "why" question, infact your scared of not geting your answer typically the reason most of you idiots turn to faith is that your not okay with the idea of uncertainty you need to know how things work and that theres a reason for everything. Well the universe dosn't work that way you can either live in reality or in the fantasy world you idiots have created.If you don't like it go pray to your imaginary freinds.
@dopemcee RofL? what do u mean just answer the question? you cant ask questions like this, the "why" questions never ends things do what they do because thats how it works in this universe, obviously the idiot reportet didnt even know what he really wanted he jumps from "why" to "how" in under a second, these are two very diffrent ideas. If i asked you abou apples then i switched the conversation to the habitat of zebras in africa youd look at me like I was crazy,but here you think its diffrent?
@dopemcee Hes smarter then that, he could have answered the question in about a billion different ways none of which the reporter would understand. So he saved the undereducated reporter the trouble of having to make sense of what he was told. Its like if a 2 year old asked you about calculus. Its hard to give an accurate description when the 2 year olds knows almost nothing. Its like a grass hopper pondering the question of his existence in this universe.
There is a limit to understand anything, we call that Limit a Law. Gravity is garbage after we discovered General relativity same with magnetic force and magnets., Feynman is only asserting the reality of nature, that our understanding is not correct so he says he doen't know. His great statement was "If you say I understand Quantum mechanics, then you don't understand it".
My definition of hell? You're late for a flight, and you pull your car over to ask a stranger on the sidewalk, "Which way is the airport?"-that stranger is Feynman. Haha!
the fact is how magnetism works is unknown. the same thing goes with gravity, we can prove it's there, but cant prove WHY it's there. we cant find any particles or energies that is interactively holding the gravity, read into the Large Hadron Collider. scientists are smashing particles are near light speads to break em open and are hoping to find a theorized "gravity particle"
maybe there are magnetic particles we haven't discovered yet. so simply put, we observe magnets working, but not how
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Summed up, we dont know shit, an modern science and atheism is turning into as much a religion as any its critisized.
The reality is we dont even have the beginning of the ability to form the questions to lead up to the beginnings of forming the questions we want to know.
I wish more atheists would start acting like REAL men / women of knowledge.
@RedGrobo Your summary has little to do with the video. I suspect you either didn't watch it or you feel awfully insecure in your religious belief and take every opportunity to reinforce yourself with pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
Thats very incorrect, i know my summary isnt all the video says, but it is covered, stop being an insecure fool yourself, so much so you need to type this rebuttle in an attempt to reinforce your beliefs, and a legitimate critique to them which was highlighted here.
Summed up we dont know shit, he said it plain as day many times.
@RedGrobo What critique? You asserted that science and atheism are turning into religions and failed to supply evidence for your assertions. You clearly don't understand what science is or what it seeks to understand and you don't understand atheism or the difference between positions on knowledge and positions on belief. I'll say it again, pseudo-intellectual bullshit. If you want to change my mind, provide evidence for your assertions and learn what an assertion is.
@RedGrobo Please, if you would like to discuss your comments, do it where they were made rather than my personal channel. If you are brave enough to make such ignorant hateful remarks in public, than you ought to be brave enough to defend them in the public arena. Otherwise, you can either keep your hate to yourself or admit your error and apologize for your unprovoked attack on millions of people that happen to be atheist.
@m2m4m6m8 Actually he seems to suggest that beyond a certain point you have to use maths and physics to describe actions since they are outside of everyday comprehension. Ofc if you ask "What is the purpose of magnetic force?" then no answer can be given.
@REXVS a.) nice tantrum to show me how smart you are. b.) he could have just answered the fucking question instead of rambling on about the word choice of the guy who was interviewing him. he knew exactly what the interviewer meant when he was asking the question. c.) i'm not insulting him because i'm "incapable of grasping magnitude". i'm insulting him because i grasped that he's a jerk.
@lookitsagrape1 Don't misunderstand... its not a question of a tantrum or not.. It is specifically because of the poor choice of wording that the question became so hard to answer... (I'm assuming we're on the same page here where we both agree the interviewer asked for an explanation of magnetic forces) ...It is specifically because I assume that is what was understood that he tried to explain that the question cannot be answered without 3-4 years of physics and mathematics classes.
@lookitsagrape1 Continuation of previous reply : in a way that it is simple and concise... If he is a prick in real life or not? Maybe...I frankly never met the man and you might be completely correct in calling him one... however... taking this video as a sign of him being one is unfunded and a misinterpretation of intention and reasoning.
The reason Feynman does not answer this interviewers question directly, it seems to me, is because he can tell that an answer he could give would not be appreciated by the interviewer. If you actually listen to the way the question is addressed, it is like the interviewer is saying "I want you to jump through a few hoops for me, just to see if your up to scratch"-the impression of someone who just wants science to be performed as a series of parlour tricks by people who dedicate their life to it
@MuonRay The reason he can't answer the question is because a 'why' question requires that the person asking the question allows something to be true as a framework; otherwise they will ask 'why' all over again no matter what your answer is. So a question 'why' these magnetic forces exist will not be satisfied because Feynman allows the existence of magnetic forces to be true as a base for his framework understanding of reality. Phenomena are explained by the framework of forces, not vice versa.
Feynman didn't suffer fool or pretenders. He hated being made to feel as though because he is a Physicist, he has to inform the world of something we just have to accept (I.E magnetic fields).He could go on for hours bending your ear about magnetic forces & the reaction of atoms within iron ore, but as an interviewer that guy would be blown away!
"If you don't like it, go somewhere else!" is what Feyman should have said. The guy should be ashamed for even asking the question...
@zakzikr He's explaining why no answer is possible in terms suitable for the context. It was a profounder question than the interviewer knew, so he chose instead to explain just *how* profound.
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Why? Thats easy. Because God made it that way so the universe would work properly. Whoa that was easy. It only gets hard when you eliminate God. Makes the answers of which came first, the chicken or egg a no brainer.
@MahanaimCh If all people thought like this then there would be no physics, no science and no modern technology for you to be saying this. It is the cognitive equivalent of surrendering; giving up. You are right that the issue becomes a no-brainer when you ascribe it all to God - you are completely removing THINKING from the process and thus the brain really isn't involved.
There's a few people who can get away with this tone of reply; namely experts. You better prove you know what you are talking about though, otherwise it just sounds arrogant or angry at the person you are taking to. In Professor Feynman's case, obviously he can pull it off...
I am surprised Feynman could'nt answer this with more logic- what he is saying is true( most ''why'' questions are not really questions, true, and indeed those ''why'' questions asked that are truly questions form infinite regressions of smaller questions- that ITSELF is a branch of mathematics; i.e group theory and allows the most complex theories ever conceieved- M-theory for example, to form predictions at all) but I think he should have just said ''the momentum of exchanged photons''.
@h4kesi The problem with people like you is your ignorant and un accepting you don't look at what hes saying for value of his words rather at the differnce in oppinion and because he seems diffrent to you, you think its justifyable to throw in a couple cuss words and repeat an ignorant question that was also said by the reporter, and the sad reality of western society is that many tend to agree apon this sense of ignorance as we can see.. you have 17 thumbs up.
How about you shut up and don't take every youtube comment seriously ? I made a joke 9 months ago and you type some shit about difference in opinions. I liked his elaborate explanation and made a witty short comment and you judge the entire humanity on it.
@pepomk123 Except no, its not a "F**k you!" It's the opposite of that! It's a "F**k me!" A "F**k us!" It's about distinguishing the questions that can possibly be answered from the questions that can not be. "Why" questions can't be answered, because knowledge ultimately depends on observation! If we keep asking "why," as Feynman demonstrates, then at the end of the day we still don't know "why" things are happening, we can only say THAT they are happening. It's about accepting one's mortality!
@sweatpants1212 just because all 'why' questions can't be answered certainly shouldn't mean that we can't answer some of them. Seems like a rather illogical argument to me.
@morningstomper123 Absolutely agree. I mean to say: Why is phenomenon A happening? Because phenom B is happening. To some people, that may beg the (legitimate) question, "Why is phenomenon B happening?" Hence, the "why" question becomes an infinite pursuit, and it's only the ULTIMATE "why?" which can't be answered.
"Why?" remains. But in the meantime, we ARE answering WHAT is happening in each step, and our knowledge of WHAT happens grows. That's the perspective of science. That's its domain.
@drgdrf He did, it's called Quantum Electrodynamics; he explained it for the entire world to understand. It's why he's famous. You can find it in a book; it really doesn't fit into a 4 minute video.
@fukkkkka that is exactly the response i was going to write up until i saw yours, well done i think your response is very clever and best describes someone so esoteric as the great Richard Freynman, in both a very deep and hard to understand manor yet at coincidently so very easy to understand. im doing medicine and hopefully someday ill get there but the more i listen to RF the more i want to understand quantum mechanics. once again well done a very clever comment.
A magnetic field is created by a moving electric field. In a nonmagnetic object, electrons are all spinning in different directions and the magnetic fields cancel out. In magnets, electrons are all spinning in the same direction so that the magnetic fields interact constructively and amplify. Why these fields and forces exist is a complicated topic that is difficult to explain to an individual who lacks a solid background in physics. There are entire courses on this subject.
@njb444 But you are missing the point, what you have just reeled off has opened up at least another 20 questions that require answers. That's what Faynman was getting at. How deep down the rabbit do you need to go until you're satisfied?
njb444 basically answered the question of why magnets are special compared to non-magnetic matter, as did Feynman. Neither answered the question about attraction versus repulsion, which is what Feynman meant about explaining something in terms of something you are already familiar with.
I had a friend like this once. I didn't have enough years on this planet to maintain a relationship with her and have a life too. Is Richard married by any chance?
not any more - he died in 1988. but he was married... and he had two kids (one of whom is involved in some aspect of scientific work - no surprise, eh).
So you completely missed what he meant lol. Do you think that by shifting the phenomenon from the magnet to the atoms in the magnet you somehow answer the why?
For the first several minutes, I felt like Feynman should have simply said something about atom alignment or even gone with a simple, "I don't know -- no one does."
However, I think I finally got his point. Had he simply said that the atoms "line up" which "makes a field," then the answer would have been nearly as vacuous as the question.
Ah, but such is science... and I think THAT was the message he got across (at the expense of explaining magnets, of course).
I have never taken any physics class, but all of this made perfect sense to me, including his thought process on the difficulty of answering 'why' questions. This guy is great.
Feynman isn't trying to patronise or insult anyone here. He's showing the depth of his intellect; he's actually trying to define the 'why' question. That's the root of Physics, all science really (and dare I say religion). Incredible guy (great bongo player too!!).
He's insulting your knowledge. He assumes that the majority of the audience he's speaking to doesn't know the nuances of physics. Which is a correct assumption. A physicist will be reading his studies and books, the layman will be watching an interview of him trying to explain certain things simply.
Trust me bro, here is your answer. There is a complicated force than the EM, perhaps a manifestation of something known, associated with living things. This force induces a desire for existence and multiply, ultimately creating all sorts of troubles and happiness of life. Love is a process this force does it's action trough allowing for reproduction. That is why most people fall in love during the ages when they can reproduce. Greed, sympathy etc, which exist in all living things, are others.
The common reality in the universe: X theory completed 0 + 1 * infinity * infinity / infinity
(God) (Sound) (Frequency) (life) (Perspective) This is my conclusion , in my book the real truth of the universe. This verifies Einstein's field of theory and well as Aristotle, If your familiar with all the theorys it will be obvious, if your not, won't care anyway, I will try to unite all the theoretical laws and show a conclusion that explains the universe logic.
ahh i wish he had gone into more depth, i have been learning heavily about the electrostatics, electrodynamics and magnetism this semester and it would have been great if he had talked more about it
i believe that people such as fyneman and einstein and many others who are extremely interested in the physical world should have a longer life span, and those who chose to "LEAD" the world, should simply die
People take classes on magnetism and other related sciences. I think Richard Feynman believes that the field deserves more respect than he can answer in a 7 min response to such a general, and unintelligent, question. I would agree with him and i completely understand this.
@Siradon Feynmann himself said it was an excellent reasonable question and you said it was a general and unnintelligent. Can an excellent question be unninteligent?
"Why" questions are code. They are code for "the person asking the question doesn't understand the question they are asking" or "the person asking the question just wants to fight." Even "how" questions are a bit limited. Feynman was at a disadvantage because the concept of model-dependent realism wasn't reall around in his time. Now we know that any explanation has to be understood as a model of reality, and evaluating their 'truth' is really not the same as saying it is 'real.'
otakucode 6 days ago
And now for something utterly fundamental!
fiesta181 2 weeks ago 2
I don't know who this guy is. but he seems to know how to use is brain very well :D
garshmanager 1 month ago
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Sorry I just had to say it. :3
ithrowfeces 1 month ago
He could of said I dont know. Then i would of asked him
why he did not know? Smashing guy, Just less coffiee might
help?
paddym787 1 month ago
just answer the question! this guy's favorite sound, is the sound of his own voice!
lefthendrix 1 month ago
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Discipline07 1 month ago
Sometimes when people ask why, what they really mean is how. I think the thing with magnets is that even if you can explain the physics behind it, magnets still seem like magic.
itsabomberscope 1 month ago
Are you people deaf? He answered the question. Magnetism is caused by electrons spining in the same direction. So why ordinary matter like let's say wood stays not influenced?
-Because electrons spinning in many different direction make the force cancel out.
diabelek945 2 months ago 3
The fuck ... he looks exactly like Charlie Sheen O.O
kingviper5001 2 months ago
Mr. Feynman, every word you said made me feel happy.
husbathu 2 months ago 2
I wouldn't mind watching Feynman go into an infinite sequence of "Why?" questions
rayray66 2 months ago 2
what a fucking dick. he knew exactly what the guy was asking.
lookitsagrape1 2 months ago
@lookitsagrape1 You didnt understand the answers he gave did you?
ronocko 1 month ago
the greatest non-answer on magnets I have ever heard
kiel108 3 months ago 2
I agree with Feynman. Asking why something is the way it is is kind of stupid; if it was'nt the way it is then you would'nt be asking why in the first place. In fact even if you had an answer for why something is, without knowing the context at which it is why it is you will not know anything at all about it, just a collection of incomprehensible data. For example, asking "why is this a video": in what context is it a video? How do you define what a video is? How is a proper question, not why.
MuonRay 3 months ago
Two copper loops carrying electrical current are known to attract each other if the directions of the currents are the same. Ampere and Maxwell knew that in the 1800s. Ferromagnetism is similar, except that the "current" comes from electrons spinning around their axis (not really, but this is the closest that anyone can explain electron spin without invoking special relativity). So if electrons in the two magnets are aligned on an average, they attract, and if misaligned, repel.
philipralph 3 months ago
@philipralph To continue, this is a crappy explanation, as Feynman pointed out. Why do the copper loops attract? We don't know, but we can calculate exactly how much (electrical engg is based on this). Why do electrons have spin? Don't know. The answer depends on the level of detail you are prepared to go into.
philipralph 3 months ago
Lol!!!! Those people who are crying like little babies because they didn't get the answer they wanted to how magnets work have totally proved what Fynman is saying in this video. To have a correct wholistic understanding you need to look much deeper at the issues. Otherwise all you end up doing is giving names to phenomonon without saying what is actually happening.
qfeternal 3 months ago 4
Dodgy
stevenmtaylor21 3 months ago
thumbs up if you got here looking up "F**king magnets, how do they work?" Word to your interest in learning and not remaining a dumb ignorant superstitious morons like ICP.
Beastlyrich 3 months ago
Its a shame when someone so smart cant explain complex theories in simple terms. That is why Einstein is so famous because he could explain complex ideas in simple terms. E=MC2.
rgates1 4 months ago
And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed
oOoleveloOo 4 months ago
I bet it's entropic, ultimately
Tom45931 5 months ago
" fucking magnet how do they work and I don't want to talk to a scientist , yall motherfucker lying and getting me pissed" imagine the discussion this man and ICP would have.
myw67 5 months ago
feynman is awesome but i think he couldnt come up with a good explanation for magnets.
or one that he could present that would sound cool
oneadamtwelve86 5 months ago
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@939Socket Well actually he makes a good case. Explaining in relation to a non perfect analogy will ruin you at some point. As you associate with whatever analogy he's making. Best way to understand something is to make up a new picture (if you may).
So that when you try to think of it again you don't remember the rubberbands between the magnets, instead you're thinking of something else more fitting. So you then understand that the force gets weaker when you pull apart. Not stronger.
SnoweyMan111 5 months ago
@939Socket Well actually he makes a good case. Explaining in relation to a non perfect analogy will ruin you at some point. As you associate with whatever analogy he's making. Best way to understand something is to make up a new picture (if you may).
So that when you try to think of it again you don't remember the rubberbands between the magnets, instead you're thinking of something else more fitting. So you then understand that the force gets weaker when you pull apart. Not stronger.
SnoweyMan111 5 months ago
anti-matter its just ordinary matter going bacward in time. That will explain how we can never know the exact position of a electron, it migth be the same electron doing u turns bacwards and forwards in time. Dark matter and energy are diferent there is a theory that staes that dark matter is a form of matter but in a higher dimension, this supports the Big splat theory.
nicoeste8765 6 months ago
Fucking ice, how does it work?
Renegade30 6 months ago
@939Socket why is he a Fucktard? and what's a fucktard, exactly?
mangoismycat 6 months ago 3
Bizarrely the featured video next to this one was "Insane Clown Posse - Miracles" which is one of the most ignorant songs - I have ever had the misfortune to hear.
johncrwarner 7 months ago
damn he made me laugh :D
misestrelka 7 months ago
Someone send this to Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope
makisupa110 7 months ago
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asshole could have just answered the question instead of wasting the whole video spouting off his mental masturbation
StripedStang08 7 months ago
@StripedStang08 no, then you would be saying "why did he just say that there's no answer to the question? what an asshole". The whole video is an explanation of why he can't really answered, it is very insightful really.
dsanzo 7 months ago
fucking miracles
versanil 8 months ago
So much intelligence and clarity.
gintroubad 8 months ago
My magnets look just like daddy.
BeaveHolio 9 months ago
why is there arguing in these comments? cant we all just sit back and listen to the wise words of Feyman? One of the smartest men of all time
samsonisdope 9 months ago
@samsonisdope because we are trolololol
Th0usandMaster 9 months ago
The problem with half of you idiots is that you actualy expect an actual answer to the "why" question, infact your scared of not geting your answer typically the reason most of you idiots turn to faith is that your not okay with the idea of uncertainty you need to know how things work and that theres a reason for everything. Well the universe dosn't work that way you can either live in reality or in the fantasy world you idiots have created.If you don't like it go pray to your imaginary freinds.
MegaBEANER1000 9 months ago
@MegaBEANER1000: I thought science was based on certainty and measurements not unexplained phenomenon?
rgates1 4 months ago
brilliant answer
tvalerianopereira 9 months ago
haha..wtf was this ?? damn...just answer the question...!
lol
dopemcee 10 months ago
@dopemcee RofL? what do u mean just answer the question? you cant ask questions like this, the "why" questions never ends things do what they do because thats how it works in this universe, obviously the idiot reportet didnt even know what he really wanted he jumps from "why" to "how" in under a second, these are two very diffrent ideas. If i asked you abou apples then i switched the conversation to the habitat of zebras in africa youd look at me like I was crazy,but here you think its diffrent?
MegaBEANER1000 9 months ago
@dopemcee Hes smarter then that, he could have answered the question in about a billion different ways none of which the reporter would understand. So he saved the undereducated reporter the trouble of having to make sense of what he was told. Its like if a 2 year old asked you about calculus. Its hard to give an accurate description when the 2 year olds knows almost nothing. Its like a grass hopper pondering the question of his existence in this universe.
MegaBEANER1000 9 months ago
There is a limit to understand anything, we call that Limit a Law. Gravity is garbage after we discovered General relativity same with magnetic force and magnets., Feynman is only asserting the reality of nature, that our understanding is not correct so he says he doen't know. His great statement was "If you say I understand Quantum mechanics, then you don't understand it".
pingala10 10 months ago
It seems that he needs another line to answer that question...
nfexp 10 months ago
This mother fucker's lyin gettin me pissed
deadrisinglord 10 months ago
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deadrisinglord 10 months ago
Magnets. Can't explain that!
carbronica 10 months ago
That's what she said
optifluff 10 months ago
Are you sure he is a PHYSICIST? He sounds more like a POLITICIAN, who never answers the original question.
mc2NY 10 months ago
We must go deeper....
xMusicification 10 months ago 2
My definition of hell? You're late for a flight, and you pull your car over to ask a stranger on the sidewalk, "Which way is the airport?"-that stranger is Feynman. Haha!
LoveMattersMost 11 months ago 18
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What a douche
drgdrf 11 months ago
@drgdrf retard.
xMusicification 10 months ago
@ItsNotEvenSunny Do you not realize he just explained how magnetism works?
OrangeCyrano 11 months ago
@OrangeCyrano No, no he didn't.
profilescythe 10 months ago
the fact is how magnetism works is unknown. the same thing goes with gravity, we can prove it's there, but cant prove WHY it's there. we cant find any particles or energies that is interactively holding the gravity, read into the Large Hadron Collider. scientists are smashing particles are near light speads to break em open and are hoping to find a theorized "gravity particle"
maybe there are magnetic particles we haven't discovered yet. so simply put, we observe magnets working, but not how
ItsNotEvenSunny 11 months ago
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Summed up, we dont know shit, an modern science and atheism is turning into as much a religion as any its critisized.
The reality is we dont even have the beginning of the ability to form the questions to lead up to the beginnings of forming the questions we want to know.
I wish more atheists would start acting like REAL men / women of knowledge.
RedGrobo 1 year ago
@RedGrobo Your summary has little to do with the video. I suspect you either didn't watch it or you feel awfully insecure in your religious belief and take every opportunity to reinforce yourself with pseudo-intellectual bullshit.
Legit73Resurected 11 months ago
@Legit73Resurected
Thats very incorrect, i know my summary isnt all the video says, but it is covered, stop being an insecure fool yourself, so much so you need to type this rebuttle in an attempt to reinforce your beliefs, and a legitimate critique to them which was highlighted here.
Summed up we dont know shit, he said it plain as day many times.
RedGrobo 11 months ago
@RedGrobo What critique? You asserted that science and atheism are turning into religions and failed to supply evidence for your assertions. You clearly don't understand what science is or what it seeks to understand and you don't understand atheism or the difference between positions on knowledge and positions on belief. I'll say it again, pseudo-intellectual bullshit. If you want to change my mind, provide evidence for your assertions and learn what an assertion is.
Legit73Resurected 11 months ago
@RedGrobo Please, if you would like to discuss your comments, do it where they were made rather than my personal channel. If you are brave enough to make such ignorant hateful remarks in public, than you ought to be brave enough to defend them in the public arena. Otherwise, you can either keep your hate to yourself or admit your error and apologize for your unprovoked attack on millions of people that happen to be atheist.
Legit73Resurected 11 months ago
At the end of the video his expression says "now scram". :)
ContainmentFailure 1 year ago
How do magnets work?
Not even Feynman can say. Must be miracles.
m2m4m6m8 1 year ago
@m2m4m6m8 Actually he seems to suggest that beyond a certain point you have to use maths and physics to describe actions since they are outside of everyday comprehension. Ofc if you ask "What is the purpose of magnetic force?" then no answer can be given.
ContainmentFailure 1 year ago
He is simply using the device of the question to explain why it is important to build on knowledge and how learning deepens one's understanding.
That is why we tell children that the moon goes around the earth when we as intelligent adults know that this statement is false ... don't we?
Huttate1 1 year ago
he reminds me of the origional willy wonka...
BEHHHguesswho 1 year ago
so why does the magnet work?
BEHHHguesswho 1 year ago
How exactly does the posi-trac rear end on a Plymouth work!?
It just does.
mctweek 1 year ago
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this guy is a pretentious cockfag
lookitsagrape1 1 year ago
@lookitsagrape1
Would you have preferred he said it is due to spin-momentum alignment on a quantum level in the atoms?
Would it have helped any more?....
seriusly... don't say insults just because you cannot grasp the magnitude of other people's statements
REXVS 1 year ago 3
@REXVS a.) nice tantrum to show me how smart you are. b.) he could have just answered the fucking question instead of rambling on about the word choice of the guy who was interviewing him. he knew exactly what the interviewer meant when he was asking the question. c.) i'm not insulting him because i'm "incapable of grasping magnitude". i'm insulting him because i grasped that he's a jerk.
lookitsagrape1 1 year ago
@lookitsagrape1 You're a moron.
lurkgato 1 year ago
@lookitsagrape1 Don't misunderstand... its not a question of a tantrum or not.. It is specifically because of the poor choice of wording that the question became so hard to answer... (I'm assuming we're on the same page here where we both agree the interviewer asked for an explanation of magnetic forces) ...It is specifically because I assume that is what was understood that he tried to explain that the question cannot be answered without 3-4 years of physics and mathematics classes.
REXVS 1 year ago
@lookitsagrape1 Continuation of previous reply : in a way that it is simple and concise... If he is a prick in real life or not? Maybe...I frankly never met the man and you might be completely correct in calling him one... however... taking this video as a sign of him being one is unfunded and a misinterpretation of intention and reasoning.
REXVS 1 year ago
Feynman seems angry at the question. What's the deal? Answer it. Don't spend half the video talkin bout some fat fally bitch.
afriend90 1 year ago
Fucking magnets. 3 people are still wondering how they work!
DocBlasto 1 year ago
@raydredx an stupid question still has implications
katinkers 1 year ago
...fuckin' magnets... how do THEY work?
fivetonsofflax 1 year ago 4
The reason Feynman does not answer this interviewers question directly, it seems to me, is because he can tell that an answer he could give would not be appreciated by the interviewer. If you actually listen to the way the question is addressed, it is like the interviewer is saying "I want you to jump through a few hoops for me, just to see if your up to scratch"-the impression of someone who just wants science to be performed as a series of parlour tricks by people who dedicate their life to it
MuonRay 1 year ago
@MuonRay The reason he can't answer the question is because a 'why' question requires that the person asking the question allows something to be true as a framework; otherwise they will ask 'why' all over again no matter what your answer is. So a question 'why' these magnetic forces exist will not be satisfied because Feynman allows the existence of magnetic forces to be true as a base for his framework understanding of reality. Phenomena are explained by the framework of forces, not vice versa.
gtg309v 1 year ago
@MuonRay This.
sweatpants1212 3 months ago
Feynman didn't suffer fool or pretenders. He hated being made to feel as though because he is a Physicist, he has to inform the world of something we just have to accept (I.E magnetic fields).He could go on for hours bending your ear about magnetic forces & the reaction of atoms within iron ore, but as an interviewer that guy would be blown away!
"If you don't like it, go somewhere else!" is what Feyman should have said. The guy should be ashamed for even asking the question...
hulahoopfrootloop 1 year ago
magnets, how the fuck do they work?
someone had to
equallyeasilyfuqyou 1 year ago
@equallyeasilyfuqyou They SPECIFICALLY STATED that they did not want to talk to a scientist. They be lying and getting them pissed.
MrBeatdown 1 year ago
If you were one of his female students and he was talking like that, you'd probably just get undressed, bend over and spit on your own arse.
dipposh 1 year ago
Feynman : Is he OFF the Question? He appears to be not answering.
zakzikr 1 year ago
@zakzikr it reveals your inability to follow the stream of his reason that you think he was not answering the question.
fatmeteor 1 year ago
@zakzikr He's explaining why no answer is possible in terms suitable for the context. It was a profounder question than the interviewer knew, so he chose instead to explain just *how* profound.
lytrigian 1 year ago
Thats called intellectual ownage.
Master8laster 1 year ago
This motherfucka's lyin and getting me pissed
mobydick789 1 year ago
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fatmeteor 1 year ago
THAT was planet awesome.
iamkeir 1 year ago
This ought to shut the Juggalos and ICP up.
mudkipNDS 1 year ago 15
@mudkipNDS: Precisely the opposite!
We (and they) should be all the mored awed, which, isn't that what ICP's flop of a song was all about?
Hm.
wakod2002 5 months ago
Bwahaha this is so great. What an awesome response.
ThadenMidnight 1 year ago
physics pwned.
filmacher 1 year ago
Fucking magnets, how do... oh, okay.
Foggen 1 year ago 6
Fuckin magnets. How do they work?
makcheekan 1 year ago
Richard Feynman readied his leg up and kicked the arrogant ass. Watch again. He talked like a lord.
otivaeey 1 year ago
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Why? Thats easy. Because God made it that way so the universe would work properly. Whoa that was easy. It only gets hard when you eliminate God. Makes the answers of which came first, the chicken or egg a no brainer.
MahanaimCh 1 year ago
@MahanaimCh If all people thought like this then there would be no physics, no science and no modern technology for you to be saying this. It is the cognitive equivalent of surrendering; giving up. You are right that the issue becomes a no-brainer when you ascribe it all to God - you are completely removing THINKING from the process and thus the brain really isn't involved.
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@MahanaimCh That's a straw man argument, son.
invisiblebike 1 year ago
@MahanaimCh
Haha, you're such a moron. I hope you're joking.
paintbalesf 1 year ago
@MahanaimCh when where you allowed out of the swat valley? or are you still there and managed to plunder a laptop from a westerner?
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yawn @ the comments, what a bunch of pseudo-intellectual yes-men. The only comment I saw of value to me was:
Now I know how fucking magnets work.
nice.
reckless2k 1 year ago
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yawn @ the comments, what a bunch of pseudo-intellectual yes-men. The only comment I saw of value to me was:
Now I know how fucking magnets work.
nice.
reckless2k 1 year ago
There's a few people who can get away with this tone of reply; namely experts. You better prove you know what you are talking about though, otherwise it just sounds arrogant or angry at the person you are taking to. In Professor Feynman's case, obviously he can pull it off...
macsm 1 year ago
Richard Feynman kicks ass.
NAARandom 1 year ago
I am surprised Feynman could'nt answer this with more logic- what he is saying is true( most ''why'' questions are not really questions, true, and indeed those ''why'' questions asked that are truly questions form infinite regressions of smaller questions- that ITSELF is a branch of mathematics; i.e group theory and allows the most complex theories ever conceieved- M-theory for example, to form predictions at all) but I think he should have just said ''the momentum of exchanged photons''.
SpecterReflector 1 year ago
She broke her hip because of Miracles!
Style386 1 year ago
Richard Feynman on the ta'wil of science.
warboner 1 year ago
Now I know how fucking magnets work.
h4kesi 1 year ago 27
@h4kesi The problem with people like you is your ignorant and un accepting you don't look at what hes saying for value of his words rather at the differnce in oppinion and because he seems diffrent to you, you think its justifyable to throw in a couple cuss words and repeat an ignorant question that was also said by the reporter, and the sad reality of western society is that many tend to agree apon this sense of ignorance as we can see.. you have 17 thumbs up.
MegaBEANER1000 9 months ago
@MegaBEANER1000
How about you shut up and don't take every youtube comment seriously ? I made a joke 9 months ago and you type some shit about difference in opinions. I liked his elaborate explanation and made a witty short comment and you judge the entire humanity on it.
h4kesi 9 months ago
@h4kesi You think restateing a question and adding the word "fuck" into it is a joke?
MegaBEANER1000 9 months ago
@MegaBEANER1000
I found it amusing, if not funny but I suspect you missed the reference.
Look at Insane Clown Possey's "Miracles" video.
There is a line "Fucking magnets! How to they work?"
To me, it is about happily ignorant people reveling in their own ignorance. But I don't think that was their intention.
gotohell114 9 months ago
@h4kesi how about you shut the fuck up already.
baconology 9 months ago
Longest " F**k you " I've ever seen...
pepomk123 1 year ago 70
@pepomk123 Except no, its not a "F**k you!" It's the opposite of that! It's a "F**k me!" A "F**k us!" It's about distinguishing the questions that can possibly be answered from the questions that can not be. "Why" questions can't be answered, because knowledge ultimately depends on observation! If we keep asking "why," as Feynman demonstrates, then at the end of the day we still don't know "why" things are happening, we can only say THAT they are happening. It's about accepting one's mortality!
sweatpants1212 9 months ago 21
@sweatpants1212 nice,,,
pepomk123 9 months ago
@sweatpants1212 cool story bro! xD
KWOOTfluke 9 months ago
@sweatpants1212 just because all 'why' questions can't be answered certainly shouldn't mean that we can't answer some of them. Seems like a rather illogical argument to me.
morningstomper123 3 months ago
@morningstomper123 Absolutely agree. I mean to say: Why is phenomenon A happening? Because phenom B is happening. To some people, that may beg the (legitimate) question, "Why is phenomenon B happening?" Hence, the "why" question becomes an infinite pursuit, and it's only the ULTIMATE "why?" which can't be answered.
"Why?" remains. But in the meantime, we ARE answering WHAT is happening in each step, and our knowledge of WHAT happens grows. That's the perspective of science. That's its domain.
sweatpants1212 3 months ago
@sweatpants1212 Well I agree with that.
morningstomper123 3 months ago
@pepomk123 ...(cont.) It's the humility of a fine scientist.
sweatpants1212 9 months ago 3
around 1:40 i started laughing, this is hilarious, like seriously fucking funny
jangofet555 1 year ago
"How do magnetized (OK, magnetised) metals produce the forces that I detect when I bring them close together?"
OrganCat 1 year ago
JUST EXPLAIN IT LIKE YOU WOULD TO YOUR EQUAL. WHAT A DOUCHEBAG.
drgdrf 1 year ago
@drgdrf You, as he, have no equal.
prhughes0 1 year ago
@prhughes0 Your english makes dead kittens cringe.
drgdrf 1 year ago
@drgdrf Poetic license. Sorry, kittens.
prhughes0 1 year ago
@prhughes0 What?
drgdrf 1 year ago
@drgdrf Consult the kittens.
prhughes0 1 year ago
@prhughes0 Go fuck yourself.
drgdrf 1 year ago
@drgdrf He did, it's called Quantum Electrodynamics; he explained it for the entire world to understand. It's why he's famous. You can find it in a book; it really doesn't fit into a 4 minute video.
fukkkkka 10 months ago
Feynman not explaining something is more interesting than someone else explaining it.
fukkkkka 1 year ago 3
@fukkkkka that is exactly the response i was going to write up until i saw yours, well done i think your response is very clever and best describes someone so esoteric as the great Richard Freynman, in both a very deep and hard to understand manor yet at coincidently so very easy to understand. im doing medicine and hopefully someday ill get there but the more i listen to RF the more i want to understand quantum mechanics. once again well done a very clever comment.
atourdeforce 1 year ago
A magnetic field is created by a moving electric field. In a nonmagnetic object, electrons are all spinning in different directions and the magnetic fields cancel out. In magnets, electrons are all spinning in the same direction so that the magnetic fields interact constructively and amplify. Why these fields and forces exist is a complicated topic that is difficult to explain to an individual who lacks a solid background in physics. There are entire courses on this subject.
njb444 1 year ago
@njb444 But you are missing the point, what you have just reeled off has opened up at least another 20 questions that require answers. That's what Faynman was getting at. How deep down the rabbit do you need to go until you're satisfied?
ChuckBleedinNorris 1 year ago
@ChuckBleedinNorris
njb444 basically answered the question of why magnets are special compared to non-magnetic matter, as did Feynman. Neither answered the question about attraction versus repulsion, which is what Feynman meant about explaining something in terms of something you are already familiar with.
lcs1956 1 year ago
I had a friend like this once. I didn't have enough years on this planet to maintain a relationship with her and have a life too. Is Richard married by any chance?
actionpackedmax 1 year ago
@actionpackedmax
not any more - he died in 1988. but he was married... and he had two kids (one of whom is involved in some aspect of scientific work - no surprise, eh).
psychobollox 1 year ago
@psychobollox
Dude I didn't write that what the heck. Someone has hacked my account.
actionpackedmax 1 year ago
@actionpackedmax
weird...
hope you find the fuckers and cut their nuts off.
psychobollox 1 year ago
@actionpackedmax
Dude this isn't me who's using my account?
actionpackedmax 1 year ago
motherfuckin' magnets - how do they work?
domdab99 1 year ago 7
'pure awesome in a bag' is the best comment on this page. that's youtube comments for you. :)
jonathanomgitsme 1 year ago
i bet when richard was a little kid, his dad asked him
"Why did you take a cookie from the cookie jar when i told you not to?"
then richard got all philosophical on his ass =D
TheCrocoduck 2 years ago 4
@sam52160
So you completely missed what he meant lol. Do you think that by shifting the phenomenon from the magnet to the atoms in the magnet you somehow answer the why?
enotdetcelfer 2 years ago 2
I gotta disagree, sam52160.
For the first several minutes, I felt like Feynman should have simply said something about atom alignment or even gone with a simple, "I don't know -- no one does."
However, I think I finally got his point. Had he simply said that the atoms "line up" which "makes a field," then the answer would have been nearly as vacuous as the question.
Ah, but such is science... and I think THAT was the message he got across (at the expense of explaining magnets, of course).
TheHogTieChamp 2 years ago
I have never taken any physics class, but all of this made perfect sense to me, including his thought process on the difficulty of answering 'why' questions. This guy is great.
swcaitlin18 2 years ago 7
Feynman isn't trying to patronise or insult anyone here. He's showing the depth of his intellect; he's actually trying to define the 'why' question. That's the root of Physics, all science really (and dare I say religion). Incredible guy (great bongo player too!!).
shredjoe1 2 years ago 7
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Why couldn`t he have just explained it in his own words?
What sort of audience is he expecting?
He is insulting our intellect a little here.
AClarke2007 2 years ago
@AClarke2007 This was originally made for Television. Understand why he may pander to the layman?
Mattprole 2 years ago 2
He's insulting your knowledge. He assumes that the majority of the audience he's speaking to doesn't know the nuances of physics. Which is a correct assumption. A physicist will be reading his studies and books, the layman will be watching an interview of him trying to explain certain things simply.
JayceMJ 2 years ago 4
lol he explained it perfectly, why does a person fall in love? you just do..
2012DarkKnight 2 years ago
Trust me bro, here is your answer. There is a complicated force than the EM, perhaps a manifestation of something known, associated with living things. This force induces a desire for existence and multiply, ultimately creating all sorts of troubles and happiness of life. Love is a process this force does it's action trough allowing for reproduction. That is why most people fall in love during the ages when they can reproduce. Greed, sympathy etc, which exist in all living things, are others.
ramsay11111 2 years ago
The common reality in the universe: X theory completed 0 + 1 * infinity * infinity / infinity
(God) (Sound) (Frequency) (life) (Perspective) This is my conclusion , in my book the real truth of the universe. This verifies Einstein's field of theory and well as Aristotle, If your familiar with all the theorys it will be obvious, if your not, won't care anyway, I will try to unite all the theoretical laws and show a conclusion that explains the universe logic.
Bret V
2012DarkKnight 2 years ago
ahh i wish he had gone into more depth, i have been learning heavily about the electrostatics, electrodynamics and magnetism this semester and it would have been great if he had talked more about it
jimmyshitbags 2 years ago 2
i believe that people such as fyneman and einstein and many others who are extremely interested in the physical world should have a longer life span, and those who chose to "LEAD" the world, should simply die
ramtinking 2 years ago 5
People take classes on magnetism and other related sciences. I think Richard Feynman believes that the field deserves more respect than he can answer in a 7 min response to such a general, and unintelligent, question. I would agree with him and i completely understand this.
Siradon 2 years ago 39
@Siradon Feynmann himself said it was an excellent reasonable question and you said it was a general and unnintelligent. Can an excellent question be unninteligent?
raydredX 1 year ago
@raydredX Same way a fat chic can be good in bed....
It's unintelligent because it is placed with little understanding of it's depth and meaning...
Yet it is significant (Excellent) because it is one of the greatest questions studied by quantum mechanics...
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