Richard Feynman - Law of Gravitation - Part 2

[DexterHaven49]

His lectures are boing and disappointing. He looks at his notes too often and gives too many asides about what his topic is and is not, rather than just focusing on it. F. Lee Bailey has a good video up on YouTube now on how to give a speech that I wish Feynman could have seen years ago. Memorize the damn speech This is not even complicated. In some speeches he has to check his notes after every two sentences. He didn't know how to prepare.

[TheKturner05]

@DexterHaven49 I thoroughly enjoy his lectures, as well as his side bars. All people are different and will take to things differently, too think there is a "correct" way that all people think is "better" is an asenine thought.

[DexterHaven49]

@TheKturner05 The class agreed with me and attendance fell off continuously. To think his lecture style could not be improved upon is the "asinine" thought. You spelled it wrong too.

[TheKturner05]

@DexterHaven49 good job putting words in my mouth. I will not respond to your comment because you would probably fail to understand my meaning. perhaps you should read my last comment again.

[DexterHaven49]

@TheKturner05 I will not dignify your last comment with a reply. ;)

[originxxx]

Awesome! every time I watch this! My favourite is the fun to imagine one about waves though! class..

[theOGslagster127]

i believe in god

he way clever than you silly sciencers.

not in blacknwhite niver.

plus wen he maid the hevuns he maid thing ezy unnerstan - like:

u ten fikngers so he give ten things - just do them and he look after what left

but u just re-complikate shiv wi u igno-rants an shivvy in-jokes an chork bords.

[conasfl]

Search google or bing for "project tuva" go to the microsoft website.. the videos are in higher definition... and enjoy :)

[originxxx]

@perioendo ...thats's the word "anthropomorphic". @eddiegoregor haha ...surely science is mearly the enquiry. what society does with that new knowledge is their doing or undoing. As for common sense ive never really got on with that notion which is banded by those too fearful to stand out and say "I am not afraid to say different". A takes a brave person to step outside convention and a bold one to stay put where time will not allow!

[perioendo]

1.35+ He is saying that the human mind merely discovers/describes Laws the real marvel is that nature has already invented/abides by them. He is being anthropomorphic.

[TedDGPoulos]

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[boriszhelev]

"my main concentration will not be on how clever we are to have found it all out [law of gravitation], but on how clever she is [nature] to pay attention to it" :))

[pyrrho314]

he is so top notch, in his time it was not common to recognize the ancient greeks had a helio centric universe... he rocks.

[originxxx]

...omitting the human mind and it's imposed ideas on nature and the "LAWS" of physics as though they are rules which must be followed and are firstly required to be observed for this to be possible ...I suppose i got the joke eventually! Mother nature herself being like the cartoon character who walks off a cliff and only when she looks down obeys the law of gravity. lol Feynman you're a funny man. Wish I could have met you, allbeit in the form I find myself now.

[originxxx]

personifying nature is fair enough. I watched the clip again this morning and now see the humour in his satire. whereby he is comically comparing the relationship between his intelligent willful female mother nature and the laws of gravity which must be obeyed! This is made funny it seems by...

[originxxx]

what does Feynman mean when he says (at 1:35+) "how clever she is to pay attention to it"?

[carlosjerez23]

He is personifying nature as female.

[onix45]

he means how clever nature is to pay attention to the law of gravity and always obey it.

[mccote]

Hes saying its more interesting that nature DOES work this way, than it is that we have figured out THAT nature works this way.

[naiku]

i believe instead of us noticing gravitation, but rather how mother nature pays attention to it. thats the 'she' in his analogy.

[pyrrho314]

@originxxx : nature is a female, and it's astounding she "agrees" to be so elegant.

[EddieGoregor]

@originxxx How old are you? Do you mind me asking?

[originxxx]

@EddieGoregor, to be honest i'm not sure. Genetically very old I guess. Intellectually im still a baby. What does it matter? I just loved that statement by R.F. as it again brings man or woman back down to earth and along with them "their" personifications also. When my nine year old daughter asked her teacher will they be learning about evolution along side all the religious ideas of our origins the teacher told her point blank "No" What does this have to do with R.F's statement?

[originxxx]

@EddieGoregor This very tendency to personify nature into a divinty, which is simply an egotistic projection has denied my daughter the empirical facts which she first set out to discover. This guy's satire is the Puppies Privates!

[EddieGoregor]

@originxxx Hehe you are in way too deep dude/dudette. Since you won't answer direct I'll just assume mental blinders are on. It steams out of your reply anyway to me. You must be religious too. Although that doesn't absolve science from doing just as much damage to common sense. Sad to say...sometimes the scientific damage to social sense is far worse that religious damage, sometimes.

[perioendo]

@originxxx

[theantiantichrist]

@originxxx It's a joke.

[honeymonster147]

@originxxx hes saying that its more amazing that the rule of gravitation is followed perfectly rather than sloppily or with noise than it is that we can identify it

[niewasko]

@originxxx not nature but gravity I think

[JuanVoyce]

Where is the rest of this?  I want my money back.

[carlosjerez23]

lol. I cannot upload. Otherwise you tube will close my account.

[astrokits]

This is the best explaination of Gravitation law!!!Loved it!Thanks!

[racastilho]

I think there was a part 3, where Feynman talks about a possible mechanism of gravity: space creating particles that fly in all directions and push objects towards each other. The more massive the bodies, the more particles would colide against them, resulting in a greater force. And the greater the space between them, more particles in opposite directions would tend to cancel out the forces. This makes perfect sense except that this theory leads to a unreal consquence which I cant remeber!

[Metalloys]

@racastilho the unreal consequence is that these particles would impart impact on Earth's movement in its orbit.

[carlosjerez23]

I will add part 3

[racastilho]

Excellent! Thanks!

[Aletheophile]

@racastilho That is in "The Relation of Physics and Mathematics Part 1"

[racastilho]

@Aletheophile Wow, thanks a lot, I spent some hours searching for this!

[zapopaul]

@racastilho @racastilho if there were such particles they would be moving in all directions, as not all planets are in a single plane but are all subject to the law of gravity.. such particles would also generate a considerable force, in the direction of the movement of the earth around the sun, and would slow down the earth. that obviously does not happen, since even in ancient times a year was roughly the same.(the lecture is about 50 minutes in total)

[RachmaninoffGuy]

Hey buddy, great uploads! What happened to part3?

[machaeroguy]

Great upload. Thx very much :)

[dirac17]

First comment! Feynman inspired me to study physics and makes for a great role model. Feynman ftw!!!

[03Kabbotta11]

Quite ironic : )

Since Feynman was inspired by Dirac.

Richard is one of my interests as well.