Richard Feynman QED Lecture 2, Reflection and Transmission : 1/7

[x3llence]

i would give 500 to 1000 bucks to buy the full lecture series in HD,

[CamiloSanchez1979]

Did he have cancer by the time he did this?

[MuonRay]

@CamiloSanchez1979 He developed 2 rare forms of cancer in the late 1980's, around 1987 I believe and died shortly after; definately before I was born; a tremendous loss to the scientific community. However his massive contrabutions to science have allowed him to become probably the most celebrated scientist of the 20th Century, after Einstein, in that he was pretty much in every form of physics research; The path Integral and Feynman-Kac theorem, the Feynman-Hellmann theorem, ect.

[MuonRay]

@CamiloSanchez1979 His last recorded words were "I'd hate to die twice. Its so boring" which is very appropriate as he was like the candle that burned twice as bright but for half as long; or in QED terms the propogator that acts half as long but couples twice as strongly.

[emily7022]

thank you! i can't wait for part 3 and 4. 

[kjrunia]

Thank you so much for putting this up! What better way to spend another rainy Saturday (I live in the Netherlands, where summer can feel like fall)?

[MuonRay]

@kjrunia I will upload part 3 this week and part 4 which will be the complete series. any other richard feynman videos of relavance I will put up aswell. I would be interested in putting up slides on Quantum Field Theory awell, if I have the time before term starts again.

[kjrunia]

@MuonRay Truly awesome!

[cormisterio]

@kjrunia haha, i share the same idea (and the same place of living).

@MuonRay Thanks for the video!