Legendary Physicist and Florida State Professor Paul Dirac

[nanotektor]

Dirac was the real "Sheldon Cooper"

[spurakos000]

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac..The man who turned his thoughts into equations <3

[tonyrosam]

very interested to see if anyone from FSU can find video lectures of his classes!

[EradicateTheDH]

North Florida reminded him of England? Damn. England must be a shit hole.

[cuntylishus]

North FL reminded him of England? :\

[slovakmath]

its sad that people like dirac and feynman arent as well known as einstein...IMO they contained, by leaps and bounds, far greater intelligence than Einstein. Dont get me wrong, I realize that the tensors in general relativity were an accomplishment, however he cant a candle next to the maths and physics required to understand QED and QM

[cawleym1]

@slovakmath What rot

[slovakmath]

@cawleym1 Stereotypical lay response. Lay comment by a lay person who knows nothing of physics besides that learned by the mass herd. Get back to me when you get a real education. Enjoy mediocrity

[cawleym1]

@slovakmath Slovakmath? You've actually put math in your name? Your reply made me laugh. What a staggering arrogant mathematical dickhead you are. In your unified field theory of intelligence you have done what no other has, you have managed to combine quantum mechanics with relativity and in so doing you have been able to rate the relative intelligence required to command each discipline. Ha Ha priceless!

[slovakmath]

@cawleym1 I find it hard to believe you really think that mathematicians dont have subjective & biased opinions. I think this really says a lot about your capacity of reason. I based my comment on personal experience & that shared by friends & colleagues (nearly all of which agree with me by the way). Go to the physics dept of your local university, ask the professors in the hallway (tell them its a school project) if they believe Einstein or Feynman the intellectual superior.

[cawleym1]

@slovakmath What’s curious about you is your need be insulting; I’ve seen your other comments. You have a need to do down other contributors. I’m not sure that you are sure about your own level of intelligence. Do you secretly think you are thick and need reassurance? I sense insecurity.

Your futile debate trying to measure, on some sort of abstract scale, the relative intelligence of Nobel prize recipients is amusing and with respect to you, very revealing. Go away.

[slovakmath]

@cawleym1 there is no abstract scale and nobel prizes have nothing to do with it reread my comments

[slovakmath]

@cawleym1 2) and how can you possibly say I insulted anyone? all i did was to ask you to go to the local university and ask the opinions of teh mathematicians and physicists who work there regarding this. I insulted nobody. I can only assume you are referring to "fntime" comment to me (obviously an adolescent who I wont bother to write). I havent been rude at all in any of my statements. All i said from the start is people like Feynman Witten Dirac etc deserve more credit from the lay masses

[fntime]

@slovakmath You sir, are a dog! A dog with fleas. You are not half as smart as you believe. And if that's true then, you are delusional! You are exposed as a poser. You don't even like science, you like being considered a 'scientist'. You are more like a 'mark' at the carnival. You are a chump who pretends his 'character' is the equal of great men. If you will accept your very apparent inadequcies, you'll remove a delusion, and might even be happy! You are a loser!

[slovakmath]

@fntime explain why you believe this is true

[slovakmath]

@cawleym1 Then while on campus go to the maths department and ask several of the professors their opinion whether Gauss or Einstein the intellectual superior. And then ask Witten / Einstein... I shall await your heartfelt letter begging me for fogiveness

[fntime]

@slovakmath Shut up assface! Your intelligence is extremely low!

I doubt you have an IQ of 90! I doubt you can even count to 90!

You paid your professors for a degree in cooking and now you think

you are the equal of intelligent people.

How about getting back to the kitchen and make us up some eggs

and beans!

You can eat the beans, so that you can fart. I bet your farts are more

interesting and elegant than YOU!

"Now go home and get your fuckin' shine box!"

[bmclaughlin01]

@fntime - Goodfellas :)

[stretch4859]

@slovakmath hi. i'm have been reading books on physics for the past years and find all this fascinating and just googled qed and didn't know that Feynman was considered one of the founding the fathers of qed. I shall have to read more about him. Thanks for posting that about qed.

[slovakmath]

@stretch4859 he was a fascinating man, i never got to meet him but many of my professors in school took classes from him. the stories they told were very funny. he was a very good teacher too. most people of his caliber insist on teaching graduate level courses. but feynman rather insisted on teaching freshman physics to undergrads

[bmclaughlin01]

@slovakmath - I'm sorry, you are wrong Slovakmath. No one can't doubt Einstein's contribution to Physics. Dirac, Feynman, Witten, etc have done amazing work but the IDEA of "general" relativity and of course the mathematics that followed is one of mankind's great achievements. You can reply with some sarcastic comment but that will only re-inforce your ignornance. Einstein, Dirac, Feynman and Witten are all giants.

[slovakmath]

@bmclaughlin01 sarcastic? I dont need to be and dont get mad, this is a simple discussion, no one is angry here. of course general relativity was a massive achievement, you missed my whole point

[shrodingersman]

He should have never been made to retire!!!!!!

[drrobertoboogie97]

Dirac was like George Washington of quantum physics, only more so.

[transiram]

dirac means the unit of " a word in hour" really funny but a great man more than any other mathematician

[x1x2x3ct]

strange that dirac left princeton for this second class university

[majestic93]

Does anyone know of any videos of Paul Dirac actually speaking? E.g a lecture alà 2:52-2:59?

I would love it anyone actually could PM (or something) a link. Also, everyone here should buy Graham Farmelo's excellent biography: The Strangest Man!

[onnelako]

just read The Strangest Man, I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested of his works and of his personality (definitely the strangest man:D

[antimatterXXXIII]

Dirac did not "overthrow the foundations of classical physics". This is just an idiotic thing to say, because in fact Dirac used the structure of classical physics as embodied in Hamiltonian dynamics and the idea of a Poisson bracket to construct the framework of quantum mechanics. The cultural appreciation of science is just abysmally bad, and one stupid thing after another is said in the attempt to dehumanize the people who do physics. Dirac was not a supercomputer. He was a man.

[dan020350]

2:32 is that Bush ? RIP Dirac

[SpecterReflector]

Diac was like Jesus, only he was real.

[EmmensII]

@SpecterReflector lol, jesus was real, whether you believe in god thats down to personal beleif.

[SpecterReflector]

I meant he was real in the sense of what he is remembered for is real- Jesus MAY have done the things he is supposed to have done, but all we have is word of mouth- the bible was not even written down in Jesus' time and was printed far beyond his existence. our records of what Dirac did may be inaccurate in some accounts but we remeber him for the Dirac equation,Dirac notation, Dirac delta function, ect. Jesus lived 2000 years ago, for all we know he could have been a woman.

[rahbwells]

@EmmensII Well actually Emmensil, there is strong evidence that Jesus was a mere creation story based on the Egyptian tradition of the creation. Please search the archives called the net, but be careful what you take as fact, always

[antimatterXXXIII]

@SpecterReflector That's just absolute bullshit. WTF does Dirac have to do with Jesus?

[smoyer60]

@antimatterXXXIII

I'm assuming that the fella who commented about Jesus' existence was pointing to the fact that Dirac was a well known atheist within the scientific community. He was also considered one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all-time. He was truly a pioneer in the field and the world, as far as academia is concerned, lost a true jewel when he died.

[smoyer60]

@smoyer60

The wikipedia page of Dirac contains an article on his religious views and it is very interesting. By the way, I am not posting this to incite a religious debate. I'm only stating a few facts

[nachiel6]

@SpecterReflector Yes, Dirac WAS real and Jesus IS real

[nanotektor]

@SpecterReflector You cannot asume/prove that Jesus did not exist. I'm a catholic (not a fundamentalist) and a scientist, and as a scientist I do believe that we must respect other's beliefs.

[redrum41987]

@nanotektor as a scientist, you should be skeptical of anything that doesnt have proof.

[ashmerino]

@nanotektor catholic scientist == bad scientist

[vaggo55]

Este señor descubriò las antipartìculas. Increìble!

[mccarthy155]

today is the first time i heard of this man...

wont be the last

[goodsirknight]

@mccarthy155 just started reading a biography on Dirac called The Strangest Man, i recommend it friend

[soulisland]

@goodsirknight Yea son! bought the book today after reading as much as I could on Iphone. Also "The quantum story" is good :)

[nickharvey7]

very nice video!!

[willgonow]

This man is unknown in his home town of Bristol,U.K. strange! great video.

[shahinarya]

I was in Bristol over the holidays visiting relatives. One day in a cab from the airport I was lucky to have a talkative driver who told me "everything there was to know about Bristol". He knew a lot but was terribly surprised when I told him about Paul Dirac. He had no clue what I was talking about. What a shame! Of course, this reminds me of my visit to Austria, back in the 80's, where o my pleasant surprise I noticed Erwin Schrodinger's picture on their money!! That was, I though, amazing :)

[LeMegasandwich]

@shahinarya nice comment!

[Pastorius124]

I know who he is willgonow!

Then again I studied Physics in Bristol and had to learn his stupid fucking notation

[willgonow]

is that a comment or a question, or r u just dumb :))

[Pastorius124]

clearly a comment you gonk, given that there are no questions in it

[willgonow]

wot quantum mechanics 2 hard 4 u ?

[PabloGomezR]

@Pastorius124 The fact that you couldn't understand his equations nor his notation only means you're mentally RETARDED, you MORON. Keep cleaning toilets and stay away from physics.

[desmcc01]

Hi one favorite past times was watching Cher sing on T.V. Classic :)

[raspberrybaggio]

3:00, he looks like Unlucky Alf! Ooh bugger!

[vanderbilt887]

Dirac has always been my favorite physicist together with Eintein. His contributions were truly inhuman.

[josetogan]

yes, Dirac was an alien.

[antimatterXXXIII]

@josetogan Well, he was an alien who liked to watch Cher on TV with his own TV set. Such comments are beyond stupid. Physicists are men like everyone else.

[antimatterXXXIII]

@vanderbilt887 No one would ever say such or moronic thing about Beethoven. Was the 9th symphony inhuman? How about the paintings of Picasso? Is the cathedral of Notre Dame inhuman? What about Hamlet? People feel like they can dehumanize physicists because they themselves are too stupid to balance the checkbook. Well it's bullshit!