Richard Feynman Numbers Part 2 of 2

[bytedildo]

How cool that he said that nothing is faster than light, but that is wrong :) Neutrons are faster than light, because they travel in hops through higher dimensions where light travels faster :)

[Overgrued]

@bytedildo NeutrINOs. Different animal.

[pyVlad]

@bytedildo No. This is one hypothesis to account for the data collected in a, at the moment, controversial study. There are many others, most of which include simple errors in measurement. In addition, we don't see superluminal neutrinos (assuming that's what you meant by neutrons) in other places, e.g. astronomical events that emit both neutrinos, which contradicts the findings of the study, and lends support to the experimental error hypotheses.

[JuanchoMan]

lol at thumbnail pic xD

[parkservices]

at the time of writing this there are less than 10k views on this video. how freaking sad

[panzarw]

So just a guess, there are limits: no faster than speed of light, no cooler than 0 K, and a galaxy compressed no smaller than to a size of an atom.

[petkragh]

I know this is obvious,but it never ceases to astound me how a scientist can sit at the desk and deduce the existence of a natural phenomenon before even going to the window to observe it!

[weavehole]

Would I be right in guessing that if you put a small piece of a neutron star on the surface of the earth it wouldn't so much fall through the surface as attract the Earth up and around it?

[Frutoses]

@weavehole True but he's just trying to expose how concentrated it is.

[KutuluMike]

@weavehole As far as gravity is concerned, those two statements mean the same thing. If he or she were being pedantic, a physicist would say that the Earth and the neutron mass are each simultaneously exerting an attractive force on the other, proportional to their mass, pulling the centers of the masses towards each other. If your mass of neutron degenerate matter was less than the mass of the Earth, it would feel a strong force down than the Earth would feel "up", and vice versa.

[weavehole]

@KutuluMike

I am nothing if not pedantic.

:)

(Definitely not a physicist though (obviously))

[Vejita12]

I wish I could thank him for making me realize that science, phisics is not dull and boring, but interesting and fucking awesome!!!

[slimnotskinnytexan]

A brilliant man and he looked like a very, very fun-loving and pleasant guy. What a gem he was.

[mixxmexx]

@slimnotskinnytexan and what a loss when he was no more

[alpha431]

How cool it would have been to have had this guy as a science teacher in school.

[Trisscarro]

@alpha431 it's even cooler that i have him as a private teacher on youtube.

[ThomasMartinoia]

Brilliant, inspiring.