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  • I just so love this man's mind!

  • He thought of all this at the dentist.

  • i love being in the future :D

  • 5:57 Why he looks so deeply in the camera when he said then we find mysterious.

  • Feynman goes to the dentist and is reminded of the most remarkable thing--the biggest change--in history.

  • Benjamin Franklin said in his autobiography that after he retires he "would like to spend his time in discussion and study with such wise and learned men that would have his company"

    I wish there was a bar or cafe somewhere full of people like Feynman and Tyson where you could just talk to them and pick their brain

  • @Mrsiepel Picking a brain is a disgusting saying, you've ruined my morning xD

  • @Carlos46751 because they are bonded through a chemical reaction, they don't need to touch to be attracted.

  • i have a question for feyman why does the fried egg gets stuck to the pan if the atoms are not touching!?

  • thats its some great weed!!!

  • This man's enthusiasm and imagination is so freaking contagious. I love it.

  • 38x greater than the strength of gravity. I remember that problem in plasmas :)

  • @treiberdan you mean 10^38 times

  • 7:54 sheldon cooper laugh....

  • @mvineetmenon

    I was so disappointed that you were right.

    uhg i hate that show.

  • @Got2flip don't be...that a trademark of geeks... :D

  • @mvineetmenon

    I was disappointed that the laugh, and thus disappointed that on the occasion i watch it. shows like that are made for people to be able to compare and say "well sheldon is a theorectical physicist, and he watches star trek, it must be ok for me to watch star trek." "sheldon compare made the same mistake as i did, I must not be as dumb as I thought"

    no, you really are as dumb as you thought. uhg.

  • It's only coppah!!

  • @Androly Get to the coppah!

  • i dont mean to be a dick sir, but i believe its spelled permAnent, if it was on any other video thats not about science i wouldnt but... you need to read more.

  • "But then you have to imagine what it is that's pushing with the finger, here's this little finger, is made out of little balls and atoms, and has got a bunch of atoms and I'm pushing, and there's a little space between those atoms, and this pushing is going through that space"

    Pran1zzle

    07/16/2011

    Children, I'm high as fuck!

    yeahhhh....

  • Feynman makes me glad to be a human, given the gift of being able to observe and participate our fascinating universe.

  • The electrons in copper are finite yet copper wire in generators do not lose their electrons, if they did then the atoms would be stripped and the nucleuses would all repel each other, no more copper. Generators can operate in vacuums so the electrons are not coming from the air. The electrons must be coming from some where else.

  • @Indygoguy

    They come from the permanent magnets in the generator.

  • @RoyalDragonusa how? How do the magnets create them, from what do they create them. You made a statement that has no meaning. You may as well have just said, "they just appear". If the electrons came from the magnets then the magnets would lose all their electrons over time. This doesn't happen. The electron stream only occurs when the magnets are moved. Not when the magnets are held still next to copper. Magnets have lines of magnetic fields around them, what are those fields made of?

  • @Indygoguy

    I have no idea. However, I do know that the perminant magnets do in fact lose strength over time. It is a shockingly long time, but it does occur.

  • @Indygoguy yikes! I never thought about that! I can understand that that wouldn't be a problem with AC, but now I'm wondering how the fook DC works...

  • @Indygoguy Oh, sheesh, yall! You really had me going for a second! The electrons stay in the copper and move around in a circuit. They don't come out of the magnet, and they don't leave the wire. When the circuit's broken, they just stop moving. I reckon putting a generator on a broken circuit would sort of "jumble" the electrons up and make them move around within the wire, but not as dramatically as if the circuit were closed.

  • @plmnbvcxz1234567890 No, the theory is there is a flow of electrons that move down the wire.

  • @Indygoguy in a circuit, down the wire in a circuit, so they never "fly off" the wire lol

  • Just finished reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Changed my life.. I'm now studying physics. 

  • Shit, I see what he's getting at. It's truly odd that electrostatic and electromagnetic forces are plainly observable to us in everyday life, when they alone represent such a fundamental feature of reality. Why the elbow-room there?...shit.

  • it is strange how Richard Feynman turned out to be so really really similar to me in personality and thoughts with such a different life. I just discovered him yesterday... You would'nt even pay attention to the possible validity of someone saying this on youtube, but i don't care i would just want to know if someone smile smile can can? BAZOOFKSOD!

  • I would like to believe that reincarnation is real, because if this guy reincarnated mankind would rise up to inconceivable level of existence in a few years. A great mind, born before his time.

  • Hi Christopher and everyone,

    I'm subtitling this video and I don't understand what he says on 3:09; he's talking about forces that we're used to, forces of direct action, and then he says, "But then you have to imagine what it is that's pushing with the finger.." (please correct me if I'm wrong) then he says two phrases about little atoms which I don't fully understant, until he says "and there's a little space between those atoms, and this pushing is going through that space". Anyone help? Pls

  • @coyotitotl Look at it this way... What's between a car and the road? Rubber? wrong. Road rules. What's between your hands and the steering wheel? Skin? wrong. Your driving skills. What's between the atoms of one object and another? Air? wrong. Particle physics.

  • this guy is suck a mindfuck lol

  • Captain Kirks nipples, I understand what he means about static charge and magnetism being the exception to the rule, never saw that before.

  • I only understood κ

  • Simply fantastic! A remarkable and inspiring man....could listen for hours, weeks aeons. Thanks

  • Why is a video of Selena Gomez in the suggestions?

  • @jimmy20100102 Because the 'proverbial they' don't want us to watch these kinds of videos. We may learn something useful, begin to question the world, which may ultimately lead to social unrest. By watching SelGomez, and other base things, we are drawn from education and lofty thoughts, dragged to the world WalMart where we spend our money on bad music and loads of other junk. To pay, one must work, amassing more junk, keeping the wheels of commerce rolling and society complacent.

  • I love how he has to explain the idea of an axiom to the interviewer

  • what happend to great scientists like feynman and jacob bronowski? using there position of great knowledge and understanding, using it in a sensitive respectful way.

    Unlike say richard dawkins bashing creationism and coming from a snobbish confrantional approach of complete certainty. i find feynmans way of not brow beating this stuff into are heads just telling his own opinion and nothing else.

  • @liverloop123 Watch Neil DeGrasse Tyson, he's similar to Sagan and Feynman. Also, lesser known but still just as powerful (at least for me), Leonard Mlodinow; he has a lot of great books. I also like Brian Greene.

  • @liverloop123 OH! I almost forgot Brian Cox. He's amazing too, he does a lot of documentaries with the BBC and he's a particle physicist at CERN.

  • @liverloop123 If you think Dawkins comes from a position of complete certainty, you haven't been paying attention. He promotes basic scientific principles like backing up claims with evidence. This is constructive advice that no reasonable person would disagree with. Don't make the mistake of mischaracterizing a great educator just because you don't like his tone.

  • @FuzzyWhisper Don't get me wrong i think dawkins is a great evolutionist sceintist.I read the greatest show on earth his latest book and think yes when he sticks to the facts it's great informative, but in some parts he gets on his high horse and bashes down any doubters out there which ruined the book for me and to be honest he does have arrogant tone of certainty which in some ways ruined that whole book for me and he should have stuck to the facts and let people make up there minds.

  • i'm pretty sure he could see the matrix

  • is an atom "solid" or is it like a light that can not pass through another beam of light. like energy that repels

  • @robertwc82

    Light can and always do pass through another "beam" of light. If you look at the light as a particle, then its called a photon, as you probably know, and photons are a class of particles called bozons, which one of the features is that two of those can occupy the same space unlike fermions, that cannot. Atom is made out of fermions - electrons, protons, neutrons, and although its 99.99..% empty space, because of enormous electric, reppeling force it seems solid as a whole.

  • Man you can tell he is doing what he loves. Thought experiments

  • i really enjoy watching his positiv and emphoric relationship towards physics.

    i study physics and its hard not to lose your interrest, struggling with learning, pressure, grades, test and bla...

  • 7:54 laughs like Sheldon!

  • @Ninjasuperk Sheldon laughs like him..

  • @nafativedec maybe sheldon based his laugh in Feynman:)

  • 30 or 8 or 40 Zeros hahah

  • Dawkins quoting someone: Science is interesting. If you don't like it, you can fuck off.

  • @mnagmobile1 man you're so ignorant. why dont u search his name to see what he contributed to physics.

    he said 38 - 40 zeroes. not 8.

  • @mnagmobile1 I think you just showed how dumb you actually are with a comment like that. shows exactly the type human being you are. quick to criticise. and it's because people like him why you enjoy you ipad or car... f-kn idiot.

  • @mnagmobile1 He's just trying to dumb it down for your benefit. Clearly, he has underestimated just how dumb you are.

  • thank yahweh for the bbc

  • I dont understand why the electrons in an element aren't attracted to the proton in the nucleus until the distance between them is zero? I understand that we use a wave function to determine the orbitals and energy levels that electrons are at, but why dont the electrons literally stick to the protons?

  • @drmorphine There is a force called the "Strong Nuclear Force" which is even STRONGER than the electromagnetic force, and in the same way gravity acts over "long" distances but is much weaker, the SNF acts over an even SMALLER distance, and yet is even stronger than the electromagnetic force. Related to this is a quantum principle which dictates that energy can only be released in certain "packets." With 90 chars left, to hugely oversimplify, this is considered the "zero" level.

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  • @drmorphine It is related to the quantum nature of tiny matter, the uncertainty principle, the exclusion principle and the conservation of energy. The electron is basically too bouncy and jittery ever to settle down next to the more docile nuclear particles; for one thing, it loses potential energy as it gets closer to the nucleus, which it can only do through gaining kinetic energy (speed) and thus flies off again. Try to Google "Why atoms don't collapse," I found some helpful sites that way.

  • @drmorphine One way of understanding it is by reference to the uncertainty principle. The principle states that that the position and speed of a particle cannot be simultaneously known with arbitrary precision. If the electron were to stick to a proton, you would know very precisely where it was (i.e., on top of the proton) and how fast it was moving (i.e., hardly moving at all). But the uncertainty principle prohibits such knowledge, which means that the electron can't stick to a proton.

  • @drmorphine Another way of understanding it is by reference to the electron's wave nature. The electron's wave has a definite, non-zero wavelength. In order to fit the electron's wave around the nucleus, the electron's orbit cannot have a circumference any smaller than the wavelength of its associated wave.

  • @drmorphine

    "why dont the electrons literally stick to the protons?"

    Normally there is not enough electrostatic potential energy to make this happen. But under certain circumstances, like immense gravity, this could occur, like in neutron stars.

  • anyone else read a little dustin hoffman into feynman when he is talking ? lol, i cant stop thinking it :) something about the way he talks.

    (he is great btw!)

  • All these Feynmann videos are great. For some reason his enthusiasm is totally infectious. A scientist and a raconteur.

  • what about our ancient brothers who build monumental dedications using the secrets of gravity and anti gravity?? maybe magnetricity dose have some logic with its suggestions of polar sensitive atoms.. only positive and negative much like a magnet...our intellectual exploration may have taking a wrong turn somewhere.. because its been prevalent since the practical congregation of man.....our ancestors knew very well about our universe and the wonders that are proportionate to our existence.

  • @profit33333

    hello, who are "our ancient brothers" you're talking about ?

  • @profit33333

    Lol you watch too many movies, man!

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  • @profit33333 wow. and ur watching something like this...i think u were searching for Ancient Aliens so try a history channel search, u may find it there

  • @profit33333 No.

  • @profit33333

    Neighbor, its less about trying to sound profound as it is to make the profound sound as easy to understand as you can. You try to sound profound, Feynman tries to explain the profound in simple terms. Thats the huge deifference.

  • Feynman has a depth of thought and intellect unmatched by anyone. He is obviously very charged up by his imagination.

  • To put things in perspective:

    There's more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in the whole oceans of the world!!

  • It's hard not to poke your chair while watching this.

  • Take into consideration that Richard Feynman was a pioneer of quantum physics. I can understand his need to simplify things to such an extent that it sounds as if he is beating around the topic. Think about explaining the idea of a derivatives to a child in kindergarten you would have to go to such extremes to explain the minute details surrounding the derivative that it would sound as if you were off track, and most children would get bored or distracted. I personally love this guy

  • Feynman for god.

  • @MemeMachine1

    down to earth man !

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  • i have always thought the question "why" was merely an abstract product of our intelligence and the manner in which our brains operate. it makes sense in terms of intelligent agency but outside that it does not apply.

    the universe does what it does as it has always done, just because we have a need for an explanation does not mean the universe is required to provide one.

    the best answer anyone can come up with, is a mind wants it to act that way, which is irrational and a non answer

  • My favorite person in the whole world...

  • he smoked a lot of weed

  • brilliant truelly intresting.

  • I hope at the end of my life, I will have at least a little bit of his comprehension and knowledge about us and the universe.

  • Mr. Feynman we all love you!

  • man he got so sidetracked in this one

  • he explains things so well its amazing

  • ChristopherJSykes Rocks !!!

  • RPF is my inspiration - he's so *cool* in all senses of the word - made me swap good techie career for physics/cosmology study - amazing guy.. thanks voor the vid

  • Thanks so much for making this video available to everyone

  • Feyman was probably one the most unique and genuine genious of our time.

  • I think as many people as possible should view this series of videos! My jaw dropped and stayed that way for this whole video!

  • Feynman would have loved to identify, understand and apply the underlying law of nature.

  • @ltbird, hahahaha

  • I had to laugh...

    "It's so enormous, that if I were all electrons..."

    And then he immediately acts like, "Nah, that's stupid," and goes on to something else.

  • @lytrigian thats because the number he was thinking of was still too big to be understood!

  • @lytrigian I like that part too, and if you listen closely, his mumbled excuse is "...the numbers are too big..." which means that, as ridiculous as the idea of "if I were all electrons" is, he thought it through very quickly and very thoroughly and decided that it was better left alone.

  • @lytrigian Because the result would likely be a little too dark for his discussion - the pluses of the chair, and the other person in the room, would immediately rip outward toward Feynman, where the huge negative charge pile was. The electrons would likewise repel away from Feynman at ridiculous speeds. Result? Everything close by would quite instantly be ripped apart at the microscopic level.

  • @lytrigian Nope, he said "Nah, the numbers are too big". I wonder what was his idea!

  • @MrAndymarkus Feynman would answer that it would take a VERY fine intellect to design a fine intellect.

    He did not beleive in god.

  • Yep, there is a big man in the sky playing a really big game of The Sims.

    I'm just glad I know how to get out of a pool without a ladder.

  • It's tragic we don't have people like Feynman around anymore. The job of making physics interesting for the general population is left in the hands of retarded dumbfucks like Michio Kaku, who does nothing but getting cocaine-high on the publicity of lies, ridiculous exaggerations and incoherent, self-contradicting technological fantasies, to the point of delusions of grandeur. If only someone in the field would speak out about this, the coming generation takes him seriously because of his Ph.D.

  • I enjoy watching his publications, though I'd never heard he had such a bad reputation as you suggest. I'll do some research and tell others about what I find.

    Always good to fact check. Thanks for the warning.

  • i dont think michio kaku is a dumbfuck ..he just has a different set of metaphores

  • Bravo Mr. Feynman, bravo!

  • i love the way he explains everything. it keeps me paying attention from beginning to end. his genius was phenomenal. i wish he was still alive so that i could pick his brain. There so many questions i would ask

  • What does God have to do with any of the truth that he is so eloquently describing? Just appreciate the beauty of the truth for what it is.

  • holy shit. how smart was this guy. did he believe in god? i don,t know but im thinking no. i hope not or my thinking is wrong. help anyone?

  • He was brilliant, and did not believe in god.

  • @userwl2850 And if I answer "Yes he was smart and yes he believed in God".. how smart does that make you ? He is not talking about God. God is boring.

  • No he didnt believe in God!!!!

    He said so himself, somewhere in this interview (or in another interview io dont remember)

  • who cares

    scientists are secular ...wich means they dont mix religion in their studies ..

    christian, atheist, deist, buddhist, polytheist ..

    i dont care as long as they stay secular..

    belief in god or atheist doesnt make u smart of dumb , shoving it down people's throats when it doesnt contain common sense does...

  • Categorically not: "t doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."

  • He was an atheist and there's a video here on youtube explaining the reasoning behind his views. It's called "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out," but the guy didn't title it that (I think) so it's a bit hard to find. Can't remember what part it is. Look for it, it's really interesting. Basically a biography of his life.

  • my best guess is he was either agnostic, deist or atheist ....

    his idea of "god" wasnt anything close to the crappy modern idea of god ..

    at best i think he was a deist .... god isnt a being , god isnt a creator

    to me god is just an idea ...and dependant on what god ....its either a cute idea, a cute metaphor , or a stupid piece of %^$^..

    to me "god" is nothing more than a metaphor for kindness ...god doesnt exist ..its illogical to think a personal god would exist.

  • I've often used "god" and "science" interchangeably. What else but science can be a creator of all things? What else determines our actions indefinitely in an omnipresent way?

    It really removes the personality effect of theism on the idea of a god while still satisfying the question of where everything came from and why things have happened. This argument, I've found, makes theists very happy.

    I'm atheist, for the record.

  • yes but that wont make them stop thinking of god as a person ...

    god is just a figure of speech ....some ppl dont get it ..they think its a person

  • @RexFromDefgab Well, it ain't science, that's for damn sure. Science is only a model. It determines nothing.

  • science is a human study, no thing exists because of interpretation or use, as we humans have it, things are and will ever be what they are, we go our way through to understand to some limit but that limit does not exist, it's out of human logic.

  • @metalmusi How do you know there is not a limit? There is a perfectly reasonable scenario in which we can explain how everything happens and can be described by mathematical formulas.

  • Well, first of al it is not something that I know because it is not measured by knowledge, then logic loops when it focus on infinity, and by logic there might not be an answer, then going to a limit would be absurd at the same time it seems that it might not be.....

  • Electrons take about 62 years to travel one foot of copper wire though!

  • They don't need to travel to do what he is saying about, just resonate and pass on an effect to the end, which as you probably know happens very quickly!

  • How d'you know this? Is that really true? If so that is fascinating!

  • This guy was just a fucking badass.

  • My father and this gentleman, Feynman would have communicated extensively had they known eachother.

  • Why does Feynman always look and sound like he's stoned?

  • @Neuroelectronic At this point he's fighting cancer...

  • @Neuroelectronic Because he's happy.

  • @Neuroelectronic

    Maybe he was.

  • all these wheels turn, do they all move in the same direction? and and if one doesn't does it slow the whole prosses down?

  • Any book with his name on it is worth a read.

    Some require a bit more head-scratching though . . . . .

  • Spooky action at a disance

  • Feynman has the best metaphors!.

  • Read his book, Surely your joking Mr. Feynman, its a life changer...For the better!

  • Can you tell me the name of the book?

  • That's the title. It's called "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

  • Because gay people are known for not using "you're" correctly....

  • I'm known for using your mom.

  • @Polybun You making a coaster out of her ashes?

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HA. Good comment.

  • Also , 'What do you care what other people think'

  • science is FUN!

  • @Unloadedx5

    Indeed, science is the best!

  • @spartacandream Woooo! i got highest rated comment. This has always been my dream. I didn't even know till you commented. thanks man

  • you don't have to imagine how he explains it

  • wow this guy is interesting, made the minutes fly by!

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  • If only he taught Physics at my university, I think I would have gotten better than a C average! :)

  • Had a smile on my face the whole way through, Its imposible not to smile when listening to feynmans explanations.

  • @Ogaitnas900 No joke I have a huge fucking grin on my face every time I watch one of these videos. He is just so enthusiastic about it!

  • I love Feynman's explanations.

  • Awesome upload .

    This is what Youtube is for !!!

  • he said the same sort of thing about forces and distance in the magnet video. i wish i could've had him as a teacher. he makes it so easy to understand.

  • Wonderful video

  • My first book of his I read was his autobiographical "Surely you must be Joking, Mr. Feynman" Wonderful. Hilarious. I sincerely, recommend it to anyone who finds this interesting.

  • "Spooky behavior at a distance" - Einstein

  • He's right.

  • thanks! i hope to hunt down the actual thing this is from

  • action at a distance ?