what the hell did I just watch? Whatever it was, it makes the average American game show that I'm stuck watching - think: Steve Harvey mediating double-entendre-laden face-offs between a white family and a black family - look like utter shit.
I read Dirac's biography "The Strangest Man" about a month ago and was able to answer every question correctly based on solely that knowledge. This man has had a 30-40 year obsession with him and couldn't even answer questions which a single read of his biography would have answered. Poor effort.
@narby86 Same, and its pretty obvious that the man has no knowledge of physics at all, I was actually laughing at his last answer, Einstein disproving magnetic monopoles!
When I was a young man in Bristol I had a pair of second-hand trousers with "Dirac" stitched on the inside label in red thread. They would have been roughly waist 26", leg 33", with pleats, otherwise non-descript black suit trousers. I now wonder if they belonged to the great man.
actually his last answer, arguable, has some truth. Dirac's equations does, to a certain extent, prove the existance of monopoles under certain transformations.
I suppose I see your point about no aether, though, because the Dirac sea is not what Michelson/Morley were looking for, and what Michelson/Morley were looking for, i.e. an aether that the planet passes through (in orbit around the sun and the galaxy and the local cluster, etc.) and that (I guess) exerts a consequent opposing reaction upon light here but not upon matter here, is clearly not there.
You miss the point entirely. It is excellent that a non-scientist such as this gentleman answering questions on Mastermind should be so interested. Good for him. He is not claiming to reduce Dirac's life in any way. Rather the opposite I think.
@grayoracle - I think he was torn between answering quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.Hmm. Gee, did somebody reduce Dirac's life to ten questions? I must have missed that. You know this was a quiz show, right?
@ArcaneInquisitor There were three papers called "A New Classical Theory of Electrons" published in the early 50s. They postulated that the current in the vacuum was proportional to the electromagnetic potential, J = kA - so the vacuum became a sort of superconductor. Dirac's aim was always to fix the ambiguous features of QED by starting from a better classical theory of electromagnetism. The one we have is broken - there is no way to make a consistent theory of point charges.
I wonder what made him interested particularly in Dirac, as opposed to one of the many other theoretical physicists.
IlRezzonico 3 days ago
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Good, I like that you share this video, I wish success always Mastermind Paul Dirac
bundawartini 1 week ago
what the hell did I just watch? Whatever it was, it makes the average American game show that I'm stuck watching - think: Steve Harvey mediating double-entendre-laden face-offs between a white family and a black family - look like utter shit.
Deeraise 2 weeks ago
admire this incredibly interesting topic, and stop looking at the man's look you morons.
MrJasonrolfe 3 weeks ago
Call me shallow, but my lord is this guy ugly.
mahcuz 2 months ago
@mahcuz What the fuck is wrong with you? This isn't a fucking modelling contest.
S1CKDRIFT3R 2 months ago 7
@mahcuz ur shallow
QuantumChance 2 months ago 2
well done sir
makka45 3 months ago
Paul Dirac was one of the most brilliant men who have ever lived.
csmcmillion 4 months ago 3
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echelon2k8 4 months ago
@echelon2k8 to make average British citizens look cool.
empemitheos 4 months ago
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echelon2k8 4 months ago
@presentattempt Alas I think I gave them in to a cub-scout jumble sale sometime in the early 60s maybe. I wonder where they are now.
MisterSimnock 1 year ago
I read Dirac's biography "The Strangest Man" about a month ago and was able to answer every question correctly based on solely that knowledge. This man has had a 30-40 year obsession with him and couldn't even answer questions which a single read of his biography would have answered. Poor effort.
narby86 1 year ago
@narby86 Me too - LOL!
ProsperosCloset 1 year ago
@narby86 Same, and its pretty obvious that the man has no knowledge of physics at all, I was actually laughing at his last answer, Einstein disproving magnetic monopoles!
S1CKDRIFT3R 2 months ago 2
When I was a young man in Bristol I had a pair of second-hand trousers with "Dirac" stitched on the inside label in red thread. They would have been roughly waist 26", leg 33", with pleats, otherwise non-descript black suit trousers. I now wonder if they belonged to the great man.
MisterSimnock 1 year ago
@MisterSimnock do you still have these trousers? if you do i would be very interested to talk to you further.
presentattempt 1 year ago
actually his last answer, arguable, has some truth. Dirac's equations does, to a certain extent, prove the existance of monopoles under certain transformations.
SpecterReflector 1 year ago
Lol I just yelled Quantum Electro-Dynamics! w00t
EzraGoldstein 1 year ago
"what was the point of that last question"
Consider looking up "Dirac sea" on wikipedia.
I suppose I see your point about no aether, though, because the Dirac sea is not what Michelson/Morley were looking for, and what Michelson/Morley were looking for, i.e. an aether that the planet passes through (in orbit around the sun and the galaxy and the local cluster, etc.) and that (I guess) exerts a consequent opposing reaction upon light here but not upon matter here, is clearly not there.
CACBCCCU 1 year ago
lol. he forgot that dirac worked in QED? how can you know all these "dirax fax" and still forget this?!
this video is hilarious anyway. it's so ridiculous to have such a great man's life be reduced to a set of 10 irrelevant trivia questions!
grayoracle 1 year ago
@grayoracle
You miss the point entirely. It is excellent that a non-scientist such as this gentleman answering questions on Mastermind should be so interested. Good for him. He is not claiming to reduce Dirac's life in any way. Rather the opposite I think.
JuliusImperator 1 year ago
@grayoracle - I think he was torn between answering quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.Hmm. Gee, did somebody reduce Dirac's life to ten questions? I must have missed that. You know this was a quiz show, right?
purplepeoplepurple 1 year ago
this is really nice seeing! Poul Adrian Maurice Dirac is my great-grandfather. live in Denmark! so cinsider me a celebrety! just kidding!
SDirax 1 year ago
Still did damn good
ClamCrunchy 1 year ago
the aether does not exist, what was the point of that last question?
weweallthewayhome 1 year ago
@weweallthewayhome u mean there really is no "Aether"???.
myleftnutts 1 year ago
@weweallthewayhome Apparently dirac had a paper which seemed to indicate it did. This is the first I have heard of this so I need to go look into it.
ArcaneInquisitor 1 year ago
@ArcaneInquisitor There were three papers called "A New Classical Theory of Electrons" published in the early 50s. They postulated that the current in the vacuum was proportional to the electromagnetic potential, J = kA - so the vacuum became a sort of superconductor. Dirac's aim was always to fix the ambiguous features of QED by starting from a better classical theory of electromagnetism. The one we have is broken - there is no way to make a consistent theory of point charges.
antimatterXXXIII 1 year ago
cool
josetogan 2 years ago
well worth a watch, thanks !
willgonow 2 years ago
His favorite programs included watching Cher sing :). Classic.
desmcc01 2 years ago