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  • Feynman's a quarky guy.

    Feynman's got a great personality with a lot of quarks.

    hardy har har har

    these jokes are just a shot in the QUARK

  • I want this video on my S330 unit.

  • I love that he predicted the "historical" element of physics here, since now we have reasons to believe that the Laws weren't always the way they are now.

  • This video went viral on Muscat

  • We would all be thinking beyond what his thinking was, if we weren't so distracted.

  • 4:54

    

  • at 4:00 - I thought that the problem with the circles on circles was because the scientists at that time, until Galileo, took the earth as the centre, and not because they thought of circles rather than ellipses.

  • I don't understand all this lip service for this guy. He's not a bullshitter. He tries to be as simple as possible. Overall: I like him.

    I wish we could've hung out. I'd buy him a beer and talk and laugh with him about the strange nature of stuff. Atoms and shit: its all crazy; let's have a laugh and talk about this.

  • Omg he said "lightyears old" noooooooo

  • @MadaxeMunkeee : i was scared too :D

  • @MadaxeMunkeee I m pretty sure he still knew a lot more about light than you ;-)

  • The laws of physics might have evolved? Mind=blown

  • Holy hell, it's Fred Hoyle

  • I love his childlike enthousiasm

  • this fyman guy needs to chill out, have some weed, and not talk so loudly.

  • @Streety101101 Maybe you need to lay off the weed, you can't even spell Feynman. He was brilliant and you would have him dumbed down on dope, not that I have a problem with doobie because I don't. I just really love Feynman and he talks "loudly" because he's excited about the nature of things. Don't you get excited about reality and what it really is or are you too busy zoning out on the lava lamp ?

  • @TheDouchesupreme weed dosent make you dumb, thats a conspiracy. there is not one single shred of evedance to surgest weed has any negitive health effects. u sir need to watch that anti-weed talk or ur gonna get us all killed. and whn da f*ck did evry 1 al of a sudden becum a grammer nazi???????? or is grammer part of the war on terroisum? of sh*t my bad spelling just blew up a place of worship.... f*ck.... hmmmm... yer

  • @Streety101101 joo spel gudz keed. I'm not anti-drug. I don't think it's the answer to everything especially in the intellectual endevour. I know physicists and mathematicians who get high and rock out equations. If you want to make a case for not being so dumb it would seem you would at least try and spell correctly.

  • @TheDouchesupreme y? the name of things or how well you spell them dosent actual show that you know anything about something. You gotta open your eyes man... have some DMT...

  • @TheDouchesupreme Don't try to reason with idiots.. they will lower you to their level and beat you by experience.

  • @Streety101101 What's so great about being chilled out and quiet? What's so bad about being passionate and loud?

    I rather live in a world filled with Feynmans and passionate, loud people than one filled with quiet weedheads who do nothing but "chill out."

  • @sexyloser because if everyone was loud then no one would be heard

  • @Streety101101 What does that mean? That people should all be talking at the same time?

    Feynman listened as much as he talked. Being loud doesn't mean you never shut up.

  • @sexyloser hey man..... dont get snappy at me... im just trying to chill out, ur killing my buzz

  • At 8.21 I cannot make out the word they both use

    " is considered another problem(feyman) ..................... condition.

    can anyone tell?

  • @judgenap boundary

  • @judgenap He said the "boundary condition".

  • @judgenap Boundary condition

  • Can you imagine an American interviewer giving sidehand commentary with such depth as this guy did? Seriously listen to the commentator set up each discussion. Present day America is lost. Feynman was the last man out.

  • lmao, when he says the words aint gonna do you any good, feynman was truely a great character.

  • Richard Feynman inspired me into science.

  • Great video!

    Thanks for sharing. It's true that the "mundane" ideas in life bring into focus the beautiful interactions occurring, literally, in front of all of us everyday.

    The next time you look at the moon, see it for the sphere it is.

  • lol, "millions of light-years old" 4:53

  • @8JSimo

    Like the Kessel run?

    ...

    *ducks*

  • @8JSimo While a scientist would probably never use this terminology, the way it is being applied by the narrator here is not entirely incorrect - when talking about a distant object, you know the light has taken the same amount of time to arrive as the distance in light-years it is away from you - so it is redundant, but not necessarily wrong - If he had said something like "the galaxy is a million lightyears old" then clearly that would be incorrect usage.

  • @matthewjsharpe Fair enough, but the unit of 'light year' was defined by the distance light travels for a duration of one year. Not the other way around. I suppose it's because of the name. It just seems funny. "I am 7000 metres old" :)

  • Hoyle seems overwhelmed by Feynman.

  • @scottvska Note that they are both completely, gentlemanly drunk. Feynman is just more of an extrovert when intoxicated. Also, you would never ever see this anymore. Two genius figures, heroes of their age, getting sloshed in a pub and just talking. Even though that's how many of the great ideas of history have arisen.

  • @scottvska No one could keep up with Feynman. Feynman thinks so fast and so far outside the box, that it takes people quite awhile just to understand where he is going and how it is related to what they were just talking about. One has to sit back and listen/think just to understand him. This gives listeners zero time to add to what he has just said, because they are too busy digesting it. Meanwhile, Feynman will be off on the next walk down the hitchhikers guide. But who cares-JUST LISTEN!

  • lol@ their pub convo. that's what most blokes talk about at the pub... quasars.

  • ... matter's properties (the laws that govern this new matter). so that in the end there is underlying pattern that describes the generation of new patterns. as a caveat, keep in mind that the brain is novel in its ability to not only recognize patterns but to also generate new patterns. i think that is cosmic time or even human time, it will not be long before there are entities that came from humans that can generate patterns so well as to capable of generating new universes.

  • i think that as matter changes so do the laws that govern it. consider that just earlier he was explaining the seemingly paradoxical situation in which quarks seem to obey completely different laws from atoms and similarly the problem with electrons behaving like particles and waves simultaneously in the 3 slit experiment. i think there is a pattern to the change though so that when you compose new matter by stacking older smaller bits of matter, you should be able to predict a change in that...

  • 5:00 in is the Bridge Inn, Ripponden. Many happy tipples there. :)

  • @hobatu

    It's more like urging people to use buckets for transportation.

  • I think am the only 19 years old boy whos watching this.

  • @ahmednoe Think, about your statement again please.

  • @ahmednoe well...there's at least two

  • @ahmednoe no. your not.

  • @ahmednoe

    I'm 16 and I watch this kind of stuff all the time :P

  • 5:40 talking about dark energy?!

  • @chrisofnottingham It certainly sounds like it! It sounds like that other gentleman is describing the problem of an accelerating universe as observed by red shift problems, though they didn't directly mention this possibility...

  • @hobatu

    Wow, great observation. I could not agree more. The string of fascination in the world is what life is. If you tell someone that the only thing life is is this one thing that a certain group says without any evidence. You dumb down life itself, you dumb down that person's fascinations, and wonder. Making them less present in their lives.

  • Loved him in Symphony of Science.

  • What an incredible way to spend a rainy afternoon. That's like heaven--intelligent funny conversation and a few drinks. Nothing like my life.

  • Good God! What a piece of film, what a piece of knowledge!!! The concept of the laws evolving had never ( and would never) have even occurred to me! The fundamental breadth of vision of Feynman continues to astound me. 

  • The guy who interviews Feynman is the great English Physicist and Cosmologist Fred Hoyle.

  • "light years old" ???

  • @onepcwhiz well noticed, narrators a fraud!

  • 6:10 - 7:07 funny haha

  • as a non scientist I find this stuff really exciting. I failed in ALL my science classes at school, but have always wanted to engage with these big questions. The likes of Feynman and Sagan in their day, and Dr Brian Cox on UK tv today, give me hope!

  • What Feynman said about an evolving universe is quite profound, as some physicists today argue that same point...

  • genius, so beautiful

  • Genius

  • I wish I could step into this video and tell these guys the Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. I'd also tell them what Quasars are. These are things we've figured out since these men died. It's outstanding being able to follow scientific thinking and its progress. Thank You Youtube!

  • @ashleylovesdaddy

    My sentiments exactly. had these men of our days past (I feel That they knew about it though) had known of our Tech Capabilities as of this day, They would have done even greater things.

  • @Cheegro well you could say that about anyone (scientist or theorist) at any given time; as with any exponental growth curve, especially in this case scientific understanding, any point on that line appears to be the greatest time in the history of our understanding.

  • he turned down the lead role in the spagetti westerns eastwood was their second choice, shame

  • If you cant explain it simply then you dont understand it well enough ;)

    He diffinetley understands it ;)

    I love his book.I could listen to him talk about anything all day because he makes everything interesting.....

    Somehow this video reminds me of Monthy Pythons ;)

  • 5:00

    a million millionth of a second?

    isn't that one second?

  • Its grat that he considers all possibilities. Open mindedness.

  • around 4:56 the narrator says "galaxies that are millions of light years old" ha ha, how ignorant

  • Only a stupid will interfere a super genius. According to Feynman's own words, they are called pompous fools who pretend as if they have knowledge but they don't.

  • "millions of light-years old" .... slight fail there Mr. BBC

  • around 9:00 he speaks of the evolution of physical law(s). this idea has been permeating my thoughts recently & I find it reassuring to know that Dr. Feynman was (at least) proposing this notion some thirty (it looks) years ago. i believe that this notion will enable an explanation of the ability of the universe to have occupied what we now believe to be a singularity, & to now expand at an ever growing velocity & although i lack the knowledge to adequately explain the idea, it rings true.

  • They didn't know until the early 80s (I think) that quarks were held by gluons. The reason that sub atomic particles could in theory be taken apart and exist in different states with heat, is because they were in a similar state before and during cosmic inflation. Rather, that these sub atomic particles existed in a more symetric, low entropy state, when the early universe was more than 10 billion billion billion degrees C.

  • I am in love with this man. I want to marry him <3

    I dunno why the world praise people like Brad Pitt or whoever...when this man has a brain, character and personality of a thousand men, enough to enchant the souls of a million women.

  • @spankthamunkey

    "I dunno why the world praise people like Brad Pitt or whoever...when this man has a brain, character and personality of a thousand men, enough to enchant the souls of a million women."

    You're out of luck. Brains attract brains. Feynman is rarer than the Higgs Boson.

    I much prefer Dr. Jonas Salk over Feynman though.

    An MD is harder to acquire than a PhD in applied mathematics + quantum mechanics.

  • 2:36 to 2:39

    WAAHAAAA ROFLCOPTER LMAO!

  • are they drinking beer ? how cool !!!

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  • I wonder what he would have thought of string theory

  • "I dont like that theyre not calculating anything. I dont like that they dont check their ideas. I dont like that for anything that disagrees with a n experiment, they cook up an explanation—a fix-up to say, Well, it might be true. For example, the theory requires ten dimensions. Well, maybe theres a way of wrapping up six of the dimensions. Yes, thats all possible mathematically, but why not seven?"

  • "When they write their equation, the equation should decide how many of these things get wrapped up, not the desire to agree with experiment. In other words, theres no reason whatsoever in superstring theory that it isnt eight out of the ten dimensions that get wrapped up and that the result is only two dimensions, which would be completely in disagreement with experience."

  • "So the fact that it might disagree with experience is very tenuous, it doesnt produce anything; it has to be excused most of the time. It doesnt look right." -- Richard Feynman in an interview just before his death.

  • "String theorists don't make predictions, they make excuses." Feynman, Noble Laureate

  • i agree with that completely...

  • Fred Hoyle is a very accomplished scientist himself, his contributions to the stellar nucleosynthesis model were revolutionary, as were alot of his contributions to cosmology.

    Even the most adept scientists of their time were intimidated by Feynman, his breadth of knowledge was so deep and intricate, its hard to get on his level. Feynman wasnt just about explaining things to the lay man, he was a genuine genius. Probably the only one in his field since Einstein.

  • How about you all stop belittling the interviewer (who i may add, at least had the interest to conduct an interview with Feynman, that we are able able to watch today on youtube, we should all be grateful) and focus more on the great Feynman.

  • Fred Hoyle wrote the best fiction ever, The Black Cloud

    i do so recommend it!

  • @HeyHeyHarmonicaLuke, whats The Black Cloud about?

  • it was about the discovery of an interstellar cloud which was heading directly at the solar system

    there were great discussions on predicting how it might impact the earth, temperature, duration, atmospheric poison,

    then the sci-fi twist

    they discover it to be alive, and super intelligent!

  • haha the interviewer is kind of an idiot, but oh well.

  • Well, I myself wouldn't even dare to interview a genius like Feynman. In my eyes the interviewer has done a good job: he didn't cut him off of his explanations, he didn't interfere, he just listened, like we are supposed to do. I really did relish Feynman speaking.

  • Well, he did think light years were a measure of time...

  • @brian1729 Ah, the good ol' days when journalists weren't useless, self righteous, sensationalist cunts.

  • Simple to Feynman!

  • it's kind of annoying when an interviewer repeatedly says, "yeah, mhm, yes, hmm, yeah, ok, mhmmm, right, yes." while the interviewee is trying to speak. It's very distracting for the viewer.

  • the reporter (or narrator ro whatever) just said the galaxies were millions of light years old. ??? thats like me saying im 5 hours and 9 seconds tall.

  • @dvangennep perhaps he was assuming the universe was expanding and could quantify that growth using distance (speed of light * however many years)?

  • That horese reference was, spot on...I like the was it describes, your ideas..

  • True. Point well taken.

  • Incredible footage of Feynman and Hoyle! Imagine sharing a beer with Feynman, what an experience!

  • Or imagine sharing a joint with Feynman, not that I smoke pot. I have before tho.

    But seriously imagine being high and hanging out with that guy while he talks shop, and that for him being physics. Far Out Man...

  • hah, even better.

  • a beer?????  I would want to share a six-pack with that brain..amazing gift for explaining science.

  • That would be a picture of heaven I could subscribe to.

  • When they walking on bridge the voice narrator is like from Monthy Python lol xD ;) ! ! !

  • Hahaha, it must be impossible to get a word in edgewise with Dick Feynman. I like that.

  • what it mean edgewise

  • perpendicular, to enter. Intercept.

  • thanks george

  • evolutionist

  • he 'was' a evolutionist, he died long ago, was that a trick question?

  • to be honest you may be both!

    science or evolution dont claim that creation didnt exist soly on the notion of evolution.

    religion does! religion is not the point here!

  • so? if its beyond physicists its certainly beyond any religious institution, unless you are ready to believe that Lord of the Rings was a documentary or that the only way to go to Valhalla is to die in combat.

  • look..i see your trying to start an intellectual debate here...and ill be happy to if you state your point of view... being an atheist is very easy...same for a creationist, but in the middle there is a lot to say.

    so ill wait for your opinion on this.

  • Yes being an atheist is very easy, once you get there, because atheists operate on evidence, creationists have 'faith' just as Greeks did believing in Zeus, Egyptians did believing in Ra, list goes on, all those religions are now considered by everybody to be extinct and those gods imaginary. Atheists just go one god further and don't subscribe to any religion. I think it's a lot harder to be a creationist actually, evidence and logic screams the opposite, seems to be a intellectual prison.

  • Actually I don't have time to 'debate' anything, I used to a lot and now consider it a waste of time. After all I'm just font on your computer screen, it makes little difference, people are free to believe or not believe whatever they feel like, always look for evidence, same evidence that lead to the moon landing, made the computer you are on, agriculture, medicine, the list goes on, science is our future. Take care.

  • i dont think there is a lot to say in the middle, like bird said one demands evidence, which hypocrites take for granted, using accomplishments of science which operates on evidence and then complain about it vs 'faith' wtf is 'faith' it gets us nothing but child abuse, murder, confusion, clairvoyance and slowed our progress...I agree with bird that debating creationism is a huge waste of time...

  • AWE :( did somebody get mad? babyboy is crying everybody, stfu you delusional fuck, jump off a bridge and fight against the theory of gravity. Like you said previously 'what is the point of existence' well in your case there is no point, you shouldn't exist, you waste resources you disgusting, fat, ugly parasite.

  • SpacePulsarMan why are you wasting your time talking to a retarded kid, he clearly has emotional problems, is uneducated like many and clearly has no understanding of science vs religion.

  • Vodka, ya i know, notice that when intellect runs out they always resort to animalistic violence, now that is a perfect primate instinct, except humans should be able to control those, not this guy and 'jaalul' that isn't nonsense btw, read some Carl Sagan. I loved how you started all polite but then when you heard a different point of you, you resorted to name calling so I gave you a little taste of that back and you exploded like a fucking child, you don't know how to have a proper argument.

  • childhood voice is what discovered e=mc2

  • would you like to state your opinion?

  • you said "your a FOOL...especially if you tell me i evolved come from a monkey!

    you sir came from a monkey maybe, and thats why you have no logic! none! what does not believing in religion have to do with not believing in random chance?" We didn't come from monkeys that you see today we came from a common ancestor that probably resembled a primate based on the fossil evidence. Evolution doesn't happen by random chance, genes vary randomly but *survival* of those genes is NOT random.

  • Space you are 100% correct, I find it absolutely stunning that somebody like Jaalul who can't seem to form a proper sentence, spell or a coherent thought has the balls to call somebody a "monkey and a FOOL" I've know monkeys who acted more eloquently.

  • Living in a fantasy world can be comforting.

    Others find reality and rational thought more productive. These people have been highly successful and are the ones who came up with every single invention ever made.

  • Technically we still ARE monkeys, check out AronRa's content on the matter.

  • DNA links every living organism together, it really is like a tree with a lot of branches. Take anaerobic glycolysis, a very complicated cascade of chemical reactions, that is done the same way by every living organism, bacteria does the anaerobic glycolysis, that is why apples rot. They, we and all the creatures in between posses similar genetic instructions, which is just another reminder of deep interconnection of all living things on our planet.

  • DNA isn't part of a tool kit used to design all life by an intelligent designer? I guess he forgot to register his patent :)

  • jaalul why would you even assume that a genius like Feynman would even come NEAR creationism, hes been criticizing religion all his life.

  • learn to spell, you are a fucking moron, landing on the moon is a fine example of the power of science, Darwin said nothing of the creator you nitwit, he HAD no death bed conversion that is a lie propagated by the creationist front. You sir are a fucking idiot to call anybody a 'fool' THERE IS NO REASON FOR existence, that is a stupid ass question that is like asking what is the color of jealousy just because you can form a idiotic question doesnt mean it requires a answer, so go fuck yourself.

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  • The Pub! the most intellectually stimulating environment ever conceived by man

  • be as conservative as possible

  • Wheels within wheels...

    Talking Heads...

    Slippery People

  • look here

  • look where? be more specific ; )

  • Great video thanks for posting it - Feynman rules. Sounds exactly like me and my mates when we go down the pub - not.

  • This is making me so stoked for what the LHC is gonna cook up. makes me want to bury my head in a physics book if I wasn't a tard.

  • 8:25 is a very striking analogy

  • "millions of lightyears old" ??!!

  • Lol, the interviewer clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. Well spotted, I didn't notice it until I played it back.

  • oh god, now im afraid of listening to it, its gonna kill the mood

  • shit is so cash, yet again

    moving onto the last part^^

  • "Yeah, we work where the light's better"... love his quips.

  • Holy shit, great upload, thank you.

  • I don't catch it, but i play it again and yes. Narrator used this phrase.

  • anyone else catch "millions of light years old" @ 4:50?

  • yes. @ 453-456. if curious, the beautiful thing about astronomy is that you're looking into the past the further you look out bcuz of the speed of light. not to infer idiocy, just saying. Poul Anderson's "the Avatar" is a great read. there's a chapter in the latter part where they talk about a species of subatomic creatures that live for fractions of a second but in reality time is going much slower at their level: think about how slow a giant moves as to the speed of the insect i love that idea

  • i love to think of time like that,take a glacier for example, if, say u freeze framed 1 picture of 1 every ten minutes for ten years then played the resulting film at 'normal' speed u wud see that it flows like a river....i dont really know where to go from there, but an interesting thought i think :S

  • Help! I'm in love with a dead man!

  • Me too! And I'm a straight male!

  • LOL! It's widely known, by teenage boys--(I'm the mother of one)-- that having a guy crush on Jimmy Page is not in the least bit "gay."

    I love that. Now, when they are dead, the sex and our orientation seems to be even mooter, if that's a word. Feynman was the bomb! (Sorry).

    I'm a straight woman and am in love with Audrey Hepburn.Fine. Now, if I insist on my kid putting on a tie. I get,"That's so gay." Love it.

  • what the hell..... I thought he didnt drink to keep his mind good. He seems to be nursing a beer. I dont like it.

  • feynman did some drugs like LSD too and he did become an alcoholic for a while. But he quit because he didn't want to damage his brain. Read his auto biography.

  • well in history of science, a lot of the scientists had sort of addictions to alcohol, soft or hard drugs. For instance, Carl Sagan was a pothead but who cares he was still smart :)

  • i really dont know why you took my comment seriously, seriously i have no idea why you got so temper even though i didn't mention any insult or smth, get yourself some anti-depressants

  • Sorry, I like to deal with the truth about my profession, you obviously don't.

  • Dealing the truth.. well drug and alcohol abuse is just another perspective of life in means of human relationships, psychological and physical tendencies on certain substances. It is just related into science in medicinal matters.what i really wanted to say, it doesn't really matter if a great scientist or a state's person abuses some of those substance, what matters is if that person does the job good or bad.That's what i wanted to mention that's all and i am also chemist.And i still used weed

  • LOL phony scientist..carl sagan made numerous contributions well before he popularized science. Look it up, that's a really ignorant thing to say.

  • O.K. well I have read all his scientific papers. He discovered some things about Venus with like 10 other people and some things on Europa with like 15 other people. He only has like 5 scientific papers. That is it.

    Sorry I like to deal with the truth, you obviously do not.