Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (2/4)

[TheShmadison]

Thank you for uploading these. He is inspiring!

[vdst1]

Just reading about liquid hydrogen. Think about this. Our entire scale of temperature ( USA you guys are not included ), is set around the liquidity of water. 0-100 Degrees. It is.

The other thing is everything has a liquidity range. So a gas like hydrogen: has a liquidity range at -259 C -> -252 C, iron: 1538 C -> 2862 C. H2O: 0 C -> 100 C.

That any gas can be a solid if it is cold enough and any solid can be a gas ( and presumably a plasma ) if it is hot enough is awesome !

[bradduke]

Thanks for posting these videos... Inspirational stuff!

[Mallaclllypse]

3:30 "...one: yak, yak and you nodding..." this man is pure gold^^

[gatoazul4321]

I wonder what did he thought at 4:25... At least 30 concepts in 1 second.

[ZachRose88]

The truth IS remarkable and amazing. Thanks for posting.

[TheStigma]

I just love how Feynman keeps saying stuff like "its not very hard..." when talking about how to interpret the results of a nuclear accelerator's experiments lol.

Yea - it kind of IS pretty hard Mr. Feynman - you sexy beast - for the rest of us who are under the 99,99 percentile IQ. Stop making the rest of us look bad damnit!

[TheStigma]

@TheStigma Actually when I look it up it seems Feynman was "only" at an IQ score of about 125 - meaning somewhere between above average and well above average. A "normal" smart guy in other words (with genius levels starting from around 140-145. I've tested to 135-137, and I still struggle to understand the true implications of the things he discusses (to a layman even).

Just goes to show much much education, effort and desire to learn counts compared to natural talent. anyone can do anything.

[Bnjolly]

@TheStigma While I believe that IQ is an imperfect method for measuring intelligence, I wouldn't put too much stock in reports of Feynman's "unremarkable" IQ. As I understand it, the score in the 120s was from a test taken when Feynman was a child - a test that had a much lower ceiling (around the 99th percentile) than most official IQ tests, making it's accuracy questionable.

[TheStigma]

@Bnjolly Yea - my research into it wasn't really "in-depth" so to speak either. It was more along the lines of putting "richard feynman iq" into a google search - so yea - take it with a grain of salt indeed. Thanks for the clarification in any case.

[Bnjolly]

@Bnjolly I wouldn't be surprised if Feynman's intellectual development, like that of many gifted children, was lopsided: he may have tested at the ceiling of the mathematical portion of the IQ test, while only testing average or slightly above average in the verbal portion. This could very well lead to an overall score in the mid-120s.  Such a score, however, hardly tells us what Feynman might have scored on a more accurate test as an adult.

[mojado1982]

maybe Feynman wasn't the greatest physic in history, but surely he was the best teacher.

[wvoelcker]

The last few minutes is what my final year project was on at university :)

[av733]

Ha its funny how it appears as tho Feynman really dislikes that interviewer, maybe its because he is in a nice suit :)

[Linkwii64]

i think like Feynman

[raydredX]

@Linkwii64 You are Feynman. ure da men!

[mojado1982]

@Linkwii64 with all due respect sir, I sincerley doubt it

[mike18at]

This brought me to "Fun to Imagine", which is an excellent BBC series with Feynman! What a great teacher and scientist!

[bersa888]

"The truth is much more remarkable..." Science has been winning, sorry superstitious folks :-))))

[logicCplusplus]

@bersa888

LOL. I can tell you right now that physicists such as Feynman who breakdown Biology to atoms are losing big time. There is another layer in the universe and it is not derived from the medium and its called "information". Biological systems are information processing machines and the only rational explanation for Von Neumann machinery is that an Intelligence of some was involved. Sorry Dawkins/Darwin chance worshipping folks! :))))))

[bersa888]

@logicCplusplus : I'd like to know more about that, and will look into/research VN machinery, although I'm afraid you are making the usual non-sequitur, tired assumption that goes like "it's too complicated/inexplicable, therefore some kind of magic must have happened" - unless that "magic" is a natural process, I could never agree. No matter what, the best I can do in such a case do is to suspend my judgement and keep searching :-) Where did you get your info on VN from...?

[logicCplusplus]

@bersa888

Ok, seems we can have a rational discussion.

The instructions in DNA are processed in VN assembly fashion. The instructions are stepped through beginning with a start instruction, each subsequent instruction tells the ribosome to pick/fetch 1 of 20 or so amino acids that is specified by a lookup codon table. That amino acid is added to the growing chain. Once the stop instruction is encountered, the protein forms from the finished chain of amino acids.

[bersa888]

@logicCplusplus : OK, so far so good, although I thought (and according to some of my friends in the field who share my belief that I.D. is nothing more than "a philosophy of ignorance"), "cellular bio-mechanical forces and exploratory behavior of cells" are the reason/explanation behind "the mystery". A still open field of research, I agree. I just could never accept anything that may remotely resemble I.D. as the cause of it all (I'm not sure if this is what you are implying anyway). 

[logicCplusplus]

@bersa888

We readily observe that nature produces complex patterns (refer to the Mandelbrot set). However, patterns does not translate into design, but design does translate into patterns. When a highly improbable event occurs such as the origin of life it defies the logic of nature. It is reasonable to ask whether an Intelligent source of some kind was required, because we as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, only Intelligence is known to accomplish such a feat.

[bersa888]

@logicCplusplus : Well, I understand your point - I understood your position from the start. All I can say is that it is still not clear; they are working on it; I couldn't possibly reach your conclusions; and lastly, in the words of Feynman, "Improbable things happen all the times" ;-). Have a good day/night. Cheers.

[logicCplusplus]

@bersa888

I'm sure they are working on it. The process of understanding how something works does not mean that we can ever explain its existence. In school, we learned to ask 5 basic questions: who, what, where, why and how. How many of these questions do you believe science can answer and should answer? These are all legitimate domains of knowledge and exposes the limits of present day science.

[bersa888]

@logicCplusplus : Science should and will answer all of them to the best of their knowledge, leaving an open door for revisions and/or revolutions of ideas. Although marred at times by our greed and wickedness, reaching haphazard conclusions is neither the specialty nor the domain of good science.

[itchcity]

This guy is a good role model for any young man, and that's an understatement. Thoughtful and open-minded, yet confident and assertive, on top of a million other wonderful things. If I had to pick someone as the most inspirational and influential person upon my life, I would pick this man. He inspired me to quit abusing my mind and body, let go of my troubled roots, stop worrying about what others think, and to pursue my passion for physical science.

[kayakbruce1]

@itchcity Good on ya Mate! I spent the summer reading earth sciences while bicycling in the mountains. This winter I've taught myself guitar, right,left, and upside down with both. Like Feynman said, look at it from a new direction! The party never ends. I'm 56

[aseglkj]

@itchcity that's the plot of good will hunting you dumbass

[invertedchords]

Notice the height of forehead, it's like those novel depictions of super-intelligent cartoon aliens with an exaggerated head size.

[invertedchords]

Notice the height of his head from chin to top, it's like those novel exaggerations of brainy forms of life depicted by an alien with a huge head.

[invertedchords]

Notice the height of his head from chin to where he head is, it's like those novel exaggerations of brainy forms of life depicted by an alien with a huge head.

[mike19831115]

I worked out that 1 x 3000 is 3000

[TheEntropianist]

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.

[losboston]

is the interviewer richard dawkins?

[SamiLuukkanen]

Oh before the Standard Model...

[chris060372]

from 3:48 he explains very simply why religious and spiritual nuts don't like science: because you have to do a hell of a lot of studying to find the answers, not just think of idiotic concepts off the top of your head. i actually have a friend who believes my biggest problem is that i read too many books and believe everything i read. dear god!

[Jeffff23]

@chris060372 Why are you friends with such an idiot?

[MarkArandjus]

2:37 FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuu....

[TheEduzealot]

How can 7 people not like this?????!!!

[TheEduzealot]

How in the world can 7 people not to like this!!!

[coachbrp]

We actually can't make the fire of the sun, it's fusion.

[goetzc]

@coachbrp Take a look at the "Ivy Mike" bomb

[bluegollum]

@coachbrp we did fusion a looong time ago, fusion bomb. controlled fusion for a reactor is a different matter

[jimmyti9cer]

6:22-6:27 that interviewer is jumping back from feynman like he was gonna hit him hahaha

[Lucuskane]

It continuous to amaze, when it comes to the universe. Imagination and curiosity, are very important.

[Skampieorigine]

Gestual he does sure help alot to understand the absract concept the mention.

[starsolace]

I love physics! I just wish I could do the math :/ I could listen to any physicist all day long and understand everything he or she says with complete clarity...but the moment I'm actually given a pen and paper with a mathematical equation, by brain goes to fritz. I'm in awe at such genius :)

[okaymckay]

@starsolace you should try, 'cause it's a matter of practice really. and without the math there's no truly understanding (or let's say 'appreciation of beauty') (and by the way, i study physics)

[featheredmusic]

his brain looks huge!

[swiralgod]

the commentary from that posh brit is tormenting ..

[mothachugga]

thanks

[senorMiguelCoconut]

can you please add to the description the year when this was aired (if you know it)? thank you :)

[tml4873]

@senorMiguelCoconut It's mentioned that he's 54, so that would make it 1972 or 1973.

[senorMiguelCoconut]

@tml4873 thanks!

[jimmyti9cer]

im zero compared to feynman but im glad to say I also have this disease.I dont want the cure either.

[SnuffThaRooster]

My question... who are the 7 people that didn't like this???

[tilemacro]

@SnuffThaRooster the idiots living among us

[faazedo]

@SnuffThaRooster You antecipated my question, Thumbs up!

[rujtj]

@SnuffThaRooster

Losers.

[wozzek22]

@SnuffThaRooster I wondered the same. Imagine the mind (?) of a being who can dislike Feyman's passion for life and science. I have a guess but ... :)

[Snookerallan]

@SnuffThaRooster Who cares.....

[bitchslapper12]

@SnuffThaRooster They went somewhere else.

[thenightair]

@SnuffThaRooster Do we really want to know?

[kajakpaddler92]

@SnuffThaRooster probably some creationist folks lol

[byronP40]

@SnuffThaRooster Stupid fucking Christians , that's who.

[Arkanovi1989]

Is it just me, or does the interviewer seem really uncomfortable here? xD at 6:25 he flinches xD

[gWalters86]

@Arkanovi1989 lol. awesome.

[vaidehiraghavan]

He had a great sense oh humor. You should read Surely, you're joking Mr Feynman(by hisown words). Also read James Gleick "Genius" about Feynman. No Physicist comes closer to this Curious Character for mastery in many things apart from Physics. Einstein was self-taught in violin. So there were many Physicists with different talents but none like RPF.

[Ecite]

Wow...just wow. Sadly, I just learned about this guy and just from watching a couple videos of him I think he's amazing. His charisma is nearly jaw-dropping!

[thegoonist]

5:36??? expand a gas so it will boil? am i missing something here?

[i7887]

@thegoonist I think you misheard him. He said a liquid, not a gas.

[Jim1905]

@thegoonist

It was a liquid, liquid hydrogen

[jimmyti9cer]

@thegoonist they expand the gas n order2decrease the pressure.a fundamental law of science is that a decrease n pressure will cause a decrease n the boiling point of a substance.like when u go high up in the mountains the pressure is less than sea level and so when u boil water up there it boils well before the water reaches212degrees F. or100 C. so they get the hydrogen pressure so low that any nput of energy( and energy always adds heat)will cause that surrounding area(around the atom)2bubble.

[thegoonist]

@jimmyti9cer my bad i misheard him. one question though, how does the piston in the bubble chamber expand the liquid hydrogen literally? since we know that liquids cannot be expanded/compressed? ive learnt about thermodynamics but mostly theoretically. visually im still not too sure.

[cipher314]

6:25 Feynman scares the journalist with his hand motions.

[neonsilkworm]

@cipher314 - You gotta watch out for Feynman's particle hands. He gets a little excited sometimes!

[agresticumbra]

@cipher314 Guess he felt like Feynman invaded his bubble. :)

[cpk9999]

@cipher314 lmfao

[icecreamandwine]

Three types of quarks? I was under the impression that it was 6: up, down, top, bottom, charm, strange.

Am I misunderstanding what he meant by 3 types, or they were discovered after this video was made?

[RichardMisiak]

I'm pretty sure they hadn't been discovered yet

from how feynman looks i'm guessing this is from about early 70s and it was only at this time that the other three quarks were being theorized

with the bottom and charm quarks being discovered shortly after but it took till 1995 to discover the top quark

[WNxFish]

@icecreamandwine Originally only three quarks were required to explain everything. When we found certain particles we had to invent more.

[primummovens]

Eh, like you say. Up/Down = 1 type, 2 charges. Smartypance

[mikeroephonics]

If you haven't yet, watch all 4 parts. Add to favorites if you're short on time. I had to watch this a few times to let it all sink in. 5/5

[owlqaeda]

sorry here it is. i love this cat

[Popperite]

Ditto!

[tekproxy]

It's hard for me to get excited during a role playing game with magic and dragons and such, because I'm constantly reminded how much more fucking awesome and amazing our real universe is.

[Kurtlane]

Thank you, Mr. Feynman. Finally, someone explained to me the basics of those chambers. Until now, I saw these weird pictures with all sorts of weirds squiggles in them, spirals and all, and when I asked, they'd just say, "Oh, this is a muon, this is a clingon, that is a bozon and this is a bizon." And I'd go, "Wait a minute. Before you tell me their names, tell me how they are produced."

Now, in less than a minute, Mr. Feynman made it all very clear.

[Arkanj3l]

I love the thing he does with his eyes.

[davehooke1973]

Great upload. Cheers.

Also, I am pretty sure this presenter must have been the inspiration for Palin and Idle's documentary voiceovers.

[rclxor]

I remember when I first learned what a derivative, differentiation and integration fundamentally are thanks to Feynman's lectures on physics. His explanation was simple and brilliant, it stuck on me like glue.

[EJohnson999]

LOL we were living on the back of a turtle

[LifeinaRaindrop]

No, we were being held upon by Atlas!

[ammomammal]

turtles all the way down

[waperboy]

Feynman was a terrific improbable combination of a number of traits - openminded inquisitiveness, great personality, great with words, passionate, and other things. The world is filled with people that excel in one or more of those, but to see them all lined up in one person is rare.

[DLPBurke]

agreed waper

[rajithaify]

@waperboy true

[likeroby]

@waperboy A lot of that came from what his education was. His father should be appreciated greatly, because Feynman was the genius who was, because of his awesome dad. So keep that in mind when you have your own boy, and maybe you'll have a little "Feynman" yourself.

[dopejoel]

@waperboy The one I'd like to add is that he's HAPPY. I can't stand seeing miserable intellectuals lol.

[Tapecutter59]

It's a pity he died at the time when supercomputers were starting to be built that can take the simple rules of the game and not only easily beat any human at chess but also reproduce the complexity of earth's climate, the folding of a protien molecule, the mammalian neocortex and the interaction of galaxies.

I wonder what he would have done with such a machine?

[emil2796]

good thing they got his brain scanned so that soon he will ba able to take the form of a cyborg.

[johntkucz]

Kasparov. feynman's strength was physics, remember, not chess. He liked metaphors of chess as life. So likely, the supercomputers like "deep blue" wouldn't have affected him much...he'd still have spearheaded physics at whatever area he lived in.

[historyscoper]

Reproduce the complexity of the earth's climate? Not by a long shot, ask the victims of Hurricane Katrina :)

[Tapecutter59]

Climate models do have hurricanes emerge in the correct regions. Katrina's tidal surge was predicted by similar models three days in advance, I was in Australia and read it 2 days before Katrina hit. Not bad for a wether prediction.

However climate prediction is not weather prediction even though they do use similar software models. In many respects climate is easier to predict because it's stable over long perdiods of time.

[juggaloryan3]

Not by a long shot? Pretty sure everyone across the entire country knew where and when that hurricane was going to hit, days in advance...

[qtedq]

but no amount of computing or machinery can substitute the ingenuity that he possesses

[Tapecutter59]

Who's "he"?

[pr0reality]

"But it is not complicated, it's just a lot of it." at 3:53.

Love that quote.

[bqreus]

Me wit da yak yak and you wit da nodding. XD

[Mirid]

Classic Feynman :D

[peaceiscontagious]

"Remedium amoris. - The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return." - Nietzsche

[theimperfektman]

beautiful. to have loved than to have never have loved at all. always learning what love is and means to us, personally

[thesimpsons2345]

"They were wondeul stories, but the truth is so much more remarkable." -- Indeed.

[itsabomberscope]

The Bruce Lee of physics!

[feerbase]

Agreed. We need a Bruce Lee of economics.

[mistermay1]

Ludwig Von Mises is the Bruce lee of economics.

[jack19790]

I'm the Pee-Wee Herman of movie goers.

[francescaemc2]

Feynman is so hot.

[outrider52]

ca. 1972

[thomasbryn1]

Like wise ..thank you for posting these fantastic videos..Youtube is enriched by them

[stmirren1877]

I wish there was more of this kind of stuff on YouTube!

If more people watched/listened to Feynman, I think there would be far more aspiring physicists out there.

[theimperfektman]

bravo

[mrpossibilities]

I'm thinking that the character of Dr Emment Brown might have been inspired by him.... in the same way that the character of Agent Smith might have been inspired by Carl Sagan.

[FeelOfFriction]

Interesting.

[asmodeus585]

Dr Emment Brown was great. But what makes you think that Sagan could have been an inspiration for Agent Smith?

[mrpossibilities]

Man, are you kidding me? Seriously? Have you heard them speak? In fact, type "Carl Sagan the Matrix" on youtube and you'll find an interesting parody they did, where they overdubbed Agent Smith with Sagan's voice. It's a known fact that their voices are remarkably similar, to the point that there's an online parody on the matter. Check it out, it's hilarious.

[zapproowsdower]

Dude, that video is one of the funniest, most creative things I've seen in a long, long time - thanks for the suggestion

[mrpossibilities]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[tokacs]

Thank you for posting these wonderful videos. Feynman always makes me smile. Great man. Too bad he never made it to Tuva, They have a statue of him now.

[ShearZone101]

Intelligence requires curiosity;

like Einstein often said "Im not especially intelligent, Im just passionalty curious"

I wish I could comprehend physics like Feynman, hes truly wonderful

[10mintwo]

here's a tip for you. stop telling other people what you think. you're dumb.

[everygdusernametaken]

we don't need your 'answers'

we find real ones

[jaqzzzz]

Small correction: Einstein did contribute greatly to Ed Teller, and many others ways of thinking including Feynman, during the Manhatten project. As sad as the results of the project were, Teller would later confess his remorse.

BTW

Einstein believed in God. Yet, he didn't belive in a personal God. It's called Pantheism.

"God does not play dice with the world."

-----------Einstein

Einstein, Feynman, both saw too much intelligence in Gods creation.

Youtube, "The inner life of a cell."

[jaqzzzz]

Great Man, He worked on the Manhatten project, with Einstein, imagine splitting an atom? No one did. Yet they did. When you tamper with Gods reality/holding everything together perfectly, in every atom of your body, everything, then there is more energy in a simple atom, and not soo simple you, that, the gap is filled quite quickly. Thus, the atom bomb, Check out, "The inner cell," on youtube. Harvard pictures. Just lately we have been able too see this! Or Shane Claiborne on youtube.

[DrZenith]

Small correction: Einstein did not work on the Manhatten project, although he did write to Roosevelt to say the Germans might be working on an atomic bomb and that the U.S. should begin working on the idea.... BTW, let's call it nature's reality rather than some imaginary supernatural entity like god.

[007Thiago]

Actually, the letter was written by Leo Szilard, with Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, and signed by Einstein.

[mrpossibilities]

Damn.... you lost me there mr Feynman. But I'm gonna do the research and try to educate myself better to understand this.

[niranjansm]

Genius

[ndjarnag]

yeah, but forget his genius for a moment. If I had half of his curiousity I'd be doing ok.

[loulou5540]

i think you're totally right. curiousity plus incredulity led Feynman to incredible discoveries and leaps in physics. Never forget: "all i know is i know nothing at all"