Richard Feynman Magnets

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the super fluidity of super cooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the Parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly known scientists in the world.

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[sweatpants1212]

@pepomk123 Except no, its not a "F**k you!" It's the opposite of that! It's a "F**k me!" A "F**k us!" It's about distinguishing the questions that can possibly be answered from the questions that can not be. "Why" questions can't be answered, because knowledge ultimately depends on observation! If we keep asking "why," as Feynman demonstrates, then at the end of the day we still don't know "why" things are happening, we can only say THAT they are happening. It's about accepting one's mortality!

[LoveMattersMost]

My definition of hell? You're late for a flight, and you pull your car over to ask a stranger on the sidewalk, "Which way is the airport?"-that stranger is Feynman. Haha!

[otakucode]

"Why" questions are code. They are code for "the person asking the question doesn't understand the question they are asking" or "the person asking the question just wants to fight." Even "how" questions are a bit limited. Feynman was at a disadvantage because the concept of model-dependent realism wasn't reall around in his time. Now we know that any explanation has to be understood as a model of reality, and evaluating their 'truth' is really not the same as saying it is 'real.'

[fiesta181]

And now for something utterly fundamental!

[garshmanager]

I don't know who this guy is. but he seems to know how to use is brain very well :D

[ithrowfeces]

Fucking magnets, how do they work?

Sorry I just had to say it. :3

[paddym787]

He could of said I dont know. Then i would of asked him

why he did not know? Smashing guy, Just less coffiee might

help?

[lefthendrix]

just answer the question! this guy's favorite sound, is the sound of his own voice!

[Discipline07]

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

[itsabomberscope]

Sometimes when people ask why, what they really mean is how. I think the thing with magnets is that even if you can explain the physics behind it, magnets still seem like magic.

[ronocko]

@lookitsagrape1 You didnt understand the answers he gave did you?

[diabelek945]

Are you people deaf? He answered the question. Magnetism is caused by electrons spining in the same direction. So why ordinary matter like let's say wood stays not influenced?

-Because electrons spinning in many different direction make the force cancel out.