Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' 3: Rubber Bands

Physicist Richard Feynman thinks more about the 'jiggling' of atoms, and about rubber bands and how they 'work'... From the BBC TV series 'Fun to Imagine' (1983). You can now watch higher quality versions of some of these episodes at www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/

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Science & Technology

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• feynman
• science
• physics
• imagination
• fun
• explain
• atoms
• rubber
• bands
• heat
• cold
• jiggling

[mawd83]

I wish he was my science teacher in high school. I would have become a scientist instead of working in construction.

[devotedpupa]

Why is selena gomez a features video here?

[2eelShmeal]

I don't think it mattered what era he was born. He'd have been at the forefront of science in any age.

Good ol' Dick.

[HelterMcSkelter]

0:16 I love the twinkle in his eye. He just can't contain his amusement with elastic polymer behavior in rubber bands.

[w00td00t]

You know those 2D physics sandboxes? Like phun and such. I just imagine how excited this man would get when he saw some of the things people do with those programs.

Just look up "Phun Gas Law" on youtube and imagine Feynman's reaction to it.

Such a wonderful man. He's pretty much convinced me to dedicate my life to studying physics (I was unsure of whether I should study neurology or physics)

[Dimajo]

@mawd83 You can't help but become optimistic when you are listening to mr. Feynman so perhaps i sound somewhat childish, but is it really too late for you to become a scientist? Yes seven years is alot! perhaps you are too "old" ? you tell me, but then i suggest a science teacher be as inspirering as feynman, or perhaps even better. Is there anything more important than doing what makes you smile? But then again you can discard of all of this perhaps it is just a biproduct of feynmans enthusiasm

[hmspinaforethisisspa]

@mawd83 (continued) And I haven't stopped learning about science since. Am now on university-level biology and maths, and A-Level chemistry and physics - and am working at a highly reputable lab 6000 miles away from where I started. Please learn about science :) it's never too late to start - and there's so much joyous wonder to be discovered...

[hmspinaforethisisspa]

@mawd83 Please continue to study science in your spare time though! It's all just so WONDERFUL :) all you have to do is start right at the bottom and gently work your way up at your own pace. I did just that myself - my uni course is psychology, but after watching a video of ferrofluid and lamenting that, because of my academic choices, I would never understand the miraculous mechanisms by which such stuff behaved, I thought "To hell with that!" and went and bought a couple GCSE science books.

[KaslarProductions]

0:28 You heard it here folks. Chains are kinky. =D

[pyrea17]

i learned about this on the slingshot channel. Amazing when you think about it!

[ftlqed]

I've watched this 20 times, a steel spring only works because its long, it is a rubber band, it only pulls back because it has necrosis of length. Necrosis is do to imobility, imotility, and tactility, just a mess. Then you give him 20-million dollars, wow, your so smart.

[episcophagus]

@episcophagus breaking - brakeing! Of course!