Thom B There are a lot of genuises, there are a lot of skilled educators. Its rare to get the two together but the freak magic of Feynman was he approached everything with genuine enthusiasm. Genius, intellectual accessibility and a sincere interest in going on the intellectual journey together. You can find geniuses, you can find teachers, once in a while you can find geniuses who can teach but good luck finding a genus who is not only a talented educator, but enthusiastic about what he does. That is a once-in-a-blue-moon kinda thing.
+Thom B the problem with 85% of high school/middle school teachers is that they haven't taken any science classes past high school... the 15% of other teachers are learning from people like Richard Feynmann. :(
Josh Giesbrecht the ball down the hill is more than just a simple metaphor. He is describing a potential energy curve (in one case gravatational in the other chemical), the system ultimatly seeks its lowest energy state with some bumps in between.
Thom wrong. We are all enlightend, we all actually know everything we need to know in order to survive on this world. The enthusiasm he has is because of one realisation: You actually are capable of understanding everything around you, and this is even a fun process, the thing is, we are told from our environmemt, and ourself, that we never need to or never will understand it. We all could explain lile him, but we never try. Do it, you may only help people and yourself!
Wow ... he looks like a child opening a Christmas gift. It's truly amazing to watch and listen to. Imagine how fun school would be, if teachers were like him.
Imagine how most teachers would be trained to teach like this, selected, competed for. The education industry was opened up to business competition to distribute their quality at scale and cost-effectively, which further naturally and gladly compensates them well. Privatize education. Privatization taking away the walls that insulate it from market forces. And market forces = peaceful societal evolution of ideas, processes, goods, and services. There is no way anyone can ever design a thing better in one shot than evolution, trial and error with mutation, can. Corollary: command economies are always doomed to fail eventually, either that or stagnate.
@@gwho The thing is, most people are not smart or clever enough to see things the way Feynman did. Training would not instill that quality in people, you likely have to be born with it and have it nurtured from an early age, like Feynman was.
@@nollix That's where I (mostly) disagree. Yes, Feynman was an exceptionally gifted individual who was naturally much smarter than most people but that doesn't mean you couldn't train people to use his methods of explaining. The so-called "Feynman method" is actually a pretty effective method of both understanding. What a lot of people don't realize is that natural intelligence is by far not the only thing that determines how well we are able to learn things, there's also the methods we use which play a huge part in the process, as well as the fact that the circumstances under which one is raised do gravely influence the intelligence of still growing human being.
I know you posted this a year ago and probably forgot about it, in highschool i was a fucker and did shit in all of my classes except for physics and that is because my physics teacher was like this, I attribute him as one of the main reasons I am now working on getting into graduate program for physics. Always kept everyone in the class interested by explaining the concepts in such engaging ways, thank you nilson for all your teachings and always being happy to see me come to class
School is only fun because the student knows in his guts he's going to remain alive longer than the apparently superior instructor. It's overwhelmingly a perverse mutual weariness and meneumonic of death. That's why chad gets the cheerleader too. Everybody's coping all the time. As young say nowadays, 'cope harder'.
I have studied science for 16 years and yet he summed it all up so beautifully in less than 5 minutes. His students were the luckiest people in the world.
This explanation combined with the fact that "heat" really is just how fast the molecules are moving/bouncing off it's surrounding gives a great visual image on what it really means to set something on fire, a piece of wood doesn't just ignite by itself, you need to somehow transfer enough energy to it so that the atoms average kinetic energy increases which then makes it possible for the carbon and oxygen atom to snap together. Imagine if teachers taught science this way to very young children, this way of simplifying concepts is truly amazing.
Throughout my entire live I have never seen such honest intent and joy out of someone explaining, especially physics. This is my favorite video of all time, it sparks with joy and always motivates me whilst creating a smile on my face. Whenever I'm down I just watch this, cry a little and then get back to live, knowing there are curious and happy people out there who thrive to become the best of themselves and helping others. He is a true idol. Thank you Richard Feynman for who you were, may you rest in peace and be gratefully for your contribution to humanity.
But you do realise you may play the visual and auditory tracks separately, right? Albeit, it might not be the most conducive means of enlightenment. Emphasis is in 'might'.
Every time I sit around the fire drinking and smoking and enjoying life with my friends..I think of this..I'd of loved to of sat around a campfire having a beer with Feynman having this explained to me for the thousandth time..
I watched this video a few times already, but as an undergraduate student of physics and chemistry, I find increasingly more joy in Feynman's explanations ❤️
Scientists aren't known for adding fun to anything. Their product is mostly destructive. Culture is the coping result. You know why we're going to Mars? To get away. Won't work. We'll follow.
You can't miss the overwhelming realization of that catastrophe being Fire! The joy in his eyes is there to see and feel. I absolutely love him. I have no background in quantum physics but I would love to read his books and explore it just for fun some day. Such an inspirational guy! Wow.
I've probably watched this video more then ten times. I feel this desire to memorize every syllable, so that I may regurgitate it at any point to anyone.
That's the opposite of Feynman's method of understanding... try to understand the whole thing, don't just learn everything word by word, then you'll be able to enchant other people with your own knowledge :)
This is the first clip I have ever seen of Feynman. I haven't felt this way since the first time I saw a Carl Sagan video (only about 2 years ago). Something has happened here and now that can never be taken away from me and cannot be undone......I HAVE LEARNED! I, a 23 yo construction laborer who left high school at 16, have found another teacher. A teacher for myself and my 2 boys (ages 3 and 4), just as Dr. Sagan is.
It's explained so that a child can understand it too. It's said that if you truly understand something you need to be able to explain it in the simplest way. That's why it's called the Feynmen-Method.
not to take anything away from the awesomeness of this video, but as a 'curiosity' it should be mentioned that the O2 comes from the H2O and not from the CO2 -when we're discussing trees. thanks for sharing the video. the experiment responsible for our 'new' understanding goes like this: we take a heavy isotope of oxygen called 18Oxygen. this will be our tracer. feed the tree in two steps w/ both H2O and CO2 containing the (18)O isotope. the results show like this: H2(18)O + CO2 = (18)O2 H2O+C(18)O2 = O2 the conclusion is that the O2 end product must originate from water and not from the carbon dioxide. *the experiment is simple, but the actual photosynthesis process is more complex... { 2H20 -> 4 e- + 4 H+ + O2 }
lllllll though Feynman was a fine man, and a noble Nobel winner, his strength was physics not chemistry science is like religion btw ... the big three biology, chemistry, and physics EGOS are all scrambling like madman to nail a theory of everything from their POV I see FAIL FAIL FAIL just like the big three in western religion who try to exert their BS POV on others christians, muslims, jews are also a FAIL FAIL FAIL the day ALL six of these CULTures get on the same page is the day I stop referring to UA-cam as EWETube ye are sheeple
+Archangel Raphael What? Biology, Chemistry, and Physics have always taken results from one another and grown out of each other. Perhaps undergraduates may squabble over which field is more pure (physics), more useful (chemistry), or the best for helping people (biology); but no actual scientists hold up these silly beliefs. Physics gave birth to Chemistry, which gave birth tho Biology. Biologists and Physicists work together in Biophysics. There also exists Biochemistry and Physical chemistry. Meanwhile your "big three" religions are murdering each other on massive scales and not furthering human knowledge in any way.
you clearly are not engaging folks who have theories of everything? duh show me where Einstein in the last 50 years of his life after peaking as a young man, linked chemistry, biology, AND psychology in his pursuit of a GUT or SuperGUT or a ToE? sorry but the EGO is kept in check by all it does not know the closest Einstein came to understanding what "consciousness" is, was his 'spooky action at a distance' denial ... PhDUH and guess what? he was dead wrong and this was proved after he was dead IF you are going to respond Christo Keller to my genius, can I ask if you have a valid library card?
+Archangel Raphael He never attempted to do so because he wasn't a psychophysicist or physical chemist. He was a theoretical physicist who specialized in his own field of relativity, which is completely disjoint from any other field other than physics. Likewise, he did not attempt to criticize any other field or laugh at them for being less pure as you seem to think. Regardless, he *did* just flat-out not believe in QM even when it was shown to follow experiment.
It takes one kind of mind to understand the processes of chemistry and physics that go into a tree and the combustion of it, it takes another mind entirely to stand back and improvise an explanation the way Feynman does. He always seems to look at things from the POV of a curious alien from a completely alien experience. This is a great tool, and helps you realize that almost nothing is mundane - there's an interesting story everywhere.
My 3 year old asks her questions in the same way and I think that those simple questions that on her level require the answers to be simple too, is the key. We as a society think that there is a certain way to address a certain age group. Feynman is being interviewed by an adult and yet my 3 year old can understand his explanation. On the other hand we label our audiences and we prejudge there level of understanding and the level of complexity they expect from us. And yet we all get childlike exited by giggling atoms and trees growing from thine air.
Absolutely great - this is what science is about; explaining these everyday things so accurately and simply that it makes you feel like it's almost obvious, like you wonder how come you didn't understand it earlier. Feynman's the man...
Yes, that's what he said: the water in soil comes from the surroundings (implcitly, rain). Only minerals are used, the rest is water and carbon dioxide and sunlight interacting. The ''stored Sun'' concept was mindblowing for its simplicity!
After 24 years, the truth that shocked me? The tree never grow from ground, I thought the water we pour on a ground & sunlight was only a reason to grow but now I come to know it's only because of carbon present in atmosphere
@angel2rx Its a lot simpler than you think. All of the trees were probably cut around the same time, therefore the new trees are all the same size. Other than that extra tall trees get cut down by windstorms
I have a probably stupid question. He said that the sun is what separates the O from the C. But, earlier he said that it takes heat to bring the C and O together to create the fire. Did he mean that sunlight was warm enough to separate them and that it takes more heat than that to have them bump into each other? So, in a way, sunlight "knows" exactly how much heat is necessary to keep live going? Or I completely misunderstood everything? Thanks!
3:52 That's a pretty point, "all the oxygen made by these trees...". It almost gives the oxygen production by nature a karmic balance/energy. I definitely see why people thought he had an intuitive understanding of how the world works.
They say simplicity is genius. School teachers should watch and learn from this man. Imagine the kid's imaginations being stoked by this approach.
Thom B There are a lot of genuises, there are a lot of skilled educators. Its rare to get the two together but the freak magic of Feynman was he approached everything with genuine enthusiasm. Genius, intellectual accessibility and a sincere interest in going on the intellectual journey together. You can find geniuses, you can find teachers, once in a while you can find geniuses who can teach but good luck finding a genus who is not only a talented educator, but enthusiastic about what he does. That is a once-in-a-blue-moon kinda thing.
+Thom B the problem with 85% of high school/middle school teachers is that they haven't taken any science classes past high school... the 15% of other teachers are learning from people like Richard Feynmann. :(
+James May
schools = kid jail
schools teach knowledge that the gov. wants them to learn.
rofl what!?
Imagine kids that really want to be learning from normal teachers too...
the problem is scientists who see religion as total bunk
therefore science is in danger of becoming a religion
I just learned exactly how fire works in 2 minutes. The ball over the hill explanation was genius.
Josh Giesbrecht you learned an extremely basic description of it tbh.
Josh Giesbrecht the ball down the hill is more than just a simple metaphor. He is describing a potential energy curve (in one case gravatational in the other chemical), the system ultimatly seeks its lowest energy state with some bumps in between.
THIS is how much government-run public school sucks
fireworks... hehehe
When a NEET thinks he accomplished something by listening to an ELI5 explanation
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Feynman's enthusiasm and wonderment; this would be the natural state of each and every human being, if we were so properly enlightened.
+Thom Harrison that is the best comment on Feynman that i have ever read :) You do feel there is a bit of him in all of us...
wow.. what a world it might be!! No one will care abt money then and all will be doing what interest one!!.. but impossible..
Lol I actually have this same enthusiasm once I get going, so he still lives on. Sadly, I was born the year before he died.
Thom wrong.
We are all enlightend, we all actually know everything we need to know in order to survive on this world.
The enthusiasm he has is because of one realisation: You actually are capable of understanding everything around you, and this is even a fun process, the thing is, we are told from our environmemt, and ourself, that we never need to or never will understand it.
We all could explain lile him, but we never try.
Do it, you may only help people and yourself!
I like this comment; some people however, are miserably stupid and incapable of such wonder.
Wow ... he looks like a child opening a Christmas gift. It's truly amazing to watch and listen to.
Imagine how fun school would be, if teachers were like him.
Imagine how most teachers would be trained to teach like this, selected, competed for.
The education industry was opened up to business competition to distribute their quality at scale and cost-effectively, which further naturally and gladly compensates them well.
Privatize education. Privatization taking away the walls that insulate it from market forces. And market forces = peaceful societal evolution of ideas, processes, goods, and services. There is no way anyone can ever design a thing better in one shot than evolution, trial and error with mutation, can.
Corollary: command economies are always doomed to fail eventually, either that or stagnate.
@@gwho The thing is, most people are not smart or clever enough to see things the way Feynman did. Training would not instill that quality in people, you likely have to be born with it and have it nurtured from an early age, like Feynman was.
@@nollix That's where I (mostly) disagree. Yes, Feynman was an exceptionally gifted individual who was naturally much smarter than most people but that doesn't mean you couldn't train people to use his methods of explaining. The so-called "Feynman method" is actually a pretty effective method of both understanding. What a lot of people don't realize is that natural intelligence is by far not the only thing that determines how well we are able to learn things, there's also the methods we use which play a huge part in the process, as well as the fact that the circumstances under which one is raised do gravely influence the intelligence of still growing human being.
I know you posted this a year ago and probably forgot about it, in highschool i was a fucker and did shit in all of my classes except for physics and that is because my physics teacher was like this, I attribute him as one of the main reasons I am now working on getting into graduate program for physics. Always kept everyone in the class interested by explaining the concepts in such engaging ways, thank you nilson for all your teachings and always being happy to see me come to class
School is only fun because the student knows in his guts he's going to remain alive longer than the apparently superior instructor.
It's overwhelmingly a perverse mutual weariness and meneumonic of death.
That's why chad gets the cheerleader too.
Everybody's coping all the time. As young say nowadays, 'cope harder'.
Easy to imagine, hard to forget. Thats how knowledge should be spread.
dope poem
That's precisely how it does.
I have studied science for 16 years and yet he summed it all up so beautifully in less than 5 minutes.
His students were the luckiest people in the world.
I love this man 😍🙏😍🙏
This video summed up all of what you learned? Who is to be blamed here😆
"I gotta stop somewhere ill leave you something to imagine"----DR.Richard Feymann
I could watch Mr Fenyman forever without getting bored.
Sadly, your entertainment bores most deadly.
@@fernandoferreira6293 that makes zero sense.
that smile at the end.
+tati makina Yap. Pure and innocent delight.
A feet tall Cheshire rabbit.
You must be a new new here.
"I gotta stop somewhere..." giggles like a kid in a candy store
The reason we all love Richard Feynman!
How cute he was 💖
meh.. I liked his explanation more than the giggles
@@calholli perhaps then, you're missing my point. That's ok though :)
Unanimity denied.
But the giggles were fundamental explaining themselves.
This explanation combined with the fact that "heat" really is just how fast the molecules are moving/bouncing off it's surrounding gives a great visual image on what it really means to set something on fire, a piece of wood doesn't just ignite by itself, you need to somehow transfer enough energy to it so that the atoms average kinetic energy increases which then makes it possible for the carbon and oxygen atom to snap together. Imagine if teachers taught science this way to very young children, this way of simplifying concepts is truly amazing.
There would be no religions or beliefs. And how intensely our lives could be!
God forbid. We'd have been engulfed in too big fires already.
You meant boring.
Throughout my entire live I have never seen such honest intent and joy out of someone explaining, especially physics. This is my favorite video of all time, it sparks with joy and always motivates me whilst creating a smile on my face. Whenever I'm down I just watch this, cry a little and then get back to live, knowing there are curious and happy people out there who thrive to become the best of themselves and helping others. He is a true idol. Thank you Richard Feynman for who you were, may you rest in peace and be gratefully for your contribution to humanity.
Wood is carbon, water, minerals, and stored sunlight, just waiting to be released. That is awesome.
A sun battery.
Why are you anxious to die?
this is amazing beyond description
Wood is a sun battery. .. there, I just described it.
Thanks, Lynch.
I could listen to him forever.
This is incorrect, since he is dead.
So could the NSA.
Incorrect. That's incidental. Life extension could've been achieved.
The joy in his voice as he explains the phenomenon of fire!
Far more joy could be obtained from refraining from using the flamethrower.
I can't watch porn, because I want to listen to this guy.
@@HarshRajAlwaysfree Lol
But you do realise you may play the visual and auditory tracks separately, right? Albeit, it might not be the most conducive means of enlightenment. Emphasis is in 'might'.
I wish I heard of this guy a long time ago
Every time I sit around the fire drinking and smoking and enjoying life with my friends..I think of this..I'd of loved to of sat around a campfire having a beer with Feynman having this explained to me for the thousandth time..
Sad. Had I any such setting I'd most definitely be attempting to getting laid.
I watched this video a few times already, but as an undergraduate student of physics and chemistry, I find increasingly more joy in Feynman's explanations ❤️
"Massive Wood"
Adjusts Belt
Mass of wood.
@@Kitties_are_pretty i dont think he's still alive tho
Yes, the world is awesome if you look at it with the eyes of a scientist
Scientists aren't known for adding fun to anything. Their product is mostly destructive. Culture is the coping result. You know why we're going to Mars?
To get away.
Won't work. We'll follow.
Talking about a lovable character. How delightful is his way, wonderful. Thanks!
It isn't just about imagining the thing I also enjoy hearing him talk about things and watching the joy spread across his face when he does so.
You can't miss the overwhelming realization of that catastrophe being Fire! The joy in his eyes is there to see and feel. I absolutely love him. I have no background in quantum physics but I would love to read his books and explore it just for fun some day. Such an inspirational guy! Wow.
I don't buy it. Try harder.
Never thought of it like that. This man had a great way of thining about things and wording them. No wonder he was such a good scientist
The two initial words sufficed.
Yes you definitely left me something to imagine which is how smart and percise you were. 🙂
I've probably watched this video more then ten times. I feel this desire to memorize every syllable, so that I may regurgitate it at any point to anyone.
save your energy and go read my friend.
That's the opposite of Feynman's method of understanding... try to understand the whole thing, don't just learn everything word by word, then you'll be able to enchant other people with your own knowledge :)
Ohhh the irony. I love it
I never get bored of this explanation.
Big Feynman and his diagrams brought me here no wonder he won a nobel prize, man is a genius, stored sunlight never thought of it like that.
The great explainer, could listen for hours. And have!
That just tickled my brain in the most awesome way. God I love hearing Feynman talk!
I learned more about photosynthesis and fire in this 5 minute video than in my class. Thanks, Feynman
This is the first clip I have ever seen of Feynman. I haven't felt this way since the first time I saw a Carl Sagan video (only about 2 years ago). Something has happened here and now that can never be taken away from me and cannot be undone......I HAVE LEARNED! I, a 23 yo construction laborer who left high school at 16, have found another teacher. A teacher for myself and my 2 boys (ages 3 and 4), just as Dr. Sagan is.
Learning cannot be self evidential.
Ack. I "knew" all of that, but it somehow still blows my mind to hear it all together.
I watch these interviews at least three times a year. He is such a wonder full speaker.
Not trying to kill anyone's mood here, but this is basic chemistry 101. Feynman just describes it with utter perfection and wonderment.
It's explained so that a child can understand it too. It's said that if you truly understand something you need to be able to explain it in the simplest way. That's why it's called the Feynmen-Method.
You could see the sparkle in his eyes like a child, and how excited he is about life! He never got old!
Yet, who is a magnet to the most attractive? Hint: not Gandhi. I meant, when alive...
That pleasant feeling of listening to a fairytale as a child sprinkled with so much knowledge.
What an inspiration to study science! This love is so contaminating!
I love how he gets all giddish and excited , he's genuinely fascinated
Holy crap. So trees are just sun storage.
wow im studying engineering and i wished my professor would explain thinks like that... I never thought about this what a mind blow 😀
not to take anything away from the awesomeness of this video, but as a 'curiosity' it should be mentioned that the O2 comes from the H2O and not from the CO2 -when we're discussing trees.
thanks for sharing the video.
the experiment responsible for our 'new' understanding goes like this:
we take a heavy isotope of oxygen called 18Oxygen. this will be our tracer.
feed the tree in two steps w/ both H2O and CO2 containing the (18)O isotope.
the results show like this:
H2(18)O + CO2 = (18)O2
H2O+C(18)O2 = O2
the conclusion is that the O2 end product must originate from water and not from the carbon dioxide.
*the experiment is simple, but the actual photosynthesis process is more complex... { 2H20 -> 4 e- + 4 H+ + O2 }
lllllll
though Feynman was a fine man, and a noble Nobel winner, his strength was physics not chemistry
science is like religion btw ... the big three biology, chemistry, and physics EGOS are all scrambling like madman to nail a theory of everything from their POV
I see FAIL FAIL FAIL
just like the big three in western religion who try to exert their BS POV on others
christians, muslims, jews are also a FAIL FAIL FAIL
the day ALL six of these CULTures get on the same page is the day I stop referring to UA-cam as EWETube
ye are sheeple
lllllll Do you have a source where we could read more about this? Thanks.
+Archangel Raphael What? Biology, Chemistry, and Physics have always taken results from one another and grown out of each other. Perhaps undergraduates may squabble over which field is more pure (physics), more useful (chemistry), or the best for helping people (biology); but no actual scientists hold up these silly beliefs. Physics gave birth to Chemistry, which gave birth tho Biology. Biologists and Physicists work together in Biophysics. There also exists Biochemistry and Physical chemistry.
Meanwhile your "big three" religions are murdering each other on massive scales and not furthering human knowledge in any way.
you clearly are not engaging folks who have theories of everything?
duh show me where Einstein in the last 50 years of his life after peaking as a young man, linked chemistry, biology, AND psychology in his pursuit of a GUT or SuperGUT or a ToE?
sorry but the EGO is kept in check by all it does not know
the closest Einstein came to understanding what "consciousness" is, was his 'spooky action at a distance' denial ... PhDUH and guess what?
he was dead wrong
and this was proved after he was dead
IF you are going to respond Christo Keller to my genius, can I ask if you have a valid library card?
+Archangel Raphael He never attempted to do so because he wasn't a psychophysicist or physical chemist. He was a theoretical physicist who specialized in his own field of relativity, which is completely disjoint from any other field other than physics. Likewise, he did not attempt to criticize any other field or laugh at them for being less pure as you seem to think.
Regardless, he *did* just flat-out not believe in QM even when it was shown to follow experiment.
Isn't he adorable? His enthusiasms simply rubbs of and makes you curious to find out more.
Pure genius this man!
"Aaah Life! Life has some mysterious force!"
"No. The sun is shining."
"It's a sort of 'stored sun' that's coming out when you burn a log" I love that quote
He's not quoting.
@@fernandoferreira6293 Quotes can be descriptive of reality?
It takes one kind of mind to understand the processes of chemistry and physics that go into a tree and the combustion of it, it takes another mind entirely to stand back and improvise an explanation the way Feynman does.
He always seems to look at things from the POV of a curious alien from a completely alien experience. This is a great tool, and helps you realize that almost nothing is mundane - there's an interesting story everywhere.
My 3 year old asks her questions in the same way and I think that those simple questions that on her level require the answers to be simple too, is the key.
We as a society think that there is a certain way to address a certain age group. Feynman is being interviewed by an adult and yet my 3 year old can understand his explanation. On the other hand we label our audiences and we prejudge there level of understanding and the level of complexity they expect from us. And yet we all get childlike exited by giggling atoms and trees growing from thine air.
Psychologically debatable. You love him, you say; I say you fear him, instead. Physicists are the most dangerous men known, bar none.
I hadn't heard this segment or clip before. This was really good.
Absolutely great - this is what science is about; explaining these everyday things so accurately and simply that it makes you feel like it's almost obvious, like you wonder how come you didn't understand it earlier. Feynman's the man...
Science's aim is profit to the powerful.
Thats awesome how simple he made this very comlicated and complex topic!!
the excitement on his face when his talking about this is infectious. his like a child in a toy shop. I wish I had teachers like this in school.
That'd be truly creepy.
4:39: I will leave you something to imagine.
Bold of him to assume my imagination can decipher that.
I wish we could clone Richard Feynman a million times over. The world needs more people of such brilliant clarity and sheer intellectual tenacity.
+David Bills Richard Feynman helped to create the atom bomb :-(
Impossible. Murder rampage would inevitably result before the experiment reached a dozen copies. Tops.
interesting fact: the oxygen trees release back into the air comes from water not from carbondioxide
Yes, that's what he said: the water in soil comes from the surroundings (implcitly, rain). Only minerals are used, the rest is water and carbon dioxide and sunlight interacting.
The ''stored Sun'' concept was mindblowing for its simplicity!
the lesson i learned the hard way: never let your education step between you and your learning
A physicist explains the biology of photosynthesis lol... Beautiful teaching by Feynman
He did not leave even a dent in the surface of all the biology behind photosynthesis
Biology is to physics like astrology to astronomy.
Damn, Richard... please explain some more.
If this man was my teacher, I'd have been a grade A student. I love him.
Awesome!!! Feynman is a legend, with the help of his method, everything is possible
The way he explains, it’s like a poem.
After 24 years, the truth that shocked me? The tree never grow from ground, I thought the water we pour on a ground & sunlight was only a reason to grow but now I come to know it's only because of carbon present in atmosphere
Unless omniscient the amount you don't know equals everything minus your own faulty impressions on your 'self'.
So, at best, not much.
@angel2rx Its a lot simpler than you think. All of the trees were probably cut around the same time, therefore the new trees are all the same size. Other than that extra tall trees get cut down by windstorms
Love his enthusiasm, jiggly atoms!!! :D :D
He is the Bob Ross of Science...
I can't love this guy enough!
Literally correct.
They taught me in school that fire is the result of 157x + 4816y and 10 more of these, but i forgot.
I prefer Richard Feynmans explanation.
Lovely to listen and watch !
I have a probably stupid question. He said that the sun is what separates the O from the C. But, earlier he said that it takes heat to bring the C and O together to create the fire. Did he mean that sunlight was warm enough to separate them and that it takes more heat than that to have them bump into each other? So, in a way, sunlight "knows" exactly how much heat is necessary to keep live going? Or I completely misunderstood everything? Thanks!
wow that blew my mind!
this is what kids need to FEEL and SEE
#ALWAYS ASK WHY
Why?
I couldn't help but smile near the end. I wonder where I would have been if I saw this video a lot more earlier.
Here.
"I got to stop somewhere. I leave you something to imagine." [smile]
I wish I had this guy for a physics teacher in High School...
That'd make you awfully old.
@@fernandoferreira6293It would be worth it.
I love this man soo much....
It's sad that I'm seeing this video for the first time at the age of 36. This should be taught in schools!
Or in kindergartens. Wouldn't. Change. A. Bit.
AMAZING VIDEO 😍😍😍😍
This is an extremely layman and awesome scientific explanation. It's beautifully LAYMAN.
This is pure art. Human brain art! I love this man
That pure laugh in the end though
Thank you
" Just a way of looking at it "
I wish I knew English when I was young and had access to videos like this.
Onomatopoeia in porn is sufficiently accessible in most languages.
He was just a curious kid in a grown up's body. Great videos.
We need more teachers like him
Stored sun shines out of the log! :O
+Anton Zuykov yes it is
basically every energy source we use is from the sun, some are from the earth it self
His enthusiasm is amazing. Fucking genius.
The joy.... geez
I'm blown away. WOW.
3:52 That's a pretty point, "all the oxygen made by these trees...". It almost gives the oxygen production by nature a karmic balance/energy. I definitely see why people thought he had an intuitive understanding of how the world works.
So the heat and light of the fire is "stored Sun". I won't ever forget that. Amazing!
People: "Trees don't appear out of thin air!"
Feynman: "Well, actually ..."
Air ,water and sun. Beautiful nature it is.
A shame for us to ignore it all the time.
Best comment.
You don't go out (to beaches, at least) much, I take it.
damn I love this guy.....teachers watch and learn
great stuff
Wish there was a science teacher like him when I was at school.
Afraid that'd be detrimental to society.
If we wanted true, we'd have it.
Oh we all know how fascinating science can be 😱 thats so adorable 😊
Joyful nuke.
I’d love to hear Feynman on the “Tide goes in tide goes out. You can’t explain that”
He looks so damm happy while explaining it 😍
Wow, I smiled all the way through this...he's created a new equation of; UA-cam + science + heart = happy face 😄