He cheated on his wife with Las Vegas showgirls while at Los Alamos. While she was dying of cancer. (see "You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feinman") He had access to radioactive material . Do the math.
@@ThisDoctorKnows I developed a passion for the truth. I left myths and stories behind. I opened my mind to wonder. Why are things as they are? He helped me to realize science has but one objective, the truth. I never turned back.
Same here… as a young physics student at MIT in 1968, his writings stood out from other scientists. He was a mean conga player, too. I eventually became a film composer, so always loved that about him…
@devstuff2576 intelligence is intelligence. You can be intelligent and frustrated, intelligent and arrogant or humble. It doesn’t matter. I do get frustrated when some people don’t care about the why. Idk about Feynman :)
One of the most delightful and intelligent scientists during the last 100 years is Dr. Richard Feynman. His ways of communication, the way he delivers scientific and philosophical facts and hypothesis is the best I’ve ever seen.
Theres another great man, Bronowski (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski), that believes science is the construction of a controlled vocabulary in order to understand the world. It is awesome to assume both are right in its own sense.
i have a terrible memory for names, introduce yourself, shake hands, already forgotten your name, i console myself with the excuse i won't forget your face, that i give more credence to who you are rather than the label, it's an excuse that keeps me at liberty.
This is funny. I watched this video two, maybe three years ago, and just now I wanted to find it again so I typed some keywords. You know what I found? Well beside this video, the top results were all sorts of people asking versions of this question: "Why was Feynman against brushing teeth?" It's funny, but hopefully people helped them out.
Richard Feynman, the genius that he was, had the singular ability to realize that perspectives and points of view give us a window into all of the alternate possibilities that may exist. This is the definition of genius.
obliviously, history and science has taught us, the impossible is possible over and over again. We make it all up how we perceive, but feelings are still the greatest mystery.
Rene M some things are factually impossible. unless you can change gravity you will always fall. unless you move, you will be run over. not everything is possible. there are limitations
Only enlightened mind I have seen on screen. Just no negativity, pouring bliss into each moment out of sheer joy for knowledge. Knowledge often suffers from arrogance, NDT is an example, but Feynman cut through that to the other side. He is contended with what he has done, free of need, becoming a visual manifestation of the true meaning of success and human experience. I wish more people learn from him and get inspired.
Ever time he speaks about his father, it intrigues me to no end. "What an amazing person he was", i would think. I would also wonder if could ever be a great father like him so, i too could make my son think like Feynman. As i could also walk side by side a great man and to say he is my son would be my greatest achievement.
I agree with you 100%. Watching the video like others, you can't help but see how much of an influence Feynman's father had as his mentor. Had he grown up fatherless, perhaps he would have discovered his talents through poker games, or excelled in business rather than something that betters all of humanity. Its interesting to wonder the potential geniuses (even ourselves) walking the streets, with the right variables / guidance I'm sure it can be common.
Absolutely not, not because he's not a great thinker, in the contrary, but because if we all would strive to think in a specific way, there would be a lack of diversity in the way problems are tackled, which would lead to less problems solved, because the problems "out there" sometimes require the thinking patterns of people deviating from the norm or what's generally considered "what humans should think like".
If i would have the chance to talk to anyone who has ever lived, Feynman would propably be the one.. just the way he sees things from a different perspective is fascinating. And he never seemed to be tired of explaining his views.. and also one of the greatest explainers of science to the common people.
Richard Feynman is a magnificent orator when it comes to quantum mechanics; primarily using metaphors and analogies instead of physics jargon, so to masses can comprehend the ambiguity, uncertainty and unpredictability of the quantum world. I've been reading up a-lot on quantum entanglement, the complementarity principle and the theory of uncertainty. The schrodinger's cat experiment is an intriguing analogy to explain the superposition paradox between particles.
Much of my success in business can be traced to when I read his two non-technical books, and had my eyes opened as to how one should one's mind. Truly a great man, and deeply missed. Seems to me like America isn't producing enough of this kind of intellectual any more.
Trying to answer questions is a good thing. When I was younger (I must've been 10 or 11) I remember watching a documentary on rockets and space travel. Where they talked about how having to lug your propellant with you decreased your performance (the tyranny of the rocket equation). I didn't have much knowledge of physics at the time, but I remember trying to solve the problem by drawing a picture of a rocket which would use the very small amount of gas and dust that is present in space, and accelerate it using magnets out the other end. I then found out that this is the basis of a Bussard ramjet, a type of propulsion proposed in 1960. I was by no means particularly intelligent, I am considered fairly average in school, I just thought about the problem and tried to fit together the rest of my knowledge to make it work.
Jeff Vader I think my mind is a significantly dumbed down version of Feynman’s. Pretty sure I think the same way but with a crappier processor. Maybe you’re the same! There can probably be only a few ways the mind is wired to interact with the world. I think a good comedian’s mind has to be Feynmanesque too. Anyway...that dude was awesome.
Amazing how people truly do live with a computer in their heads, and anyone can recognize a problem, and develop a slightly different solution. everyone today has what Feinman would regard as an amazingly complex supercomputer in our pockets and can find any point of view and solutions, but introduces infinitely more questions and problems for us to solve. Sometimes I wonder what fun Feinman would have with google, but WE have the tools, and he’d want this generation to discover these questions for ourselves.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Watching these sorts of interviews with Feynman when I was a boy greatly inspired me.I have taken his advice in my life, and guess what? Thinking for yourself doesn't make you very popular!
I had a very good physics teacher that would answer a question the same way. Never a direct answer to the question but a proposition for you to think more about the question. At first I thought my teacher was arrogant, but later I understood they were the complete opposite. My teacher had faith that I could come to a better understanding. My teacher is not here any more but has changed my world view and helped me to use physics as a tool that pays my bills.
I have always felt connected with the way this great mind used his intellect to explain things. I'm almost tempted to say we have similar ways of looking at this wonderful universe, my iq may not be as high as his but I have been able to relate to many of his insights and perspectives of looking at the world, and many of his videos have helped me embark in my own personal mental journeys to understand the universe a little better. I am very thankful to be alive at this moment in history were our understanding of ourselves has surpassed expectations yet we have only scratched the surface of the grand scale of what the universe is.
Feynman was such a treasure to humanity. The embodiment of the virtue of child-like curiousity and how it can change the world for the better if you only you're willing to appear a little foolish from time to time.
I disagree. Make science accessible, don't put it in the dark with all the nerds. We need interest in science from men and women to help build the world.
@1:38 "Testing creative ability" via recognizing problems and developing solutions to science that he was not yet exposed to yet, then verifying if he was correct via reviewing the existing science/math. @5:16 "to know what you know, and dont know." @6:00 "There's a way of looking at something anew, as if its something you never saw before for the first time. And asking questions about it as if you were different." This is how analyze for the fundamentals of something. To walk through the analytic process as if it's the first time seeing it and trying to understand the fundamentals of something from the ground up. Its a recreation of the model of something through your observable understanding of it. @6:56 "Maxwell put the equations together with the Faraday he formulated the equations mathematically with some model in his head and Dirac got his answer by just writing and guessing an equation and other people got their answers like in relativity got the idea by looking at principles of symmetry, Heisenberg got is quantum mechanics by thinking only about things you can measure." These have all been tried and now we're stuck so we have to use different methods than we used before because they've all been tried, and now we're stuck." Look to question the physical world with enthusiasm and curiosity in order to create scientific discovery.
He truly is both a genius. But also wise beyond his years. Someone with his intellect truly knows the perils of fooling yourself into believing something that isn’t true. This is something mankind will forever struggle with.
He was a truly unique human being with a unique and inspired point of view on anything and everything imaginable. To say he was a genius just doesn’t do it justice. From Mongolian throat singing to theoretical physics and beyond, he seems to be quaintly present in the ever-unfolding corners of my mind, and I’m sure countless others, too. That’s as close to immortality as a human being could get, at least for the time being.
I admit that I've wasted a lot of time on UA-cam, but when I see something like this, it reminds me of how good and useful it can be. So thank you! There is an abridged transcript of this show available here: calteches(dot)library(dot)caltech(dot)edu/35/2/PointofView.htm According to that page, the interview first aired in Great Britain in 1973. As noted below it was apparently produced in 1972, which would make Feynman, born in 1918, about 54 years old at the time.
I suggest reading the following article was written by Dr. Davidicus Wong from Vancouver and published on June 22, 2012: Love is the core of our lives. It is the purpose, passion and meaning of life. To love and be loved is the point of it all. Yet love, so important and central to our lives, is a complex experience and a confusing word. We mean different things and misunderstand each other when we say, "I love you." Love comes in many forms-as many as the number of humans that have ever lived. I see love as a potential spiritual experience-to see and be seen as we really are-beyond what we each appear to be. To love is to recognize the divine in another person, and with that recognition, dedication, compassion and caring flow naturally. To be loved this way is like coming home, finding your authentic self and discovering that you are not alone. Love takes us deeper into the self yet goes beyond self. It penetrates to the depths of the soul. We love the unique expression of the divine in the other, the other is no longer separate from us, and once that connection between you is experienced there can be no separation. Life is all about relationships, and love is the point of it all. Life is imperfect, we are all flawed, life is unpredictable, and we all make mistakes. We waste our time and energy, we stray from our paths, and we harm each other. Yet love makes it worthwhile and allows us to forgive others and ourselves. Unconditional love is an ideal form of love. It is the perfect, all forgiving love of parents for their children. But even the most devoted mother or father falls short of perfection. We may search our whole lives for the perfect soul mate-one whom we love without judgment or reservation, one who loves us the same perfect way, but we will never find that perfection because we are each human. We must accept and appreciate love just as we have received it in all its human imperfection. It is through us that love is received- and expressed. It is in our lives, through our actions, in our words and in our relationships that divine love is manifest. But, of course, we are human-imperfect, frail and fallible. We do not see clearly-ourselves or others. We love imperfectly and we do not fully appreciate the love that we receive. But that is how we experience love-divine love, unconditional love, compassion and grace-filtered by the passions and hunger of our bodies, clouded by our limited minds and nar-rowed by our little selves. We must not only love the ones we're with. We must accept the love we have been given. This morning, my thoughts began with a prayer of appreciation for love in my life-in the past and in the present, as I have received it, partly through the grace of the events and circumstances of my life and the gifts I have received but primarily through my important relationships. I am thankful for love- perfect and unconditional- as manifest and expressed in my imperfect relationships. I accept and appreciate that love as expressed by my wife in our long relationship, in her concern and care for me, our home and our children. I appreciate the love of each of my children, the experiences we have shared as they have grown and we have all learned, in shared adventures, challenges and memories, in the rituals and routine of our everyday lives that seem endless but are finite. I appreciate divine love through my relationships with my parents, each expressing love in their own ways, with my sister and with my brother. I am thankful for the love received and expressed in my deepest friendships. I am grateful for the gift of my work-and the opportunity to express unconditional love in the care of my patients. Dr. Davidicus Wong
Apparently so - but I feel not; you put your power in it (assign power to it) by naming and have all the power you give it in the terms you set it. Thus modern humanity is (significantly) trapped in its own model - like a mind being trapped in its own thinking. We could laugh of course - but the experience of this has a tragic element. In ancient times the 'name' meant the 'nature' and to recognize the nature of a thing is to open or activate the resonance within your own nature - and in a true sense you are then the field of relation as the movement or focus of its revealing to your asking - which is not between separate 'things' but a relational expression of 'one thing'. To take a name in vain would be to take it out of its relational context to serve a private agenda (vanity). This is all about magic spelling. I feel better to willingly align in relational integrity and not seek power over anything - so as to no become subject to what goes around, coming around. There must be stories about recognizing home is where or who we were all along. The desire to gain power OVER life/self/reality embodies the belief in a lack of power. The belief that we have it is from the reinforcing feedback of our experience. When my Mac freezes, I can do what I will with the mouse but the illusion of power through the interface is no longer supported. So within the parameters of a certain practicality it can seem reasonable to say we gain power over something - but if we really look at what is actually going on, we find something much more complex relative to what SEEMS simply self-evident because we have learned to think and see this way as our adaptation to the human world/experience. The usefulness of a model is to recognize the limits of its applicability AS a model or shortcut reference to a complex intuitive recognition - that could never be explicated completely in 'longhand' of linear verbal mental concept. Nor would we want a life so long as to pause so long to try to do so. It is very difficult to realize that we are so adapted and acclimatised to relating through a model (named world) that it operates by habit as relating TO the model - without actually making the connection. Forgive me if I rambled out of turn. I also like to uncover other ways of seeing that then release me from tram-tracks I would otherwise follow unknowing.
When I was expanding brackets I worked on a quick way to solve it. I discovered a formula and was a little dissapointed when I found out it was discovered it was the binomial formula. Now I'm not after watching this and I'm going back into studying maths and physics
Every kid invents the problem of the sum of the power of the integers - solves it and moves on to sex, drugs and rock and roll - Ricky was a late developer.
You need to brush your teeth to clear off the bulk of the plaque bacteria. During your sleep, you don't produce any slime/mucus/etc (hence the dry mouth when you wake up). Your mucus kills bacteria and limits their growth. So any plaque-bacteria that are in your mouth when you go to sleep will have free reign to grow during the night. Brushing before going to bed will limit their numbers and thus limit the damage that can be done. It also removes scraps of food residue, robbing the remaining bacteria of their food. In the morning, your breakfast delivers a massive amount of sugars into your mouth, allowing all the bacteria that grew during the night to grow/expand/multiply massively. Brushing in the morning halts this by removing the night-grown bacteria and thus protecting your teeth for the day. Keep in mind that dentists recommend that you never brush more than 3 times a day, and not withing 30 minutes of a meal, to prevent damaging the teeth. Also limit your meals to 7 per day maximum. Your teeth need time to rest/recover from any wear-and-tear damage.
I wonder if mouth breathing is a factor in dry mouth? Did you know that xylitol (birch sap derived) prevents the particular bacteria associated with decay. So this can be rinsed or brushed. There's a lot more to living cellular teeth. Acidic environs ferment as well as dissolve and lack of K2 can mean calcium is not correctly directed or placed where needed - and can be taken from bones and teeth for cellular needs while many forms of calcium are not bio-available as was presumed. IE pasteurised milk. Dentists are not trained in cellular nutrition or bacterial symbiosis - but have a captive revenue stream of needs arising from a way of life that generates dysfunction and disease. Weston Price was an interesting dentist! I pay extra for a soft brush but it is often so that we learn too late in life to effect a regenerative way of life from the outset - and of course the young are not inclined to take negative synergies into account until they manifest as some sort of pain, loss or crisis of health.
ALEXANDER1318 You’re mostly correct with your description. Might I add that the mucus you speak of is saliva. The reason the bacteria grows is because of the absence of the flushing and rinsing away action of the saliva during the day.
@@joverstreet24 Bacteria is growing according to the ph and nutient conditions - so is a 'zoo' of potentialities depending on the terrain - which is of course influenced by many factors. The role of 'bacteria' in the human (or any other) organism is vital to the function, immunity, cognisance etc. One way of looking is electrical - ie: PH where Acidic conditions promote different species.
The cells in the body - including bone cells - are constantly and periodically renewed and constituents recycled according to need - and according to functional transport delivery. Calcium can be carried and positioned by Vit K2 which operates like a parking attendant to calcium. However electrical forces also operate - PH is an electrical attribute. The transfer of ionic material is part of electrical circuit or current flow in fluids and gases.
That New York accent is so catchey. I remember once telling my mother that it is possible to have negative integers as well as positive integers and tried to explain my idea,, this was our at the age of 11 or 12, she just laughed at me and said that was stupid, it wasn't until high school then I realised that's exactly what you can do.
Feynman had a great way of speaking. Almost like a comedian, but of course we all know he wasn't. His intellect combined with his wonderful outlook and humbleness made him truly unique and special. I wish I could have met him.
Taking new perspectives always help shed new light on current questions. What he said about the problems in the book, and that the book says "New ideas needed" It's the same thing I do. And so do others. We should all to this though. With things like science and physics, social and political things as well.
Love Feynman; such incredible insight into - well everything. Wonder what he'd make of string or m theory? Always think it's cool how much of an influence his father was on him; encouraging Feynman to think for himself.
Ok you made a statement - but what about accepting that you made that statement as a persistence of a pattern, and that you can choose to take that statement and open it to another point of view? Then without changing anything you allow fresh information about your self and your relationship to your world. In a sense I am saying you could resonate in a like frequency rather than polarising a comparison and accepting it as a conclusion. You have your own talents, interests and joys. He was encouraged to challenge and be curious and so he was more able to follow what he found interesting. Society does not often teach us this, because we associate it with getting into trouble.
@@DannyPhantumm Oh, the irony... He spoke like a normal person who is trying to communicate an idea. You, on the other hand, sounded like what you claim him to be. Both the way you started your comment and the way you ended your comment are idiotic. Just giving you something to think about, A
@@DannyPhantumm You are indeed assuming - and your assumptions are your own cast and scripting. What I suggest you mean is that you would regard yourself in such a way if you were to behave as you judge me to be acting. If I had your background - perhaps I would write as you do. I have no desire to speak new wine into the old paradigm - and yet the phrasing of my written discourse is not my design so much as my attempt to clothe felt meanings in consciously accepted terms. I have no interest in changing anyone's viewpoint - so much as waking the nature of a viewpoint as a choice. In your awareness of your own choice are you free to choose anew or differently - but while defending or attacking a viewpoint you are in effect 'locked in'. Intelligence is to my appreciation innate - and everyone is embodying it as their current expression. Blocks to intelligence are in effect learned or acquired - not least of which is the self inflation of self-specialness set over and against others. If you see me setting my person over or others under - then point it out. I regard much casual language as corrupted by such insinuation and so I don't run it. If you can make a point without attacking or undermining another - why would you not? Perhaps because you will 'lose impact' and become irrelevant to the addiction to drama. I extend the ideas - as best I can - as an invitation to be considered as willingness and resonance move you. You are free to engage in them or use them to whatever purpose you are currently 'alive in' or accepting as true of you. Unlike a physical meeting, I set out in my preferred framework and terms. If we met I would listen and tune into a shared willingness and as a mutual resonance may then find a rich communication. I cant recall what the points were - as I am responding in a side box. But that you extend a communication to me is a touch of some resonant and some dissonant qualities. Like interference patterns in a vessica pisces. But we are each tuned somewhat differently - however - hello ;-)
Every one's face is fantastic CONSTRUCT OF MANY SUB CONSTRUCTS and every one may recognize and remember face but certainly may not remember the name is essence of this talk PERHAPS to understand and find something different than routine things in PRACTICE. Thanks.
I had been using his way of thinking and solving problems almost my entire life. And at that time I had no clue who he was. I really wish he were still alive and we can talk about certain subjects. He died in 88 and I was born 89. Just missed him.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, was the 1970's: when a science program could use a track by Jethro Tull as its theme music, and you could make a science documentary just by filming a scientist talking in his office. In this, we have not improved.
The glow in his face when he is talking about his work. Such passion!
+Brady Han Zhi Chou No, it's wind.
Brady Han upskirt
I'm like that when I talk about ladies bosoms
duping delight
He cheated on his wife with Las Vegas showgirls while at Los Alamos. While she was dying of cancer. (see "You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feinman") He had access to radioactive material . Do the math.
His passion is contagious. I wish everyone could be this glowing.
Then no-one would be.
cuz he is white
True. It makes me so happy just to see the kick he gets out of thinking.
JoelT7193 r/woooosh
Do u wish yourself son?
This humble man changed my life, quite dramatically at a very young ago. I am 76 now and his teachings have never left me.
@john tower Yep
Out of curiosity, how did he change your life? What is it about him that caused you to change your life?
@@ThisDoctorKnows I developed a passion for the truth. I left myths and stories behind. I opened my mind to wonder. Why are things as they are? He helped me to realize science has but one objective, the truth. I never turned back.
Same here… as a young physics student at MIT in 1968, his writings stood out from other scientists. He was a mean conga player, too. I eventually became a film composer, so always loved that about him…
He was not humble.
When I get frustrated with people "just doing their job" or not caring about the "why" I take a fresh breath of air listening to Feynman.
There is a supraordinate order of the ‘what for?’. ‘Why?’ is primitive; an ape can answer that question given enough brain capacity.
@devstuff2576 intelligence is intelligence. You can be intelligent and frustrated, intelligent and arrogant or humble. It doesn’t matter. I do get frustrated when some people don’t care about the why. Idk about Feynman :)
One of the most delightful and intelligent scientists during the last 100 years is Dr. Richard Feynman. His ways of communication, the way he delivers scientific and philosophical facts and hypothesis is the best I’ve ever seen.
"Names doesn't constitutes knowledge"....wow such a great teacher...still teaching me
Theres another great man, Bronowski (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski), that believes science is the construction of a controlled vocabulary in order to understand the world. It is awesome to assume both are right in its own sense.
Did you ignore the rest of what he said after that?
@@mm1k3y , could you please develop your point?
@@anders7979 it wasn't a point. It was a question. He goes on to say it does matter.
i have a terrible memory for names, introduce yourself, shake hands, already forgotten your name, i console myself with the excuse i won't forget your face, that i give more credence to who you are rather than the label, it's an excuse that keeps me at liberty.
How awesome was Feynman's old man!?
That's genius. The joy and humor he approaches questions with.
instant smile on my face when Feynman talks
When I listen Richard Feynman I just want to know stuff!
He is stuff
I agree.
Now kids, Uncle Richard wasn't saying it's okay not to brush your teeth.
This is funny. I watched this video two, maybe three years ago, and just now I wanted to find it again so I typed some keywords. You know what I found? Well beside this video, the top results were all sorts of people asking versions of this question: "Why was Feynman against brushing teeth?" It's funny, but hopefully people helped them out.
@@avrenna Why do people brush their teeth with sugar paste with an added neurotoxin?
you don't need to brush your teeth !, only the ones you want to keep !
@@binra3788 yeah also wash your hands even it was full
youre not my dad im never brushing my teeth again
Richard Feynman, the genius that he was, had the singular ability to realize that perspectives and points of view give us a window into all of the alternate possibilities that may exist. This is the definition of genius.
obliviously, history and science has taught us, the impossible is possible over and over again. We make it all up how we perceive, but feelings are still the greatest mystery.
yep
Rene M some things are factually impossible. unless you can change gravity you will always fall. unless you move, you will be run over. not everything is possible. there are limitations
it's called Science bad examples; however, yes, some things just are.
Rene M bad example to who ? You ? Fuck you
One of the smartest people to have lived... And a brilliant communicator. -A rare bird indeed.
what a jazzy intro! the bass and flute are so smooth, a taste of 70s funkyness
it is jethro tull
The music at 3:00 is excellent too, does anyone know who that is?
It's 5/4 by the way. Really hard to find
@@PtroclesNorfolk rhapsody number 1: ua-cam.com/video/5DeT3DkyXc8/v-deo.htmlsi=Lz5YC1jfDgXtfcBl
I watch his lectures on UA-cam over, and over, and over . . . He was certainly a shining light of humanity
His desire to educate people and show them how to become " intellectually healthier on their own fills me with human pride.
Only enlightened mind I have seen on screen. Just no negativity, pouring bliss into each moment out of sheer joy for knowledge. Knowledge often suffers from arrogance, NDT is an example, but Feynman cut through that to the other side. He is contended with what he has done, free of need, becoming a visual manifestation of the true meaning of success and human experience. I wish more people learn from him and get inspired.
How is NDT arrogant are you sure you are not projecting?
Ok that image of everyone on the "edge" brushing their teeth is amazing.
Ever time he speaks about his father, it intrigues me to no end. "What an amazing person he was", i would think. I would also wonder if could ever be a great father like him so, i too could make my son think like Feynman. As i could also walk side by side a great man and to say he is my son would be my greatest achievement.
The impact of this is quite enormous on young physics students. I guess it's our turn to think of new ideas.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
@@edithbannerman4 great
Wonderful. His way of processing and expressing information was so refreshing and captivating. He did see things from a different point of view.
I was literally brushing my teeth before bed watching this
Love Richard Feynman. Question everything! Somewhere he's still asking questions and searching for answers.
I will say, the music is a surprise and a very welcome one.
I'm a Tull fan.
I agree with you 100%. Watching the video like others, you can't help but see how much of an influence Feynman's father had as his mentor. Had he grown up fatherless, perhaps he would have discovered his talents through poker games, or excelled in business rather than something that betters all of humanity. Its interesting to wonder the potential geniuses (even ourselves) walking the streets, with the right variables / guidance I'm sure it can be common.
This man can think. A rare thing in this world.
Are you still alive since I noticed that this comment was made over 10 years ago?
@@cosmicwanderer891 😂
@@cosmicwanderer891 here you go confirming his statment
this man is having the source of knowledge hiding from you
@@cosmicwanderer891 lmao
Feynman, Tom Szasz, Mencken, Richard Mitchell. What pleasure they have brought to my life.
He's the greatest example of what a human should think like !!
Absolutely not, not because he's not a great thinker, in the contrary, but because if we all would strive to think in a specific way, there would be a lack of diversity in the way problems are tackled, which would lead to less problems solved, because the problems "out there" sometimes require the thinking patterns of people deviating from the norm or what's generally considered "what humans should think like".
@@Ruktiet In your eyes it's absolutely not
If i would have the chance to talk to anyone who has ever lived, Feynman would propably be the one.. just the way he sees things from a different perspective is fascinating. And he never seemed to be tired of explaining his views.. and also one of the greatest explainers of science to the common people.
Richard Feynman is a magnificent orator when it comes to quantum mechanics; primarily using metaphors and analogies instead of physics jargon, so to masses can comprehend the ambiguity, uncertainty and unpredictability of the quantum world. I've been reading up a-lot on quantum entanglement, the complementarity principle and the theory of uncertainty. The schrodinger's cat experiment is an intriguing analogy to explain the superposition paradox between particles.
Thank you for posting these videos.
"The most feared and original mind in modern physics!"
Wonderful :D
fear?
did you just use a an idiom wrongly?
@@Ray2311us Relax l, feared in this contested means respected and revered
Such a genuine person. Such a great role model.
Feynman was an inspiration to me as a kid.
He was the most clear thinking of scientists in the modern age, bar none.
And keeping delving deeper!
One of the greatest man who ever lived!!....Uno de los hombres mas grandes que jamas vivio!!
I learnt classical mechanics from his lectures only..how beautifully one observes our physical world
Which lectures if I may ask??
Thank you soooooo much for this, I idolise this man. And, no bloody background music either.. thank you!!!!!!
Much of my success in business can be traced to when I read his two non-technical books, and had my eyes opened as to how one should one's mind. Truly a great man, and deeply missed. Seems to me like America isn't producing enough of this kind of intellectual any more.
thanks to public schools, these types of people will become even rarer by the generation
this intellect is made in the womb
Trying to answer questions is a good thing. When I was younger (I must've been 10 or 11) I remember watching a documentary on rockets and space travel. Where they talked about how having to lug your propellant with you decreased your performance (the tyranny of the rocket equation). I didn't have much knowledge of physics at the time, but I remember trying to solve the problem by drawing a picture of a rocket which would use the very small amount of gas and dust that is present in space, and accelerate it using magnets out the other end. I then found out that this is the basis of a Bussard ramjet, a type of propulsion proposed in 1960. I was by no means particularly intelligent, I am considered fairly average in school, I just thought about the problem and tried to fit together the rest of my knowledge to make it work.
Jeff Vader I think my mind is a significantly dumbed down version of Feynman’s. Pretty sure I think the same way but with a crappier processor. Maybe you’re the same!
There can probably be only a few ways the mind is wired to interact with the world. I think a good comedian’s mind has to be Feynmanesque too. Anyway...that dude was awesome.
Amazing how people truly do live with a computer in their heads, and anyone can recognize a problem, and develop a slightly different solution. everyone today has what Feinman would regard as an amazingly complex supercomputer in our pockets and can find any point of view and solutions, but introduces infinitely more questions and problems for us to solve. Sometimes I wonder what fun Feinman would have with google, but WE have the tools, and he’d want this generation to discover these questions for ourselves.
Jeff Vader, do you know Darth Vader? Can you get his autograph? (sorry :P)
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Watching these sorts of interviews with Feynman when I was a boy greatly inspired me.I have taken his advice in my life, and guess what? Thinking for yourself doesn't make you very popular!
It sure doesn’t . Got me fired for not wanting to take a recent experimental thing
I had a very good physics teacher that would answer a question the same way. Never a direct answer to the question but a proposition for you to think more about the question. At first I thought my teacher was arrogant, but later I understood they were the complete opposite. My teacher had faith that I could come to a better understanding. My teacher is not here any more but has changed my world view and helped me to use physics as a tool that pays my bills.
I have always felt connected with the way this great mind used his intellect to explain things. I'm almost tempted to say we have similar ways of looking at this wonderful universe, my iq may not be as high as his but I have been able to relate to many of his insights and perspectives of looking at the world, and many of his videos have helped me embark in my own personal mental journeys to understand the universe a little better. I am very thankful to be alive at this moment in history were our understanding of ourselves has surpassed expectations yet we have only scratched the surface of the grand scale of what the universe is.
Feynman was such a treasure to humanity. The embodiment of the virtue of child-like curiousity and how it can change the world for the better if you only you're willing to appear a little foolish from time to time.
Wow. I wish I could have been able to take a class or even talk with Feynman. That would have been a real honour indeed.
Truthfully this man is similar to myself. I don't say this with ego, but with a sense of comfort. His smile warms me as well.
Unos de los mejores interpretes de la humanidad; Feynman vive!
Back were those days when Scientist had some serious respect amongst the Public unlike Today’s Celebrity World! 😔
It is truly sad . To be honest vintage was much better than today's fake glamour
we're living in late stage capitalism - from now on it's either humanity and overthrow of this detrimental system or annihilation and extinction.
The dude was kind of a celebrity.
@@raymeester7883, of course he was. Today he would have a show, especially with his personality.
I disagree. Make science accessible, don't put it in the dark with all the nerds. We need interest in science from men and women to help build the world.
One of my father's advisor during his Phd program at Caltech
The thing I hold dearest is my ability to always question what I think is absolute. I thank Feynman for this. R.I.P. Richard.
Thank you, for uploading this :). I really appreciate it.
@1:38 "Testing creative ability" via recognizing problems and developing solutions to science that he was not yet exposed to yet, then verifying if he was correct via reviewing the existing science/math.
@5:16 "to know what you know, and dont know."
@6:00 "There's a way of looking at something anew, as if its something you never saw before for the first time. And asking questions about it as if you were different."
This is how analyze for the fundamentals of something. To walk through the analytic process as if it's the first time seeing it and trying to understand the fundamentals of something from the ground up. Its a recreation of the model of something through your observable understanding of it.
@6:56 "Maxwell put the equations together with the Faraday he formulated the equations mathematically with some model in his head and Dirac got his answer by just writing and guessing an equation and other people got their answers like in relativity got the idea by looking at principles of symmetry, Heisenberg got is quantum mechanics by thinking only about things you can measure."
These have all been tried and now we're stuck so we have to use different methods than we used before because they've all been tried, and now we're stuck."
Look to question the physical world with enthusiasm and curiosity in order to create scientific discovery.
Life is so unfair! There are legends like Feynman and there are also people like me.😥
if everyone is like feynman who will watch this video?
I don't have a Nobel prize but I've always thought that just giving something a name does not define it
He truly is both a genius. But also wise beyond his years. Someone with his intellect truly knows the perils of fooling yourself into believing something that isn’t true. This is something mankind will forever struggle with.
He was a truly unique human being with a unique and inspired point of view on anything and everything imaginable. To say he was a genius just doesn’t do it justice. From Mongolian throat singing to theoretical physics and beyond, he seems to be quaintly present in the ever-unfolding corners of my mind, and I’m sure countless others, too. That’s as close to immortality as a human being could get, at least for the time being.
I admit that I've wasted a lot of time on UA-cam, but when I see something like this, it reminds me of how good and useful it can be. So thank you!
There is an abridged transcript of this show available here:
calteches(dot)library(dot)caltech(dot)edu/35/2/PointofView.htm
According to that page, the interview first aired in Great Britain in 1973.
As noted below it was apparently produced in 1972, which would make Feynman, born in 1918, about 54 years old at the time.
It was Oliver Heavyside who invented operational calculus, 1890. Math students called him crazy. Then they found LaPlace.
I suggest reading the following article was written by Dr. Davidicus Wong from Vancouver and published on June 22, 2012:
Love is the core of our lives. It is the purpose, passion and meaning of life. To love and be loved is the point of it all. Yet love, so important and central to our lives, is a complex experience and a confusing word. We mean different things and misunderstand each other when we say, "I love you."
Love comes in many forms-as many as the number of humans that have ever lived.
I see love as a potential spiritual experience-to see and be seen as we really are-beyond what we each appear to be. To love is to recognize the divine in another person, and with that recognition, dedication, compassion and caring flow naturally. To be loved this way is like coming home, finding your authentic self and discovering that you are not alone.
Love takes us deeper into the self yet goes beyond self. It penetrates to the depths of the soul. We love the unique expression of the divine in the other, the other is no longer separate from us, and once that connection between you is experienced there can be no separation.
Life is all about relationships, and love is the point of it all. Life is imperfect, we are all flawed, life is unpredictable, and we all make mistakes. We waste our time and energy, we stray from our paths, and we harm each other. Yet love makes it worthwhile and allows us to forgive others and ourselves.
Unconditional love is an ideal form of love. It is the perfect, all forgiving love of parents for their children. But even the most devoted mother or father falls short of perfection.
We may search our whole lives for the perfect soul mate-one whom we love without judgment or reservation, one who loves us the same perfect way, but we will never find that perfection because we are each human.
We must accept and appreciate love just as we have received it in all its human imperfection.
It is through us that love is received- and expressed. It is in our lives, through our actions, in our words and in our relationships that divine love is manifest. But, of course, we are human-imperfect, frail and fallible. We do not see clearly-ourselves or others. We love imperfectly and we do not fully appreciate the love that we receive.
But that is how we experience love-divine love, unconditional love, compassion and grace-filtered by the passions and hunger of our bodies, clouded by our limited minds and nar-rowed by our little selves.
We must not only love the ones we're with. We must accept the love we have been given.
This morning, my thoughts began with a prayer of appreciation for love in my life-in the past and in the present, as I have received it, partly through the grace of the events and circumstances of my life and the gifts I have received but primarily through my important relationships.
I am thankful for love- perfect and unconditional- as manifest and expressed in my imperfect relationships. I accept and appreciate that love as expressed by my wife in our long relationship, in her concern and care for me, our home and our children. I appreciate the love of each of my children, the experiences we have shared as they have grown and we have all learned, in shared adventures, challenges and memories, in the rituals and routine of our everyday lives that seem endless but are finite.
I appreciate divine love through my relationships with my parents, each expressing love in their own ways, with my sister and with my brother.
I am thankful for the love received and expressed in my deepest friendships. I am grateful for the gift of my work-and the opportunity to express unconditional love in the care of my patients.
Dr. Davidicus Wong
Though knowing the name of something gives you power over it because you can operate with that concept more easily - Rumpelstiltskin principle
Apparently so - but I feel not; you put your power in it (assign power to it) by naming and have all the power you give it in the terms you set it.
Thus modern humanity is (significantly) trapped in its own model - like a mind being trapped in its own thinking. We could laugh of course - but the experience of this has a tragic element.
In ancient times the 'name' meant the 'nature' and to recognize the nature of a thing is to open or activate the resonance within your own nature - and in a true sense you are then the field of relation as the movement or focus of its revealing to your asking - which is not between separate 'things' but a relational expression of 'one thing'. To take a name in vain would be to take it out of its relational context to serve a private agenda (vanity). This is all about magic spelling. I feel better to willingly align in relational integrity and not seek power over anything - so as to no become subject to what goes around, coming around. There must be stories about recognizing home is where or who we were all along.
The desire to gain power OVER life/self/reality embodies the belief in a lack of power.
The belief that we have it is from the reinforcing feedback of our experience.
When my Mac freezes, I can do what I will with the mouse but the illusion of power through the interface is no longer supported. So within the parameters of a certain practicality it can seem reasonable to say we gain power over something - but if we really look at what is actually going on, we find something much more complex relative to what SEEMS simply self-evident because we have learned to think and see this way as our adaptation to the human world/experience.
The usefulness of a model is to recognize the limits of its applicability AS a model or shortcut reference to a complex intuitive recognition - that could never be explicated completely in 'longhand' of linear verbal mental concept. Nor would we want a life so long as to pause so long to try to do so. It is very difficult to realize that we are so adapted and acclimatised to relating through a model (named world) that it operates by habit as relating TO the model - without actually making the connection.
Forgive me if I rambled out of turn. I also like to uncover other ways of seeing that then release me from tram-tracks I would otherwise follow unknowing.
For anyone who is interested the street in England next to the stream is Lower Millbank Lane, Yorkshire which you can find on Google maps.
Feynman bored at 14
Creates problem which leads to rediscovery of Bernoulli numbers
Lmao
Another Feynman treasure. Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing. I love Feynman, what an inspiring person.
The way he portrays his enthusiasm for just simple.stiff is amazing
When I was expanding brackets I worked on a quick way to solve it. I discovered a formula and was a little dissapointed when I found out it was discovered it was the binomial formula. Now I'm not after watching this and I'm going back into studying maths and physics
It's so inspirational to hear Feynman talk.
Every kid invents the problem of the sum of the power of the integers - solves it and moves on to sex, drugs and rock and roll - Ricky was a late developer.
I just read this at exactly the same time he spoke it. Never been here before lol
Don't worry, he had plenty of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
What a beautiful discourse.
@1:15 My favorite scientist accompanied by my favorite music band: Jethro Tull !
I know it's been a year, but what's the name of the song? This brings back so many memories of 16 mm film music from the 70s
@@andrewcastleberry4921 Living in the Past by the Jethro Tull. Enjoy!
Thanks so much for posting these. There aren't too many people that can be called 'great', but Richard Feynman was a great man.
Feynman is amazing!
He is child like. His passion and curiosity for everything is amazing.
Thank you for uploading the vids!
Such a great teacher.
You need to brush your teeth to clear off the bulk of the plaque bacteria. During your sleep, you don't produce any slime/mucus/etc (hence the dry mouth when you wake up). Your mucus kills bacteria and limits their growth. So any plaque-bacteria that are in your mouth when you go to sleep will have free reign to grow during the night. Brushing before going to bed will limit their numbers and thus limit the damage that can be done. It also removes scraps of food residue, robbing the remaining bacteria of their food.
In the morning, your breakfast delivers a massive amount of sugars into your mouth, allowing all the bacteria that grew during the night to grow/expand/multiply massively. Brushing in the morning halts this by removing the night-grown bacteria and thus protecting your teeth for the day.
Keep in mind that dentists recommend that you never brush more than 3 times a day, and not withing 30 minutes of a meal, to prevent damaging the teeth. Also limit your meals to 7 per day maximum. Your teeth need time to rest/recover from any wear-and-tear damage.
I wonder if mouth breathing is a factor in dry mouth? Did you know that xylitol (birch sap derived) prevents the particular bacteria associated with decay. So this can be rinsed or brushed. There's a lot more to living cellular teeth. Acidic environs ferment as well as dissolve and lack of K2 can mean calcium is not correctly directed or placed where needed - and can be taken from bones and teeth for cellular needs while many forms of calcium are not bio-available as was presumed. IE pasteurised milk.
Dentists are not trained in cellular nutrition or bacterial symbiosis - but have a captive revenue stream of needs arising from a way of life that generates dysfunction and disease. Weston Price was an interesting dentist!
I pay extra for a soft brush but it is often so that we learn too late in life to effect a regenerative way of life from the outset - and of course the young are not inclined to take negative synergies into account until they manifest as some sort of pain, loss or crisis of health.
ALEXANDER1318 You’re mostly correct with your description. Might I add that the mucus you speak of is saliva. The reason the bacteria grows is because of the absence of the flushing and rinsing away action of the saliva during the day.
@@joverstreet24 Right. Saliva. Thanks. I had completely lost the word.
@@joverstreet24 Bacteria is growing according to the ph and nutient conditions - so is a 'zoo' of potentialities depending on the terrain - which is of course influenced by many factors. The role of 'bacteria' in the human (or any other) organism is vital to the function, immunity, cognisance etc. One way of looking is electrical - ie: PH where Acidic conditions promote different species.
The cells in the body - including bone cells - are constantly and periodically renewed and constituents recycled according to need - and according to functional transport delivery. Calcium can be carried and positioned by Vit K2 which operates like a parking attendant to calcium. However electrical forces also operate - PH is an electrical attribute. The transfer of ionic material is part of electrical circuit or current flow in fluids and gases.
!! This speed and dynamics
of talking !!
Thank you for your suggestion, UA-cam ▶️✨
That New York accent is so catchey. I remember once telling my mother that it is possible to have negative integers as well as positive integers and tried to explain my idea,, this was our at the age of 11 or 12, she just laughed at me and said that was stupid, it wasn't until high school then I realised that's exactly what you can do.
Why did you learn about negative integers only in highschool?
Thank you for sharing ,
I like Feynman and Jethro Tull ;-)
So you're also Think As A Brick aye
Thank you for the upload!
Thanks for the upload.
Feynman had a great way of speaking. Almost like a comedian, but of course we all know he wasn't. His intellect combined with his wonderful outlook and humbleness made him truly unique and special. I wish I could have met him.
It's been 4 years since this video was uploaded, hope the uploader found the job he was looking for.
Taking new perspectives always help shed new light on current questions. What he said about the problems in the book, and that the book says "New ideas needed" It's the same thing I do. And so do others.
We should all to this though. With things like science and physics, social and political things as well.
Tell that to republicans. They think that screwing all people all the time is the only necessary idea.
i miss him, and i did not even "know" him
I struggled with algebra and math altogether. I envy having such a mind. Fascinating and compelling. THANK YOU!
cheers
julie
Actually, Oliver Heavyside invented operator calculus. He was called crazy, because he could not prove it.
Indeed! He solved many of the problems of alternating currents and transmission lines. We owe much to Oliver!
I wish he would’ve made more video content. The world needs more of him !
Having watched/heard Freeman Dyson speaking and here watching Feynman I sense Dyson learn some traits / life patterns from Feynman
Love Feynman; such incredible insight into - well everything. Wonder what he'd make of string or m theory?
Always think it's cool how much of an influence his father was on him; encouraging Feynman to think for himself.
He found out things discovered in 1739 when he was only 14. I could live 100 years and I wouldn't find out things discovered before Christ.
Ok you made a statement - but what about accepting that you made that statement as a persistence of a pattern, and that you can choose to take that statement and open it to another point of view?
Then without changing anything you allow fresh information about your self and your relationship to your world.
In a sense I am saying you could resonate in a like frequency rather than polarising a comparison and accepting it as a conclusion. You have your own talents, interests and joys. He was encouraged to challenge and be curious and so he was more able to follow what he found interesting. Society does not often teach us this, because we associate it with getting into trouble.
Gaudio Wind hhhhhhhhh....buddy...u v got a humour beyond time..no worries
@@DannyPhantumm Oh, the irony... He spoke like a normal person who is trying to communicate an idea. You, on the other hand, sounded like what you claim him to be. Both the way you started your comment and the way you ended your comment are idiotic.
Just giving you something to think about,
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@@DannyPhantumm I have discord but I see no need for it regarding the kind of discussion we are having.
@@DannyPhantumm You are indeed assuming - and your assumptions are your own cast and scripting. What I suggest you mean is that you would regard yourself in such a way if you were to behave as you judge me to be acting. If I had your background - perhaps I would write as you do.
I have no desire to speak new wine into the old paradigm - and yet the phrasing of my written discourse is not my design so much as my attempt to clothe felt meanings in consciously accepted terms.
I have no interest in changing anyone's viewpoint - so much as waking the nature of a viewpoint as a choice. In your awareness of your own choice are you free to choose anew or differently - but while defending or attacking a viewpoint you are in effect 'locked in'.
Intelligence is to my appreciation innate - and everyone is embodying it as their current expression. Blocks to intelligence are in effect learned or acquired - not least of which is the self inflation of self-specialness set over and against others. If you see me setting my person over or others under - then point it out. I regard much casual language as corrupted by such insinuation and so I don't run it.
If you can make a point without attacking or undermining another - why would you not? Perhaps because you will 'lose impact' and become irrelevant to the addiction to drama.
I extend the ideas - as best I can - as an invitation to be considered as willingness and resonance move you. You are free to engage in them or use them to whatever purpose you are currently 'alive in' or accepting as true of you.
Unlike a physical meeting, I set out in my preferred framework and terms. If we met I would listen and tune into a shared willingness and as a mutual resonance may then find a rich communication.
I cant recall what the points were - as I am responding in a side box. But that you extend a communication to me is a touch of some resonant and some dissonant qualities. Like interference patterns in a vessica pisces. But we are each tuned somewhat differently - however - hello ;-)
Every one's face is fantastic CONSTRUCT OF MANY SUB CONSTRUCTS and every one may recognize and remember face but certainly may not remember the name is essence of this talk PERHAPS to understand and find something different than routine things in PRACTICE. Thanks.
Feynman was a fineman !!!!
My obeisance to the great Physicist.
Womanizer.
@@udhiw.4663 yeah but approached even that Scientifically!
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You're butthurt
I had been using his way of thinking and solving problems almost my entire life. And at that time I had no clue who he was. I really wish he were still alive and we can talk about certain subjects. He died in 88 and I was born 89. Just missed him.
the greatest thing about this man is that he reveals everything he sees with his own eyes which many by the way refuse to do.
Thank you for sharing this, aaron.
I've seen this many times and every time I see it I get pleasantly surprised by "Living In The Past". :))
Wow, this is great. Thanks for posting this.
I love the opening titles with music from Jethro Tull... :)
And this, ladies and gentlemen, was the 1970's: when a science program could use a track by Jethro Tull as its theme music, and you could make a science documentary just by filming a scientist talking in his office.
In this, we have not improved.