@@floydthedroid5935 actually you can’t say that we didn’t move ahead of this…because you’re comparing “us”, which are normal people, to one of the greatest mind in history ever, and that comparison doesn’t make sense. There’re progresses consistently being produced in the academia, but they’re just too complicated for normal people to understand, which make normal people think that our generation is more inferior or so.
We are able to listen to him so many years after he gave this interview.After so many years he died.Technology we have today is truly amazing.And we owe it to people like Richard Feynman who pushed human understanding just a little further.
Sadly, teachers aren't paid enough in middle or highschool. These people belong in highly paid positions, and they know it. Also, these schools don't allow experiments through grants like a university... Too many forces repel this grand ideal situation.
David Arthur Pay is a poor excuse. Feynman did not have highly paid teachers. In fact, his inspiration came from his Dad who was merely a Uniform salesperson but had insatiable appetite and curiosity that he passed along to Feynman.
Gaurang Vin Yes, so all you have to do is find a bunch of inspiring uniform salesmen and ask them to go into the schools to inspire the children. It doesn't matter what they know, and they will be happy to do it for nothing, just like Feynman's dad did for him. But...where did Feynman go to college. Oh, MIT. I think he might have had some well-paid, well-informed teachers there. And if you wanted to get Feynman as a teacher? You would have needed to attend Caltech, and you would have found that he was paid well (not exorbitantly) to teach there.
My first book of his I read was his autobiographical "Surely you must be Joking, Mr. Feynman" Wonderful. Hilarious. I sincerely, recommend it to anyone who finds this interesting.
man...this guy is so obsessively CURIOUS. amazingly curious. he has "obsessive curiosity" disorder. no...not disorder...order. it HELPED him so it wasnt a disorder. i LOVE listening to him. what a great man he was. and still IS because we get to see and hear him forever!
I love this guy! He does (or did) exactly what I do, vis-a-vis imagine stuff, the inner-workings-of-nature kind of thing. And he's so right about how fun it is to do
i love the way he explains everything. it keeps me paying attention from beginning to end. his genius was phenomenal. i wish he was still alive so that i could pick his brain. There so many questions i would ask
This is a man that loves his science. This comes across so clearly. There are those who try to imitate this only to find out that you cannot fake love.
He was perhaps the most insistently democratic genius I have ever read about. His chapter "Alfred Nobel's other mistake" is something of a critique of the idea of being famous for being a celebrity. Hans Bethe and Niels Bohr, men who were rightly distinguished in science when Feynman was _merely_ smart enough to be in the Manhattan Project, sought him out because not even their acknowledged brilliance held him back from arguing with them, and they were wise enough to know that occasionally they overlooked flaws in their newest ideas!
As much as he likes to tear at philosophers, I find that Feynman himself, has been the philosopher that has had more or an impact on my life than any other. Perhaps that because, as he likes to say, philosophers at pedantic. In fact it is Feynman who inspired me to study philosophy in university, because important to him, and in my opinion the reason he is such a famous educator, is how people think and why they think the way they do. With a particular fascination with how they think about the world, he uses physics to analyze this and he does so with perfection.
Many comments are about I wish I had a teacher like this in high school . Well, you people should understand that Feynman knows when he shoot this video that he is talking with the general public so he is making it so simple so that the public can understand it but is this how science really looks like ? The answer is NO, Feynman's scientific specialization is a very complex branch of science and science in general is hard. He just knows that he has to make his videos compelling to the public as if he is explaining something to childrens.
Even on PBS, not all NOVA programs are done well enough. A first class explainer like David Attenborough or E.O.Wilson displays his enthusiasm by NOT talking, slo-owly, all the time. Some of them, they're telling you what's in their head. Others seem to be reading from a script.
RPF is my inspiration - he's so *cool* in all senses of the word - made me swap good techie career for physics/cosmology study - amazing guy.. thanks voor the vid
What I love about Richard most, is that while he knows a LOT about how fundamental stuff works, he wonders about what he tells just like his audience, and can easaly admit that he knows nothing about nature.
Fun to listen to him. When I think of people like this I often think how it's almost tragic that they don't get to see where science progresses after they're gone. I wish he could have lived for 200 years.
One can only fantasize about having a science teacher like this. At the opposite end of the spectrum was my Chem 105 prof, who started on the first day with a roomful of student teachers and nurses by putting Schrodinger’s wave equation on the board, and expecting us to understand it....
one may feel that.... spending for 16 years for graduation is a bad idea after listening to the way how he explains. Spending an hour will change ones whole life. Amazing teacher.... culminated human being from the all the fronts of his character
What i've learned from listening to many talks from Feynman is that a scientist does not ask a question like "why ?" because the answer depends on a context and always generates a new "why". I think scientist try to describe nature ("how") in such a way that the answer is based on general principles that can be experimentally verified
Feynman didn't like people asking why because he didn't know the answer. He often didn't like people asking how either for the same reason. Saying a scientist should not ask why because it asks a new question is ridiculous. Science isn't just about finding answers to existing questions, it is about finding different questions to answer.
@Indygoguy I have no idea. However, I do know that the perminant magnets do in fact lose strength over time. It is a shockingly long time, but it does occur.
Feynman's brain was so complex, yet he could spin a story that left one thinking, "but I never thought about it that way" . I suppose this has been answered: If alike particles, protons for instance repel each other how come the concept of the atom has them huddled together in the centre of the atom. Are they herded together by the electron field that surrounds them? I am but a layman in the physics realm.
I had to laugh... "It's so enormous, that if I were all electrons..." And then he immediately acts like, "Nah, that's stupid," and goes on to something else.
If he were all election he would zap the ground and dissipate before be able to saying anything. *It's a terrible example and this is why he moved on.*
For the quote 'Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists,' may I have the original source information? Is it mentioned in any book, or has anyone heard Feynman say this, perhaps during a lecture or discussion with friends?
I dont understand why the electrons in an element aren't attracted to the proton in the nucleus until the distance between them is zero? I understand that we use a wave function to determine the orbitals and energy levels that electrons are at, but why dont the electrons literally stick to the protons?
They don't need to travel to do what he is saying about, just resonate and pass on an effect to the end, which as you probably know happens very quickly!
Hi Christopher and everyone, I'm subtitling this video and I don't understand what he says on 3:09; he's talking about forces that we're used to, forces of direct action, and then he says, "But then you have to imagine what it is that's pushing with the finger.." (please correct me if I'm wrong) then he says two phrases about little atoms which I don't fully understant, until he says "and there's a little space between those atoms, and this pushing is going through that space". Anyone help? Pls
Funny to hear Feynman characterise Maxwell's synthesis as the most remarkable, greatest change in history and to know that I can stroll not two miles from where I sit and see Maxwell's house and the communal garden he played in as a boy. Just another Scot inventing the modern world. Vote YES in 2014 !!!!
@robertwc82 Light can and always do pass through another "beam" of light. If you look at the light as a particle, then its called a photon, as you probably know, and photons are a class of particles called bozons, which one of the features is that two of those can occupy the same space unlike fermions, that cannot. Atom is made out of fermions - electrons, protons, neutrons, and although its 99.99..% empty space, because of enormous electric, reppeling force it seems solid as a whole.
@metalmusi How do you know there is not a limit? There is a perfectly reasonable scenario in which we can explain how everything happens and can be described by mathematical formulas.
How lucky are we that the internet exists and we can listen to the greats any time we choose?
This is exactly one the things he said was gonna happen to his stories. He was gonna die but his stories were going to live on!
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How unfortunate are we that we have not moved ahead of this. We have moved behind it and now we view it with dismay. We have grown dumb.
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@@floydthedroid5935 actually you can’t say that we didn’t move ahead of this…because you’re comparing “us”, which are normal people, to one of the greatest mind in history ever, and that comparison doesn’t make sense. There’re progresses consistently being produced in the academia, but they’re just too complicated for normal people to understand, which make normal people think that our generation is more inferior or so.
We are able to listen to him so many years after he gave this interview.After so many years he died.Technology we have today is truly amazing.And we owe it to people like Richard Feynman who pushed human understanding just a little further.
A *LOT* further!
a pure love of science and understanding the universe.
Feyman was probably one the most unique and genuine genious of our time.
All these Feynmann videos are great. For some reason his enthusiasm is totally infectious. A scientist and a raconteur.
And musician.
This guy can make any topic interesting and accessible, I wish I had teachers like him in school.
Sadly, teachers aren't paid enough in middle or highschool. These people belong in highly paid positions, and they know it. Also, these schools don't allow experiments through grants like a university... Too many forces repel this grand ideal situation.
David Arthur Pay is a poor excuse. Feynman did not have highly paid teachers. In fact, his inspiration came from his Dad who was merely a Uniform salesperson but had insatiable appetite and curiosity that he passed along to Feynman.
Gaurang Vin Yes, so all you have to do is find a bunch of inspiring uniform salesmen and ask them to go into the schools to inspire the children. It doesn't matter what they know, and they will be happy to do it for nothing, just like Feynman's dad did for him.
But...where did Feynman go to college. Oh, MIT. I think he might have had some well-paid, well-informed teachers there. And if you wanted to get Feynman as a teacher? You would have needed to attend Caltech, and you would have found that he was paid well (not exorbitantly) to teach there.
Most teachers sadly lose the passion of curiosity that fueled Mr. Feynman
he was also paid to talk !
This guy is my favorite person on this planet! He wants to teach me something!
Had a smile on my face the whole way through, Its imposible not to smile when listening to feynmans explanations.
Very warm and quite friendly, this man clearly love the mysteries of science
this guy is a serious BADASS
yassir nejjar That’s because he’s from Far Rockaway yo!
I think as many people as possible should view this series of videos! My jaw dropped and stayed that way for this whole video!
Such a lovely personality
Was that sarcasm? Everyone who met the guy thought he was a douche.
Filo Fitch well ,it dont look like he cared
@@filofitch1964 usually people who see douches everywhere are douches.
Scarily brilliant. Unique
not scary just brilliant
My first book of his I read was his autobiographical "Surely you must be Joking, Mr. Feynman" Wonderful. Hilarious. I sincerely, recommend it to anyone who finds this interesting.
Watching him explain anything makes me so happy
man...this guy is so obsessively CURIOUS. amazingly curious. he has "obsessive curiosity" disorder. no...not disorder...order. it HELPED him so it wasnt a disorder. i LOVE listening to him. what a great man he was. and still IS because we get to see and hear him forever!
scientists are pay for curious
What a treat!
Thank you for the high quality upload.
"When you comb your hair..."
He is wonderful.
Feynman always helps me visualize and imagine the real world in ways that are wonderful and leave me awe-filled...
Feynman is my hero. I never get tired of listening to him. It must be terrific to think as clearly as he did.
I could listen to him all day. His enthusiasm is infectious. He really makes you think.
I love this guy! He does (or did) exactly what I do, vis-a-vis imagine stuff, the inner-workings-of-nature kind of thing. And he's so right about how fun it is to do
i love the way he explains everything. it keeps me paying attention from beginning to end. his genius was phenomenal. i wish he was still alive so that i could pick his brain. There so many questions i would ask
This is a man that loves his science. This comes across so clearly. There are those who try to imitate this only to find out that you cannot fake love.
He was perhaps the most insistently democratic genius I have ever read about. His chapter "Alfred Nobel's other mistake" is something of a critique of the idea of being famous for being a celebrity. Hans Bethe and Niels Bohr, men who were rightly distinguished in science when Feynman was _merely_ smart enough to be in the Manhattan Project, sought him out because not even their acknowledged brilliance held him back from arguing with them, and they were wise enough to know that occasionally they overlooked flaws in their newest ideas!
Simply fantastic! A remarkable and inspiring man....could listen for hours, weeks aeons. Thanks
As much as he likes to tear at philosophers, I find that Feynman himself, has been the philosopher that has had more or an impact on my life than any other. Perhaps that because, as he likes to say, philosophers at pedantic. In fact it is Feynman who inspired me to study philosophy in university, because important to him, and in my opinion the reason he is such a famous educator, is how people think and why they think the way they do. With a particular fascination with how they think about the world, he uses physics to analyze this and he does so with perfection.
Many comments are about I wish I had a teacher like this in high school . Well, you people should understand that Feynman knows when he shoot this video that he is talking with the general public so he is making it so simple so that the public can understand it but is this how science really looks like ? The answer is NO, Feynman's scientific specialization is a very complex branch of science and science in general is hard. He just knows that he has to make his videos compelling to the public as if he is explaining something to childrens.
I Luv science and physics but I hate the ways they are taught in school.
So true!!!
+Lynn the Religious pacs are noisey..don't want to offend their floaty dude or their belief in it
:) and i'm a former Christian..My Logic Bone kept getting in the way :)
i actually had extremely good physics teachers, but those are rare.
Even on PBS, not all NOVA programs are done well enough. A first class explainer like David Attenborough or E.O.Wilson displays his enthusiasm by NOT talking, slo-owly, all the time. Some of them, they're telling you what's in their head. Others seem to be reading from a script.
It's only coppah!
Get to the Coppaaaah
Lmfao these two comments together made my day. Bravo
You have to admire Feynman. True, down to earth genius...
He does a decent job explaining something in words that can only be explained with sound.
I just so love this man's mind!
RPF is my inspiration - he's so *cool* in all senses of the word - made me swap good techie career for physics/cosmology study - amazing guy.. thanks voor the vid
What I love about Richard most, is that while he knows a LOT about how fundamental stuff works, he wonders about what he tells just like his audience, and can easaly admit that he knows nothing about nature.
A true man of science.
i could listen to Feynman for hours ...
I love his way of thinking
awesome man great amazing i wish he was my teacher.
He is, just picture him as a long Distance Force.
his narratives are so accessible
Gell-Mann watched this six times.
Christian Farina Whilst masturbating.
philipm06 haha. Maybe.
philipm06 Tut, tut, now, now children.....you must behave!
+Christian Farina SO FUNNY !!
Fun to listen to him. When I think of people like this I often think how it's almost tragic that they don't get to see where science progresses after they're gone. I wish he could have lived for 200 years.
Fyenman is such a special person!
One can only fantasize about having a science teacher like this. At the opposite end of the spectrum was my Chem 105 prof, who started on the first day with a roomful of student teachers and nurses by putting Schrodinger’s wave equation on the board, and expecting us to understand it....
The big wheel that is rotating is called an alternator a synchronous generator.
Priceless! 😊
I love to hear him talk about anything- He is just one regular dude who knows a metric ton of Physics!
Any book with his name on it is worth a read.
Some require a bit more head-scratching though . . . . .
Mr. Feynman we all love you!
everybody should watch Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' videos... it forces you to think.... which is very good!
Wonderful video
one may feel that.... spending for 16 years for graduation is a bad idea after listening to the way how he explains. Spending an hour will change ones whole life. Amazing teacher.... culminated human being from the all the fronts of his character
thanks for sharing - precious.
Wonderful. Thank you very much!
Wow,
Thank you very much.
What i've learned from listening to many talks from Feynman is that a scientist does not ask a question like "why ?" because the answer depends on a context and always generates a new "why". I think scientist try to describe nature ("how") in such a way that the answer is based on general principles that can be experimentally verified
+Marco Ponte That is correct, in that everything is based on natural law, which are the laws of nature.
Feynman didn't like people asking why because he didn't know the answer. He often didn't like people asking how either for the same reason. Saying a scientist should not ask why because it asks a new question is ridiculous. Science isn't just about finding answers to existing questions, it is about finding different questions to answer.
damn, I love that man and his mind!
It's hard not to poke your chair while watching this.
@Indygoguy
I have no idea. However, I do know that the perminant magnets do in fact lose strength over time. It is a shockingly long time, but it does occur.
He's such a likeable person.
Feynman's brain was so complex, yet he could spin a story that left one thinking, "but I never thought about it that way" . I suppose this has been answered: If alike particles, protons for instance repel each other how come the concept of the atom has them huddled together in the centre of the atom. Are they herded together by the electron field that surrounds them? I am but a layman in the physics realm.
srong nuclear force
Watch this video and listen to wonderful way Richard Feynman explains what electricity, magnetism or electromagnetism is.
He's partly talking about The Pauli exclusion principle (in case anyone wanted to read further on it, it is fascinating :) )
I had to laugh...
"It's so enormous, that if I were all electrons..."
And then he immediately acts like, "Nah, that's stupid," and goes on to something else.
ChrisC pretty sure he said « the numbers are too big ».
brilliant truelly intresting.
@liverloop123 OH! I almost forgot Brian Cox. He's amazing too, he does a lot of documentaries with the BBC and he's a particle physicist at CERN.
305 849 views. 2.1k Likes. 14 DISLIKES! Faith in humanity restored.
Faith in humanity or anything is misplaced.
"It's so enormous, that if I were all electrons..."
I really wanted him to carry on with that example!!
If he were all election he would zap the ground and dissipate before be able to saying anything.
*It's a terrible example and this is why he moved on.*
Someone should really do visuals and animations of what he’s describing.Would make really great educational videos.
"Gravity is attractive, and this is repulsive."
Gosh, I don't think it's repulsive. I think it's beautiful.
I love how he has to explain the idea of an axiom to the interviewer
People need to have this kind of imaginative perspective in order to love science and not the just the formula and equation based.
My favorite person in the whole world...
I was expecting something more simple but when he started with "dam" I was like damn that's deep.
For the quote 'Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists,' may I have the original source information? Is it mentioned in any book, or has anyone heard Feynman say this, perhaps during a lecture or discussion with friends?
ooh my tiny mind is spanked into place by your breathtaking wit
imagine if this guy was a live to show up on the Joe Rogan podcast
He would totally have his on channel with millions of subscribers.
I'm speechless
You are the one and only
That's the word I was looking for.
7:54 laughs like Sheldon!
I dont understand why the electrons in an element aren't attracted to the proton in the nucleus until the distance between them is zero? I understand that we use a wave function to determine the orbitals and energy levels that electrons are at, but why dont the electrons literally stick to the protons?
Think how many people would have his curiosity about the universe if their parents challenged their kid's minds the way his father did!
i have a question for feyman why does the fried egg gets stuck to the pan if the atoms are not touching!?
What does God have to do with any of the truth that he is so eloquently describing? Just appreciate the beauty of the truth for what it is.
is an atom "solid" or is it like a light that can not pass through another beam of light. like energy that repels
So when I touch something, it's really just the magnets in my finger repelling the magnets in whatever I'm touching?
More or less. Try listening to the full video before posting comment next time.
They don't need to travel to do what he is saying about, just resonate and pass on an effect to the end, which as you probably know happens very quickly!
How can he be so high but still remember what to say at the same time?
Spooky action at a disance
This guy was just a fucking badass.
Yep, there is a big man in the sky playing a really big game of The Sims.
I'm just glad I know how to get out of a pool without a ladder.
Hi Christopher and everyone,
I'm subtitling this video and I don't understand what he says on 3:09; he's talking about forces that we're used to, forces of direct action, and then he says, "But then you have to imagine what it is that's pushing with the finger.." (please correct me if I'm wrong) then he says two phrases about little atoms which I don't fully understant, until he says "and there's a little space between those atoms, and this pushing is going through that space". Anyone help? Pls
Even though he's pretty bad at explaining things, he is still very interesting to listen to.
You're 10yrs behind
Funny to hear Feynman characterise Maxwell's synthesis as the most remarkable, greatest change in history and to know that I can stroll not two miles from where I sit and see Maxwell's house and the communal garden he played in as a boy. Just another Scot inventing the modern world. Vote YES in 2014 !!!!
Good point!
@MM1E I meant to say it is difficult for me to understand his accent, not his scientific explanations
@robertwc82
Light can and always do pass through another "beam" of light. If you look at the light as a particle, then its called a photon, as you probably know, and photons are a class of particles called bozons, which one of the features is that two of those can occupy the same space unlike fermions, that cannot. Atom is made out of fermions - electrons, protons, neutrons, and although its 99.99..% empty space, because of enormous electric, reppeling force it seems solid as a whole.
He is both based *and* repilled. RIP in peace Richard Feynman.
@metalmusi How do you know there is not a limit? There is a perfectly reasonable scenario in which we can explain how everything happens and can be described by mathematical formulas.
Elementary my dear Watson.
Toroidal field.
Life is the forces of opposition NULL and attraction.
When ya comb ya heya...