5 times Paul Dirac delivered epic burns!

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
  • Nobel laureate Paul Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He predicted the existence of antimatter in 1928 for which he won the Nobel Prize.
    Visit our website wondersofphysic...

КОМЕНТАРІ • 177

  • @davidrgilson
    @davidrgilson Рік тому +59

    I'd change the title on this. Five times Dirac delivered epic burns

    • @Carl-Gauss
      @Carl-Gauss 7 місяців тому +12

      What was the original one?

    • @character640p
      @character640p 3 місяці тому +3

      Yeah bro, what was the original title?

  • @terencemeikle534
    @terencemeikle534 Рік тому +31

    I've always loved that picture of Dirac and Feynman in the garden. It looks like Dirac is literally backing away from the stream of Feynman's talk, but winds up trapped by a big flower pot.

    • @seanmcmanus9656
      @seanmcmanus9656 Місяць тому +1

      reminds me of that story where the homeless philosopher told Alexander to piss off

  • @addy7464
    @addy7464 2 роки тому +117

    Greatest introvert in history.

    • @Hichem90
      @Hichem90 2 роки тому +12

      Introvert guys are the most brilliant ones.

    • @mm__1659
      @mm__1659 Рік тому +3

      ​@@Hichem90 except Richard Feynman.....he was an extrovert

    • @terencemeikle534
      @terencemeikle534 Рік тому +2

      Apparently, Dirac lightened up some when he moved to Florida in his later years.

    • @josephbieberly8624
      @josephbieberly8624 10 місяців тому +7

      Isaac Newton wins that title by a light year.

    • @vinniepeterss
      @vinniepeterss 7 місяців тому

      😂

  • @TimHasChannelschannel-qh1jz
    @TimHasChannelschannel-qh1jz Рік тому +20

    I had heard, more than once, that when Dirac said _"I have an equation_ [named after him] _do you have one?",_ it was to someone seated next to him at a banquet, and he'd asked in an attempt to be conversational. I prefer that version.

  • @marksea64
    @marksea64 5 місяців тому +8

    A physics prof of mine who was at Florida State as a graduate student when Dirac was there told me a story about him. Dirac would often attend seminars and developed a reputation for falling asleep during the lecture, or at least seeming to. He would suddenly sometimes come to life and make a relevant remark or ask a question.
    One day a young visiting physicist was giving a presentation and was nervous about Dirac being in the audience. He got even more shaken when Dirac seemed to fall asleep. So much so that he struggled badly with the formula derivation he was doing on the board from memory. He had to go back and make many corrections. At the end, as time was running out, he had the right answer but the wrong sign. He apologized to the audience saying "I must have made a sign error somewhere in there."
    Dirac suddenly opened his eyes and said "Or an odd number of them, anyway."

  • @physicsisawesome4205
    @physicsisawesome4205 3 роки тому +114

    Paul Dirac is for sure one of the greatest theoretical physicist of all time

  • @corners1733
    @corners1733 Рік тому +27

    Dirac is highly underrated; unfairly unrecognized

    • @asterixx6878
      @asterixx6878 9 місяців тому +12

      That's a typical youtube comment. Dirac is neither underrated nor unrecognized amongst people who are interested in physics.

    • @aman_sp03
      @aman_sp03 6 місяців тому +1

      From dirac, the actual physics starts

    • @grahamblack1961
      @grahamblack1961 5 місяців тому +1

      Maybe he's underrated down the local bar, but amongst anyone who knows anything about physics he's up there with Einstein.

    • @MrLenoir99
      @MrLenoir99 5 місяців тому

      Underrated by who? I have heard and read a number of physicists state unequivocally that he is one of the two or possibly three greatest of the 20th century.

  • @ynotds6205
    @ynotds6205 2 роки тому +55

    This was a golden era, late 1800’s early 1900’s.
    So many great minds.
    Of course there were other before and since, but if I could pick my physics dream team, 80% of it would come from that period.

    • @douglasstrother6584
      @douglasstrother6584 Рік тому +4

      Arnold Sommerfeld would definitely be on that list.

    • @andsalomoni
      @andsalomoni Рік тому

      An era in which fundamental physics was still in the hands of the individuals.
      Today it is in the hands of organizations of multi-billion dollars collider makers.

    • @jjeherrera
      @jjeherrera Рік тому +8

      Dirac himself defined it: "Those were the days in which a second rate physicist could do a first rate work, as opposite to what happens nowadays, when a first rate physicist finds it hard to do a second rate work."

    • @larrylucid5502
      @larrylucid5502 Рік тому +5

      Some say that the age of the genius is over. There is too much 'computational power' and knowledge that no individual can bring new discoveries on his own.

    • @erawanpencil
      @erawanpencil Рік тому +3

      @@larrylucid5502 Physics kind of got what it deserved in this regard, after centuries of dismissing anything that wasn't computational as irrelevant. My hunch is that it will get more interesting after a few more generations pass, after the mystique of equations, strings, and 'genius' becomes blasé. Hopefully something on the frontiers of neuroscience and psychedelics.

  • @coolcat23
    @coolcat23 Рік тому +17

    His responses made perfect sense each time. He apparently was the original Sheldon (and it's the others in the BBT I laugh about).

    • @neerajchandran8948
      @neerajchandran8948 Місяць тому

      Dirac wasn't a self consumed selfish man

    • @coolcat23
      @coolcat23 Місяць тому

      @@neerajchandran8948 Nor is Sheldon.

  • @BreezyE-d3n
    @BreezyE-d3n Рік тому +12

    one time at an Oxford university dinner someone asked Dirac where he was going on his summer holidays. Dirac was silent for an hour and then asked the man, why do you want to know where I'm going on my summer holidays?

  • @Ometecuhtli
    @Ometecuhtli 2 роки тому +19

    There was a renowned physicist or mathematician that while attending one of his lectures remarked that Dirac didn't notice how difficult to follow his equations was.
    Another time, someone entered the room where Dirac was working and exclaimed "nice weather!" to which Dirac calmly raised from his chair, walked to the window and said "Yes".
    The anectode that, probably told by Gamow when they set an experiment to see why the guy with the white hat always seemed to beat the black hat guy in cowboy movies, although it could involve Dirac it was probably about another very literal scientist.

  • @Jack-r2v9b
    @Jack-r2v9b 2 роки тому +9

    How do you know they're nice,he sure made perfect logical sense on that occasion without doubt.

  • @haniamritdas4725
    @haniamritdas4725 Рік тому +10

    Dirac's description of poetry is poetry itself. He just did not understand that it was his attitude toward physics which was poetic enough to begin with, so that he had no need to be reminded by nonsense of the possibility of profundity beyond complete understanding. The need that most of us have for poetry is to be reminded that certainty is nonsense in any human context.

    • @Elvisism
      @Elvisism 9 місяців тому +1

      I wish I might see life through this lens one day

  • @KpxUrz5745
    @KpxUrz5745 6 місяців тому +1

    All of these guys are my heroes. Each so brilliant, yet each so different.

  • @zoperxplex
    @zoperxplex 2 роки тому +29

    Evidently Dirac missed his calling as a comedy writer on Saturday Night Live.

  • @brianhiles8164
    @brianhiles8164 4 місяці тому +1

    Dirac´s response to Oppenheimer concerning poetry and physics was a brilliant observation. Oppenheimer _should_ have responded likewise, and further asserted that he had answered his own question.
    Presumably, in the brief _caesura_ that ensued, Oppenheimer could have effected his getaway.

  • @mortalclown3812
    @mortalclown3812 2 роки тому +6

    This was delightful. I'm very right-brained and fathom little of physics, maths, etc: I only discovered Dirac from some of his remarks regarding other things.
    In my next incarnation, I'll ask to return with greater abilities that I might better understand Prof. Dirac's profession.

  • @audience2
    @audience2 Рік тому +4

    When Dirac spoke, he sounded like a textbook, such was the clarity of his thoughts.

    • @wondersofphysics
      @wondersofphysics  Рік тому +2

      true

    • @salamalmudarris5032
      @salamalmudarris5032 Рік тому

      I think he was applying what he was taught at school ( never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it) 😊

  • @andsalomoni
    @andsalomoni Рік тому +6

    "The reason why the single photon does or does not go through the polarizing filter cannot be investigated by experiment, and must be regarded as outside the domain of science".
    [P.A.M. Dirac, "The Principles of quantum Mechanics"]

  • @manamsetty2664
    @manamsetty2664 2 роки тому +10

    Well i sure have a diagram
    Richard Feynman

  • @drewc964
    @drewc964 Рік тому +7

    Dirac makes me think of Sheldon Cooper.

    • @pauldirac808
      @pauldirac808 Рік тому +3

      He’s not as funny as me and he doesn’t know shit about symmetry also I don’t have a twin sister .

  • @Carl-Gauss
    @Carl-Gauss 7 місяців тому +2

    The Sigma of Physics 😎

  • @TupacMakaveli1996
    @TupacMakaveli1996 2 роки тому +3

    A friend of mine looked similar to young Dirac. Its hilarious to think about it 😂😂

  • @dougr.2398
    @dougr.2398 11 місяців тому +1

    Bohr likely knew how to complete his thought but didn’t know the best way to phrase it. Dirac was very literal

    • @dougr.2398
      @dougr.2398 10 місяців тому +1

      And by the way, I heard Dirac speak at Yale in 1971-2 semester

  • @grahamblack1961
    @grahamblack1961 5 місяців тому +2

    I think the "I have an equation" comment was snarky. He was essentially saying "I have an equation named after me, you have a diagram". Dirac was never particularly impressed with Feynman's QED, he didn't think it was elegant and regarded it more as a bunch of mathematical tricks to 'sweep the infinities under the carpet' as Feynman himself put it.

  • @gibbs-13
    @gibbs-13 2 роки тому +4

    If a move about Dirac will be made, the actor should be David Tennant from Around the World in 80 Days

    • @pauldirac808
      @pauldirac808 Рік тому

      I would prefer David Niven but seeing as he is dead my next choice would be Brad Pitt .

  • @davidpalin1790
    @davidpalin1790 Рік тому +3

    Paul Dirac the greatest physicist no one has heard of.
    A brilliant man

    • @alessandroc.4543
      @alessandroc.4543 Рік тому +2

      For physics students and physicists he's one of the most well known

    • @davidpalin1790
      @davidpalin1790 Рік тому +1

      @alessandroc.4543 he had a brilliant mind!
      Didn't like people though 😕
      I know how he feels

  • @kushagr7132
    @kushagr7132 2 роки тому +2

    3:00
    For sure
    That would be some form of Schrodinger equation

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 6 місяців тому +1

    Incredible truths!

  • @wojtekrynkowski2172
    @wojtekrynkowski2172 Рік тому

    Could you tell us how he came up with THE POSITION EQUATION ? Greetings.

  • @chenlim2165
    @chenlim2165 6 місяців тому +2

    LOL, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle of dancing.

  • @josephromance3908
    @josephromance3908 6 місяців тому

    Dirac's comment about poetry are remarkably simplistic.

  • @sporefergieboy10
    @sporefergieboy10 11 місяців тому +2

    “They changed their guacamole from $1.50 to $1.80. So I'II never again get guacamole. It's not about the guacamole itself I just don't want to let them win." - Paul Dirac

  • @DeafmanDuhCyborg
    @DeafmanDuhCyborg Рік тому

    SUGGESTED TITLE 5 times Paul Dirac delivered regular retorts

  • @satnamo
    @satnamo 2 роки тому +3

    I have an equation; do you have an equation?

  • @RamanujanPi
    @RamanujanPi 2 роки тому +7

    My hero after Newton

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 2 роки тому +3

    He also enjoyed Playboy magazine. Sent to him by Dick Feynman.

    • @pauldirac808
      @pauldirac808 Рік тому

      I only enjoyed the articles . My wife ripped out the other pages . Remember we’re British stiff upper lip old boy .

    • @drbonesshow1
      @drbonesshow1 Рік тому

      @@pauldirac808 No other stiffs?

  • @sanjosemike3137
    @sanjosemike3137 6 місяців тому +1

    I think that Einstein even thought that Dirac was smarter than he was. My all-time genius was Clerk-Maxwell. I can't even imagine a smarter human ever walked the earth.
    Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

  • @stephencarlsbad
    @stephencarlsbad Рік тому +1

    I love Dirac! I say the same types of things and react the same sometimes. 😂

  • @dougr.2398
    @dougr.2398 11 місяців тому +1

    Actually, Feynman could have replied « I have an infinite number of them! » and he would have been speaking nothing except the truth

  • @Rinifi
    @Rinifi 2 роки тому

    Is that Ettore Majorana seated directly behind Dirac?

  • @ichdich2332
    @ichdich2332 7 місяців тому

    3:50 It is kind of funny that Feynman is one of the very few physicists whose accomplishments are actually in the same league as Diracs

  • @wojtekrynkowski2172
    @wojtekrynkowski2172 Рік тому

    Good job.

  • @gurnblanston5000
    @gurnblanston5000 6 місяців тому +1

    What if Dirac was the Bill Burr of Physics?? Would Einstein be the Bob Ross of Physics?

  • @gayathrijinesh3004
    @gayathrijinesh3004 3 роки тому +10

    This is where the idea for 'Sheldon Cooper' came from.

    • @RamanujanPi
      @RamanujanPi 2 роки тому

      Yes yes you are right he like me 😍

    • @aniruddhasenapati184
      @aniruddhasenapati184 2 роки тому

      Sheldon Cooper is 141423787878 words per minute unlike Dirac's 1 word per minute

  • @timecode37
    @timecode37 11 місяців тому

    0:22 should have been on the voyager disk to represent britain

  • @realimage3656
    @realimage3656 3 роки тому +1

    good!

  • @_AmbujJaiswal
    @_AmbujJaiswal 3 роки тому

    Great work buddy🙂

  • @hrperformance
    @hrperformance Рік тому +1

    It was the student asking about an equation that set me off 😂

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf Рік тому +2

      But the student didn’t ask!

  • @itrymariti
    @itrymariti Рік тому +1

    This was more jokes than I thought it would be

  • @wojtek0x458
    @wojtek0x458 Рік тому +3

    This is word for word from his Wikipedia page. I know this because it was a very interesting read!

  • @RamanujanPi
    @RamanujanPi Рік тому +1

    I read all when i. Was a engineer

  • @xepho8205
    @xepho8205 Рік тому +1

    😃😃 what a great man!

  • @CGMaat
    @CGMaat Рік тому

    I LOVE PHYSICS - GREAT FUNNY MORSELS- THANKS

  • @NeverTalkToCops1
    @NeverTalkToCops1 Рік тому

    Dirac. Is that not some Dr. Who villain?

  • @DiracXYZ
    @DiracXYZ Рік тому

    Dirac

  • @jamesyeung3286
    @jamesyeung3286 9 місяців тому

    he literally me fr

  • @mauriciofurlan7773
    @mauriciofurlan7773 2 роки тому

    Podia colocar legendas em português

    • @Joao456Zamper
      @Joao456Zamper Рік тому

      Usa a tradução automática, deve ser suficiente.

  • @HenryCasillas
    @HenryCasillas 2 роки тому +1

    ☮️

  • @SC-jh9qp
    @SC-jh9qp Рік тому +4

    Did he have Aspergers Syndrome?

    • @terencemeikle534
      @terencemeikle534 Рік тому +1

      Very possibly. It seems that Feynman may well have had it too, but that it manifested in the two men in opposite ways.

  • @GH-oi2jf
    @GH-oi2jf Рік тому

    My kind of guy. But I like Feynman also.

  • @davidtrindle6473
    @davidtrindle6473 Рік тому

    This is read verbatim from Wikipedia

  • @Frisbieinstein
    @Frisbieinstein Рік тому

    I'd read the first four before.

  • @venkat4167
    @venkat4167 10 місяців тому

    Dr. Sheldon Cooper

  • @afmikasenpai
    @afmikasenpai 2 роки тому +3

    The only physicist I can relate to although I am not as smart as him.

    • @anaccount8474
      @anaccount8474 Рік тому

      If you were as smart as him you wouldn't be posting comments on youtube.

  • @jjeherrera
    @jjeherrera Рік тому

    Dirac was a Vulcan. 😀

  • @JeffWells-cw2sw
    @JeffWells-cw2sw Рік тому

    Werner is pronounced "Verner..."

  • @tomereckhous1175
    @tomereckhous1175 6 місяців тому

    Very simple, in today's term he would be diagnosed with Asperger, Sheldon Copper style

  • @disonaroaurelo
    @disonaroaurelo 8 місяців тому

    Quantum cinematic universe.

  • @Info-Mafia
    @Info-Mafia 10 місяців тому

    So dark the con of governments.

  • @suvankardutta3412
    @suvankardutta3412 Рік тому

    His best work , About Dirac sea is out standing.

  • @bobwhalen1181
    @bobwhalen1181 Рік тому

    Think it was Dirac, after reviewing someones work with great displeasure said - This isn't even wrong.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf Рік тому

      That has been said by other physicists.

    • @11everhard
      @11everhard 4 місяці тому

      That kind of comment was typical for Pauli.

  • @philb4462
    @philb4462 Рік тому

    I can't hear that computer-generated voice without thinking it's trying to sell me something that is clearly bullshit. Am I alone in that?

  • @RamanujanPi
    @RamanujanPi Рік тому +1

    At the time 19s. People do study regardless of own intelligence 😢

  • @drbonesshow1
    @drbonesshow1 6 місяців тому

    I enjoyed his talkative wife.

  • @TomSkinner
    @TomSkinner Рік тому

    Not sure about hilarious, don't quit your day job as one of the most amazing minds ever.

  • @RamanujanPi
    @RamanujanPi Рік тому +1

    How do you know before that the girls are nice 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @anaccount8474
    @anaccount8474 Рік тому

    I think his snarky comment at Feynman meant I have an equation, you have a diagram. Equation trump diagram.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf Рік тому

      I don’t think he was being snarky. He was not a conversationalist.

    • @anaccount8474
      @anaccount8474 Рік тому

      @@GH-oi2jf Dirac was totally unimpressed by Feynman and he was dismissive of the QED work done by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonago. He regarded it is mathematically ugly and little more than a patch on the mathematical problems of his own quantum field theory.

  • @davepowell6835
    @davepowell6835 Рік тому +2

    Sounds like he had some degree of autism as they have a tendency to take statements at face value

  • @stephencarlsbad
    @stephencarlsbad Рік тому

    Dirac clearly had Aspergers.

  • @fusionfan6883
    @fusionfan6883 4 місяці тому +1

    Dirac was almost certainly on the Autism spectrum, that is why he struggled with social cues.

  • @ericephemetherson3964
    @ericephemetherson3964 Рік тому

    I never considered Feynman a good physicist.

    • @simonkim8646
      @simonkim8646 Рік тому +3

      There's still time, you can do it!

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf Рік тому +1

      He was a brilliant physicist who had a great ability to explain things to people of ordinary intelligence.

  • @officialchannel1292
    @officialchannel1292 8 місяців тому

    lmao

  • @myu4039
    @myu4039 Рік тому

    Asperger's

  • @darlenewaldron3621
    @darlenewaldron3621 Рік тому +2

    The WONDERS of physics endered 50 years ago. Physics as any physics enthusiast will know is stuck in a quagmire unable to proceed beyond the standard model.

    • @andsalomoni
      @andsalomoni Рік тому

      They just have to stop building monstrous colliders, and start searching for new ideas again.

  • @kierhudson1328
    @kierhudson1328 Рік тому

    Such a shame that he was regarded as strange, he was probably highly autistic and desperately wanted to talk, who knows.

  • @feynmanschwingere_mc2270
    @feynmanschwingere_mc2270 Рік тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @thebeautifulones5436
    @thebeautifulones5436 2 роки тому +1

    Maxwell wrote poetry. It was awful

  • @benaxx
    @benaxx 2 місяці тому

    La traduzione fa pena

  • @Caturiya
    @Caturiya Рік тому

    It us too fast to me
    So I understand nothing. Why physics teils New and poetry not.
    Poetry of mine:
    Inertia he did Not put in question: ni Einstein nor Feynman.
    I put it in question, so I am a blame man. Inertia one can Not define. Thats why I all them blame.

    • @RamanujanPi
      @RamanujanPi Рік тому

      How do you know before that the girls are nice 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Caturiya
      @Caturiya Рік тому

      @@RamanujanPi Curls of Grace are so nice. Love makes all nice. Which does not mean that there is a heartfull accordance . But here one speak on PHYSICS. One likes to make me an idiot everywhere. Better I do no more speak..

    • @Caturiya
      @Caturiya Рік тому

      @@RamanujanPi PHSIK HIER

  • @lewisjones2825
    @lewisjones2825 Рік тому

    Not quite hilarious, though

  • @luigicirelli2583
    @luigicirelli2583 9 місяців тому

    a fake voice; please put a human to read, even if it doesn't sound good to you

  • @childofthe60s100
    @childofthe60s100 2 роки тому +2

    HILARIOUS????
    That's clickbait!!!!
    Dirac was a great mathematician and physicist - NOT a comedian!

    • @atharvdawolf398
      @atharvdawolf398 2 роки тому

      No bro I just click random... after read your comment I wonder what was the thumbnail and title 😂

  • @icedcoffee8561
    @icedcoffee8561 3 роки тому +2

    I love this! I bother almost everyone i know with these same weird philosophical/psychological ideas, asking questions and offending people..... I bet Paul Dirac took acid/shrooms/salvia at some point, or lots of meditation, it's like it unlocks this area of your brain that allows you to think outside the box
    that being said, a few of these from Paul are a little out there

    • @shivammishra1720
      @shivammishra1720 3 роки тому +5

      "I bet Paul Dirac took acid/shrooms/salvia at some point, or lots of meditation, it's like it unlocks this area of your brain that allows you to think outside the box".
      Bare assertion fallacy. How do you know he took these things? There is no evidence for this assertion of yours.

    • @topdog5252
      @topdog5252 2 роки тому +1

      @@shivammishra1720 it makes some sense to me that it could be possible in context of what I’ve heard of very rationalist less open and empathetic people like Dirac doing psychedelics and opening their experience to other perspectives. In a lecture on Dirac here on Yt it said he started enjoying classical music and easing up his character a bit more in his older years. To be clear I have no clue if he ever did psychedelics or meditation but anything is possible, and I’ve heard of what I think the original commenter was alluding to before. My favourite UA-camr is Steven Mark Ryan (Solving the Money Problem) and he is on the autism spectrum and naturally cares a lot about truth and physics and is very rational. He has reported immense personal value from both psychedelics and meditation (but particularly psychedelics). I think he reported after taking LSD several times, great gains in feeling empathy and more emotion in social interaction, such that lots of friends and family noticed a change and asked him. He was simply saying there were experiences that changed him for the better and opened him to places he didn’t know had value. I’m expressing this horribly, but this is just my thoughts that I do sort of get how one might think Dirac did psychedelics or meditation and personally gained from them.

    • @dmitryshusterman9494
      @dmitryshusterman9494 Рік тому

      More like he was a bit autistic

  • @medexamtoolscom
    @medexamtoolscom Рік тому +1

    I often say a similarly negative thing about poetry. I say a writer of prose is like an architect who designs a house, and every part of the design serves a logical purpose, while a poet is like a modern artist, who hits a canvas with a big splat of paint and then wants praise for his intellect. Also, none of these things are hilarious. They're just true and relevant statements. Like that first one, he simply pointed out the flaw in the previous statement.