I had the privilege of being his student and he supervised my doctoral dissertation. His brilliance as a physicist was only matched by his extraordinary gifts as a teacher. He drew the best out of everyone of his students. He. Was funny and witty but kind and gracious. And there was that accent! Didn’t he realize that Nobel-Prize winners weren’t suppose to sound like Brooklyn Dodger fans? He was also an artist. Most of all he was an educator; he made minds grow. I’ll never be able to loose the phrase, “jiggling atoms” from my vocabulary. He died too young and we shall not see his like again.
I also knew him, but from continuing ed classes at Hughes Aircraft. I had quite a few chats with him, almost every week after class. "Jiggling" was definitely his favorite word. I still wonder if that had anything to do with his hanging out in strip clubs. I love listening to his famous Cornell lecture on QM and reflecting on the fact that he sounds just like the Ed Norton character from The Honeymooners. If you ever have a chance to see Alan Alda play him in QED, DO NOT MISS IT. It was just like another visit with him. He once crushed me in a philosophical argument over whether partons had any reality other than being a quantum number if, in principle, one cannot observe an isolated parton. All he said was "Prove to me [by direct observation] that a brick has an inside... Surely you don't mean to suggest that bricks don't "actually" have insides just because you can't see them." Later I read that EXACT SAME argument about something else in "Surely You're Joking". I got punked! Not only was he a great teacher, he was a great and humble learner [the only thing he may have been humble about :)]. He once picked my brains about some basics about feedback control theory, of which he was completely ignorant at the time. He needed to understand it for a project he was working on. A week later, he was an expert on the subject.
I’m currently doing my PhD in physics and several times I’ve let doubt creep into my mind about whether or not to continue. This man’s books, videos, and lectures always remind me why I choose to do this; because science is fun and beautiful and you have to remember that that’s why you do it, not for a paycheck or a piece of paper or a title, but because it’s this fun, wonderful thing to be explored. Wish he was still alive
@@GoatTrucking His brilliance is his original thinking and questioning everything. I think the consensus that views gravity as the ruling force in the cosmos will one day be seen as being as delusional as we view flat earthers today. We have lost a 100 years down a rabbit hole of abstract mathematical circular logic bolstered by CGI which helps perpetuate the fantasy of a gravity centered cosmos.
While working on the Manhattan project, as a practical joke, Richo would trick his coworkers into thinking that an enemy spy had made off with research / classified information. So yes he was definitely a child at heart
@@user-vt5io2il8p lol the story goes deeper than that! Breaking into safes by guessing combinations, breaking into safes via mathematical schemes & pin sounds, writing notes to fuck with the safe owners, Teller (Or Wheeler?) guessing that Feynman had broken into their desk without even looking... the list goes on. Or how about the fact that one of the more influential scientists (Karl Franz? Fusch? I can't remember at the moment lol) WAS ACTUALLY A SPY. wild times in los alamos, no doubt; Feynman knew how to have fun
When I was a kid going to high school (Pasadena High School), I was a member of the Calculus Club. Occasionally we had this quirky professor come over from Caltech and tutor us. (There were only about a dozen of us in the Calc Club.) Professor Richard didn't seem to be very interested in teaching us math or physics. He was more interested in getting us to think, be inquisitive, think outside the box, ask questions, don't follow conventional wisdom. (At the time there were new technologies being developed to look at the world differently. Mankind was beginning to explore space with satellites and probes. New instruments were being developed to examine the world around us - like the electron microscope). Professor Richard had a profound impact on the way I saw the world around me. I didn't know him as Dr. Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner; he was just Professor Richard........
You're so lucky to have a first hand dose of his enthusiasm. I thought I read you were a member of the Cactus Club when I first skimmed your comment. ??? LOL
I love how he flips from genius to happy kid when finishes explaining something. Like "Isn't it a delight to learn and think about this stuff?" Yes. Yes it is.
Feynman proved, once again, that one of the most powerful cures to boredom and the antidote to depression and the way to find life exciting is to have and retain a child's curiosity about the world around us, a curiosity strong enough so that it morphs into obtaining the answers to questions about the how's and why's of our universe and everything in it.
yes, i agree too. i think it's the most important thing there is. And I know that there is such a big problem with religions in the world and past, but even Jesus says you have to be like a child to receive heaven on earth, you just said it even better tho. thanks for sharing that
@@xmseocontentnow3242 Thanks for the compliment. The paraphrasing of Jesus, though, was in a different context. He meant that, to have faith, one must relieve oneself of an adult's critical thinking skills and, instead, be innocent like a child. This means accepting Jesus by faith alone. This is exactly the opposite of what I was stating.
Thats your interpretation of what he said and to me it sounds the same as yours. a child's curiosity about the world can only be born from innocence. Critical thinking is what led me to know God is real, so there again I state a difference of opinion, and in the way and context of his parables in the setting of this one in paticular I would have to say that your interpretation can not be valid. He would not tell his disciples to stop their critical thinking while giving them riddles all the time. Plus it wasnt speaking about faith, he was talking about the Kingdom of heaven, which he always said would be built here. As a matter of fact he said dont pray for god knows whats in our hearts, just go shut ourselves in our closets and say the lords prayer, "thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. The Goal was always to show God that he can come down here, but he is also all around us already, and that if we were nice to each other like children and love each other it would be his kingdom and just realizing how peaceful and serene that could be would be paradise if everyone would be that way. @@lazurm
@@xmseocontentnow3242 I was a little confused by your last post here as you seemed to be contradicting yourself at times. But, in the interest of learning and understanding, I'll continue. You stated, "a child's curiosity about the world can only be born from innocence", but I believe that curiosity is a trait we are born with as a survival tool because, without it, we aren't motivated to learn and, thereby, survive. In other words, curiosity is inherent in our structure and, sometimes, it's driven away by people who prefer an authoritarian (and unquestioning) system. You stated, "Critical thinking is what led me to know God is real...." but Jesus didn't encourage critical thinking and, instead, preached that God is known by faith alone. Faith is believing in something without (scientific, that is, measurable, repeatable, predictable, etc.) evidence. In other words, there is no SCIENTIFIC evidence that God exists and, in fact, the very definition of God is so variable over time, culture and philosophical beliefs that the concept is too blurry to be measured. So, you couldn't have possibly used true critical thinking to come to your current belief in God. The riddles involve logic which, though part of critical thinking, doesn't encompass all of the components of critical thinking. From an online definition of "critical thinking": "Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. It is about being able to evaluate information and form judgments in a fair and unbiased way. Critical thinkers are able to identify and challenge assumptions, identify and avoid common fallacies in reasoning, and make informed decisions based on evidence." I could go on here but I think that I've already said enough to deal with at this time.
I have met couple of brilliant minds in my life. They all had something common in them that I never could express. The very same thing radiates from Feynman.
He was my father's favorite teacher... He was lucky enough to have him at Caltech... I still have his physics book from that class with his homework in it. My dad landed at Bell Labs, an electrical engineer. ..as a child I thought he drove a train. Over the years, spurred on by my dad's enthusiasm I've plowed through reading Feynman's books and watching his lectures, somehow makes me feel closer to my dad...I'm pretty sure he inspired my dad to pick up the bongos...and why I have some too. *We were all lucky to live in a time that produced such an amazing mind.. gotta love it...the constant jiggling💕
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Donna, Parts of Richard Feynman's magic & genius were in your Dad's mind and are in you ! Do enjoy his smiling way at explaining physics with fun ! He is brilliant !
I've listened to Fun to Imagine from beginning to end a dozen times in my life. Nobody made science seem so fun as Feynman, he and Sagan shaped my life.
Thank you for keeping his legacy alive all these years. This video is very important to me. Thank you. You have inspired me. This interview couldnt have happend without you. Greetings from an 18 year old boy from the Netherlands
I... I have to do this... : 00:50 Jiggling Atoms 07:18 Fire 12:08 Rubber Bands 14:53 Magnets 22:29 Electricity 32:05 Mirror and Train puzzles 37:46 Seeing Things 43:43 Big Numbers 55:01 Ways of Thinking
@Dm3qXY fraternity riddles between members to impress others; Optical vs audible representation of numbers Opening safes Practical jokes Playing banjo to bring kids to the table
The greatest thing about the view is just how excited he seems while explaining it you can tell it truly makes him happy to explain and share the knowledge he has learned himself
The magnet question is my favourite Feynman clip; the interviewer seemingly exasperated at first that no simple answer is forthcoming, being gently let down with a beautiful, elegant explanation of complexity.
and so there is a tremendous force, and all the little balls are bouncing off eachother, and you can imagine a little insect sitting in the side of your brain, observering all this chaos going on and we say what is that?
While my 11 year old makes his lego technics car in the living room, right before his bed time, i put this on together with one of those 4 hour long ultra relaxing ambient mixes. Then after about an half an hour of building and concentration, he asks me a question about light or heat or energy, then we talk a bit, then the ambient+lego+feynman combination continues. This is like medicine for his ADHD.
@@artham6565 Nobel Prizes or Honours are NOT necessarily an indication of Good Teaching Skills. Even I am better than Feynman in some ways. I love Teaching and Explaining Things in Simple Ways. But do I have a Nobel Prize ? Nope. Will I ever get one ? Probably not. Why ? Coz I just don't have the Opportunities anymore.
@@artham6565 He is not just a random TH-camr. He is a Physicist. His way of explaining is way better than that of Feynman. I finally understood what Energy means because of one of his videos. He is brilliant. I think people should stop judging on the basis of honours. Feynman himself didn't like honors, by the way. Haha !
I'll take it one further.. We are made of atoms that where manufactured in the hearts of stars, which where kind enough to go super nova, spreading their enriched guts out creating our solar system. Since we are made of the universe, it can be said, that we are the universe trying to figure out what itself is. The universes brain, if you will.
“You can learn a lot by having a bicycle.” What a brilliant way of articulating that changing the approach to looking at something has the potential to repurpose it’s existence.
Thank you for those words. I am going to do something similar with our Creator. Prove existence and is all good again, and destroy all the religions and books, because everyone will just know again. Thank you!
There will never be proof of God until the sky opens. Until then, fool's errand, and you haven't thought through. You are talking about destroying faith. Fortunately, you do not have that ability.@@LogosInsula
The sky has opened, look at hawaii and Argentina, God is provable, I have discovered that the firmament is real. And the mark of Gods covenant is aurora borealis, science finally admits waters are in space, just plasma not liquid, everything proves God is real, The fire and brimstone is the Plasma from the Sun, and is the rains from heaven or the latter rain, @@pearz420
@@pearz420 Evidence 1 MAGNETOSPHERES Images and Likeness A magnetosphere is the region around a planet dominated by the planet's magnetic field. Earth has the strongest one of all the rocky planets: Earth's magnetosphere is a vast, comet-shaped bubble, which has played a crucial role in our planet's habitability. Life on Earth initially developed and continues under the protection of this magnetic shield from solar and cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind - the constant flow of charged hydrogen and oxygen ions and other irradiated subatomic particles streaming off the sun. We’ve known for a long time that there is water in space, but an international team of scientists has found a cloud of water vapor recently that is hundreds of light-years in diameter and surrounds a Quasar that is around a black hole. The magnetosphere has an area called the magnetopause that is the space of magnetic division between super heated plasma from the Sun and the Ozone layer of Earth at the beginning of our atmosphere. It is generated by the convective motion of charged, molten iron, far below the surface in Earth's outer core. Constant bombardment by the solar wind compresses the sun-facing side of our magnetic field into a barrier against this sea of irradiated and supercharged hydrogen and oxygen plasmas. The sun-facing side, or dayside, extends about six to 10 times the radius of the Earth. The side of the magnetosphere facing away from the sun - the nightside - stretches out into an immense magnetotail, which fluctuates in length and can measure hundreds of Earth radii, far past the moon's orbit at 60 Earth radii. In the intro to astrophysics text book it is describes as an ocean of plasma and its waves lap at our magnetosphere shores. This magnetosphere is described rather well on the first page of the Bible and other scriptures. It is also the shape of the Egyptian ankh, the Knot of Isis, The Celtic cross, and other holy symbols. ___________ Ge 1:1 IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters **Deep here means space (we call it deep space) and the waters are not liquid but still considered water. lines up with astrophysics. Google 'water in space" if you don't believe me. ** _________________ 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. ** Here God is describing the creation of the Heaven and Earth again, you will notice that when it is God's words he has the same sort of Inflection and voice; in that he repeats himself often and in different ways to stress the understanding. This firmament must be the magnetosphere or pause since here it divides water and water as the other one does as well. There is only 1 thing that divides water from space water, so it is one and the same. Remember that he called it Heaven here, this will be used later for context. ** _____________________ 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ** If you look up magnetosphere and compare it to an image of the restroom door man symbol, or door woman symbol, you will notice that they are near identical and so is the Knot of Isis and the Ankh. Strangely enough, even different models seem to be torn between these.** This is the image that god said "them in OUR image and likeness" Ge 1:26-27. Ge 1:6-8. Ge 1:1-2. This is not the extent of my proof aaaand Evidence 2 of 4 to be continued shortly. Also Videos and pictures explaining this are on my page. I'm not good at making them so be nice please. Part 2 The mysterious ash layer and the flood
Feynman was possibly the greatest example of a math genius who could also explain himself reasonably well to non-mathematicians. The fact that he took 1st place in the Putnam Competition and could still tie his own shoes speaks to his verbal and non-linear problem solving skills, which are often atrophied or unnecessary in math geniuses.
yes but he was also extremely arrogant, the way normal people cannot be. Leonard Susskind in his TED talk on Feynman recounts how he was even more arrogant than him! And admits he is extremely arrogant himself.
@@firstal3799 I'd imagine when dealing with a genius of Feynman's level, you probably just try to stay out of the way of his brain as it moves around the planet. They tend to be very quirky. Einstein refused to wear socks, slept 11 hours a day and smoked cigarette butts he found on the street. "Whatever you say, sir!"
@@firstal3799 Perhaps. But it is pretty well known that when people get into the I.Q. range he had to have been in, you start getting... 'quirks of personality'. to say the least.
I used to sleep to this, it motivated me into busting my behind in school. It was like crack cocaine for me, you would not be able to stop me from learning as much as I could about math and science. I still suck at the subject, but it’s the thought that counts. But because of this man, I started to visualize nature in a similar manner. The more knowledge you attain about the world, the better you see it ebb and flow.
Feynman doesn't see humans, chair, coffee cup, or table he sees a bunch of molecules Jiggling. I remember reading "Surely you re joking Mr Feynman" when I was 20-21. People like Feynman live forever in our hearts.
I know he’s a genius but when he talks the adjective that always come to mind is adorable. I can’t help but smile when he gets all happy about what he’s describing. So adorable.
The human race should treasure people like this, not just because of his knowledge of physics and the universe but because he demonstrated the ability to explain complex things in terms which make it easy for the average person to understand and with such enthusiasm for the subject that you can't help but get swept along for the ride.
@@MrKeithy22 none of them do. 99% of them have no idea, they think they know but they're wrong, at least he sort of gracefully avoided trying to answer that. Read between the lines of what he rants about with knowing the correct question "why" to ask, saying what we are permitted to know.....I think he knows more than he leads you to believe he knows from his rant.
@@mpirron1 yes he didnt say a single that that had any substance, all he did was dance around the question and try to save ego by trying to humiliate the interviewer with his inflection of voice and choice of wording, it's obvious he has no clue
It's like his excitement and joy over it all occasionally bubbles over and he can't contain it any longer. Such a uniquely infectious communicator. I can listen to him talk about literally anything.
Sometimes he almost appears to get mad as if he can't understand why nobody else finds it as exciting as he does. And then he calms himself and goes back on with the explanation
that's true. It's about being curious, about wanting to know the unknown. Describing it to others. Science in a nutshell: Observation, question, gathering information/analysis/diagnostics, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, making conclusions, reporting, and evaluating. Science becomes fact when it is repeated in similar forms by different people with similar outcomes. But any douche can be curious… and act on it.
Not everyone. And that is the point and strength of humanity. We are interested in different things and that determines what we spend most of our time with. And the more time you spend with something, the better you will be at it. Diversity is the key.
@@azynkron provided how systematic the approach to study science can be. Trust me buddy, pretty much everyone can. The only difference is some people have better intuition than others which allows them to understand certain concepts faster. So the time to learn varies alot. But whether or not you can learn is the same for 99% of people.
Nothing regular about richard feynman. Believing that is a quite modern idea and from his point of view I believe, a sitting-in-the-Ivory-Tower issue. You can be curious and you should be, it's awesome to learn new stuff! You can listen to podcasts, watch nice representation of hard concepts all day and might even practice some things you see. But you'll never get to the meat of things like a richard feynman does simply because you don't have the brain juice to do it! Not now and not after 100ys of training. People believe from listening to YT videos they could do anything scientific while they struggle with high-school linear algebra and simple calculus. This is not a minor issue, that's the major issue! People are born equal is one of the biggest lie we tell ourselfs. You might become somewhat proficient with good training from an early stage but you'll never be extraordinary like gifted people WITH GOOD TRAINING can become.
and then he would end his video with "please hit the subscribe button below.... but do you know what actually happens when you hit that plastic button with your finger? well ,let me tell you, ... and so on and so forth...."
@@bekiedude I will also explain to you that that "Subscribe" button is not made of plastic nor your finger is actually touching that thing. Ouch i have go back to magnetic and electrical forces, which i cant explain to you in any other way that you are familiar with. 😂😂😂
I rarely ever comment about anything especially for a video of a guy who can't read my comment but he was just a sweet heart with such an energic mind. Love him!
Following my retirement a year ago, I sat down and tried to figure out "what do I do next?" I had always wanted to get my PhD and always told myself, "after I retire...then I will get it done!" But last year I decided that I didn't have the desire anymore. Who knows how much time I have left? Why should I study math? Why should I try to pick up where I left off in college many years ago? Absently minded video browsing a couple days ago, I accidentally started a Richard Feynman binge. All of my old math and physics college books are now on a COSTCO table in our TV room, plus graph paper, my laptop, and lots of scratch paper. I have also listed a number of math and science videos to watch and get back up to speed. Dr. Feynman lit a fire under my sorry ass!
when I was a kid I really wasn’t good at anything in school, an under-achiever really. Even though I enjoyed the mystery and curiosity of science, I was never enthusiastic about it nor was I around anyone who showed any enthusiasm. I’m 31 now and I absolutely LOVE reading and listening to this, especially when it’s from someone like this. This is more interesting to me than most top-rated binge-worthy Netflix shows. I work in sound/music and so his first comments were quite fitting and made me laugh. Kinda wish I had this level of interest for science and physics back when I was a kid in school.
Amen. Same here Do you have children of your own? Or siblings with children? This could be your chance to help them develop the love of science. That's what I am planning for.
Even though I have studied chemistry, I still find it marvelous to listen to him explain how fire works. His analogies are both simple and perfectly on point.
I was fortunate to have been in the room when he visited UC Irvine in the late 1970’s. The Student Physics Society had invited him to speak about QED. He said he’d be happy to come but only if we didn’t tell the faculty (we studied under Fred Reines another Noble Laureate) because they’d want to give him some kind of award and a big dinner. It was memorable experience even to this day.
I fell asleep with a playlist playing that had this video in it. In one of my dreams I found myself thinking, "This guy sounds a lot like Richard Feynman!"
I don’t know why, but it’s hilarious to me that one of the smartest people to ever live had an accent that makes him sound like uncle junior from the sopranos.
This man was a genius, I wish he was alive today I would've hugged him so tight in my arms, Sir Richard Fayman I love you so much and thank you for everything. Regards from #Afghanistan
OMG! 4 years of science in 10 minutes...I would have been blessed to have had a teacher like him. Painless learning is SO much fun. I'm 70 & enjoy the hell out of this.
I watched this video twice in a day and i might even watch it again to absorb it all. Thanks to whomever had the idea to interview Richard and put it on film for us schlepps in the future. Brilliance always shines.
True I love him, Kip thorn and Kim Peeks. When I make a reference to Kim Peeks I frefer to resolvoving the space/time coordinates that makes Star Gastes possible. Also faster than E+mc2
I bet Feynman would've never dreamed that almost 2 million people would watch this. The magic of TH-cam allows him to teach millions of people even after death.
I just took a nap letting youtube play whatever it wants in the background, and this comes on. At first I woke up, wondering who is shouting and arguing. As I gradually came back to my senses I listened intently, trying to make out what is being talked about as well as where it is coming from. And when I was aware that it must be some kind of scientist + philosopher I completely woke up, just wondering who by the gods is behind that stern and loud, yet comforting voice, and why does he make so much sense. It was a very weird and interesting experience learning about/being reminded of forces and laws that make up our world, while halfway sleeping.
Holy crap…I just did that too! Fell asleep watching a different video and woke up to this brilliance. I can’t believe two other people did so as well just a few hours ago.
Put this on and clean the house. I heard something today. If we don't have the language the words for something, we have no ability to discuss things, outside of our language. So true. So very true.
Seeing someone having so much fun while doing something is certainly contagious. Great scientist like him always have genuinely childish curiosity which makes listening and watching them share their knowlegde so interesting for us.
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.” -Richard P. Feynman
The guy asks him an impossible "Why?" question and Feynman, gentleman that he was, super intellect that he was, fashions an answer that amounts to a masterful essay on the very nature of asking why.
Don't know if we'll ever see someone like him again. Geniuses come and go, but I can't think of anyone else with this level of knowledge who also has such charisma, and the ability to communicate scientific ideas in such an enthralling way.
This guy here. He was such an inspiration to me, and continues to be so. I'm on my way, learning mathematics now and taking physics classes in the near future, and listening to him talk about whatever pops into his head reminds me all over again why I love this stuff so much. I wish I could tell him how much it means and how grateful I am that these recording were made.
Richard Feynman is the Robin Williams of Physics. He was raised to be deeply curious, and his upbringing created this wonder of a man. His creativity, imagination and excitement for guessing the "how and why" is what every great teacher should pursue. Take note of his "ways of thinking" when developing AI applications.
Here I am, listening to Richard Feynman at 3:50am at my own leisure. How else would I be able to do that if not for internet & TH-cam? Even if I knew Mr. Feynman personally, he would have probably chase me away at this hour instead of having this conversation. I mean, internet and TH-cam and other stuff are a given these days but this is just astonishing when you think about it.
Throughout my entire live I have never seen such honest intent and joy out of someone explaining, especially physics. This is my favorite video of all time, it sparks with joy and always motivates me whilst creating a smile on my face. Whenever I'm down I just watch this, cry a little and then get back to live, knowing there are curious and happy people out there who thrive to become the best of themselves and helping others. He is a true idol. Thank you Richard Feynman for who you were, may you rest in peace and be gratefully for your contribution to humanity.
I could listen to Feynman talk for hundreds of hours on end. He is like a little kid discovering things for the first time. His excitement with understanding even the simplest concepts is infectious. I strived to be the kind of teacher who explained Physics using the simplest concepts with understandable vocabulary and stories. M teaching of hot, cold, and thermal energy is actually not that much different from his. I never used jiggling, but used shaking and vibrating instead.
He speaks in such simple way so that everyone can understand, And his simple explanation is so deeply connected that the science people can relate.The art of explaining science...
I had the privilege of being his student and he supervised my doctoral dissertation. His brilliance as a physicist was only matched by his extraordinary gifts as a teacher. He drew the best out of everyone of his students. He. Was funny and witty but kind and gracious. And there was that accent! Didn’t he realize that Nobel-Prize winners weren’t suppose to sound like Brooklyn Dodger fans? He was also an artist. Most of all he was an educator; he made minds grow. I’ll never be able to loose the phrase, “jiggling atoms” from my vocabulary. He died too young and we shall not see his like again.
I'm jealous.
I also knew him, but from continuing ed classes at Hughes Aircraft. I had quite a few chats with him, almost every week after class.
"Jiggling" was definitely his favorite word. I still wonder if that had anything to do with his hanging out in strip clubs.
I love listening to his famous Cornell lecture on QM and reflecting on the fact that he sounds just like the Ed Norton character from The Honeymooners.
If you ever have a chance to see Alan Alda play him in QED, DO NOT MISS IT. It was just like another visit with him.
He once crushed me in a philosophical argument over whether partons had any reality other than being a quantum number if, in principle, one cannot observe an isolated parton. All he said was "Prove to me [by direct observation] that a brick has an inside... Surely you don't mean to suggest that bricks don't "actually" have insides just because you can't see them."
Later I read that EXACT SAME argument about something else in "Surely You're Joking". I got punked!
Not only was he a great teacher, he was a great and humble learner [the only thing he may have been humble about :)]. He once picked my brains about some basics about feedback control theory, of which he was completely ignorant at the time. He needed to understand it for a project he was working on. A week later, he was an expert on the subject.
You’re so lucky
Whoa! That's cooler than having Ned Stark as your dad
@@VajraSutra Oh wow, he taught English too?? I had no idea!
I am so thankful some person thought, "We need to just let this brilliant man talk and record it" whoever you were, thank you.
So fantastic. I love his take on question asking. The why and what that means. My pet peeve when teaching students of all ages.
@@things_leftunsaid, as he stated that would result in a different imagery for multiple recipients of said information.
@@rathartscience Dt
I agree 💫🔥❤️
That person was, in fact, Christopher Sykes, and I'm really pleased his film-making is available here.
I’m currently doing my PhD in physics and several times I’ve let doubt creep into my mind about whether or not to continue. This man’s books, videos, and lectures always remind me why I choose to do this; because science is fun and beautiful and you have to remember that that’s why you do it, not for a paycheck or a piece of paper or a title, but because it’s this fun, wonderful thing to be explored. Wish he was still alive
Edgy .. don't give up. World need more good physicists .Physics is everything and we still needed it forever and ever. Good luck!
I’m 16 and i want to be a theoretical physicist too. I’m doing my GCSE’s now and its quite hard but i hope one day I’ll get a PhD too!!
@@babyyoda9943 tell me how it goes cos I did mine last year
I'm now 60 years old. I first saw this on the BBC 40 years ago. Wonderful!
"If you think science is boring, you are learning from a wrong teacher"
- Richard Feynman
Oh how I wish I had a teacher like this when I was in school. I would have fallen in love with physics.
The blue eyed boy from the Manhattan project who pointed out we have no theory of gravity except for the mathematical ones.
@@GoatTrucking His brilliance is his original thinking and questioning everything. I think the consensus that views gravity as the ruling force in the cosmos will one day be seen as being as delusional as we view flat earthers today. We have lost a 100 years down a rabbit hole of abstract mathematical circular logic bolstered by CGI which helps perpetuate the fantasy of a gravity centered cosmos.
Wish I could find this comments more than 1 thumbs up...
Deserves 2 thumbs up
he done what most adults can only dream about, he never grew up.
lol, you made me think of Peter Pan and the oldschool theme song from Toys R Us, "I don't wanna grow up, I'ma Toys R Us Kid."
While working on the Manhattan project, as a practical joke, Richo would trick his coworkers into thinking that an enemy spy had made off with research / classified information. So yes he was definitely a child at heart
@@user-vt5io2il8p lol the story goes deeper than that! Breaking into safes by guessing combinations, breaking into safes via mathematical schemes & pin sounds, writing notes to fuck with the safe owners, Teller (Or Wheeler?) guessing that Feynman had broken into their desk without even looking... the list goes on. Or how about the fact that one of the more influential scientists (Karl Franz? Fusch? I can't remember at the moment lol) WAS ACTUALLY A SPY. wild times in los alamos, no doubt; Feynman knew how to have fun
@2 Clicks - He’s a legend and an inspiration 😋
He couldn't even take dying seriously! 😂♥️
When I was a kid going to high school (Pasadena High School), I was a member of the Calculus Club. Occasionally we had this quirky professor come over from Caltech and tutor us. (There were only about a dozen of us in the Calc Club.) Professor Richard didn't seem to be very interested in teaching us math or physics. He was more interested in getting us to think, be inquisitive, think outside the box, ask questions, don't follow conventional wisdom. (At the time there were new technologies being developed to look at the world differently. Mankind was beginning to explore space with satellites and probes. New instruments were being developed to examine the world around us - like the electron microscope). Professor Richard had a profound impact on the way I saw the world around me.
I didn't know him as Dr. Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner; he was just Professor Richard........
So lucky!! If I had teachers like him I wouldn't have quit school.
You're so lucky to have a first hand dose of his enthusiasm. I thought I read you were a member of the Cactus Club when I first skimmed your comment. ??? LOL
That is so cool!
I love how he flips from genius to happy kid when finishes explaining something. Like "Isn't it a delight to learn and think about this stuff?" Yes. Yes it is.
It’s really dull
@@ferise1 I might be a nerd, lol.
“It heats up simply because you’re jiggling it”
I want that on a t-shirt.
Get jiggly with it na na na na nanaaaa.....
😁😁
If only marketing was a thing back then like now lol
Feyman was an absolute treasure to all humanity.
His name is Feynman.
Feynman proved, once again, that one of the most powerful cures to boredom and the antidote to depression and the way to find life exciting is to have and retain a child's curiosity about the world around us, a curiosity strong enough so that it morphs into obtaining the answers to questions about the how's and why's of our universe and everything in it.
yes, i agree too. i think it's the most important thing there is. And I know that there is such a big problem with religions in the world and past, but even Jesus says you have to be like a child to receive heaven on earth, you just said it even better tho. thanks for sharing that
@@xmseocontentnow3242 Thanks for the compliment. The paraphrasing of Jesus, though, was in a different context. He meant that, to have faith, one must relieve oneself of an adult's critical thinking skills and, instead, be innocent like a child. This means accepting Jesus by faith alone.
This is exactly the opposite of what I was stating.
Thats your interpretation of what he said and to me it sounds the same as yours. a child's curiosity about the world can only be born from innocence. Critical thinking is what led me to know God is real, so there again I state a difference of opinion, and in the way and context of his parables in the setting of this one in paticular I would have to say that your interpretation can not be valid. He would not tell his disciples to stop their critical thinking while giving them riddles all the time. Plus it wasnt speaking about faith, he was talking about the Kingdom of heaven, which he always said would be built here. As a matter of fact he said dont pray for god knows whats in our hearts, just go shut ourselves in our closets and say the lords prayer, "thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. The Goal was always to show God that he can come down here, but he is also all around us already, and that if we were nice to each other like children and love each other it would be his kingdom and just realizing how peaceful and serene that could be would be paradise if everyone would be that way.
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@@xmseocontentnow3242 I was a little confused by your last post here as you seemed to be contradicting yourself at times. But, in the interest of learning and understanding, I'll continue.
You stated, "a child's curiosity about the world can only be born from innocence", but I believe that curiosity is a trait we are born with as a survival tool because, without it, we aren't motivated to learn and, thereby, survive. In other words, curiosity is inherent in our structure and, sometimes, it's driven away by people who prefer an authoritarian (and unquestioning) system.
You stated, "Critical thinking is what led me to know God is real...." but Jesus didn't encourage critical thinking and, instead, preached that God is known by faith alone. Faith is believing in something without (scientific, that is, measurable, repeatable, predictable, etc.) evidence. In other words, there is no SCIENTIFIC evidence that God exists and, in fact, the very definition of God is so variable over time, culture and philosophical beliefs that the concept is too blurry to be measured. So, you couldn't have possibly used true critical thinking to come to your current belief in God. The riddles involve logic which, though part of critical thinking, doesn't encompass all of the components of critical thinking.
From an online definition of "critical thinking":
"Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the logical connection between ideas. It is about being able to evaluate information and form judgments in a fair and unbiased way. Critical thinkers are able to identify and challenge assumptions, identify and avoid common fallacies in reasoning, and make informed decisions based on evidence."
I could go on here but I think that I've already said enough to deal with at this time.
Cop: "Mr Feynman, why were you speeding?"
Feynman: *deep breath*
The exuberant joy with which he's telling these stories is lovely.
I have met couple of brilliant minds in my life. They all had something common in them that I never could express. The very same thing radiates from Feynman.
He was my father's favorite teacher... He was lucky enough to have him at Caltech... I still have his physics book from that class with his homework in it. My dad landed at Bell Labs, an electrical engineer. ..as a child I thought he drove a train. Over the years, spurred on by my dad's enthusiasm I've plowed through reading Feynman's books and watching his lectures, somehow makes me feel closer to my dad...I'm pretty sure he inspired my dad to pick up the bongos...and why I have some too. *We were all lucky to live in a time that produced such an amazing mind.. gotta love it...the constant jiggling💕
Donna, Parts of Richard Feynman's magic & genius were in your Dad's mind and are in you ! Do enjoy his smiling way at explaining physics with fun ! He is brilliant !
I've listened to Fun to Imagine from beginning to end a dozen times in my life. Nobody made science seem so fun as Feynman, he and Sagan shaped my life.
thank you for existing friend
It’s Feynman’s birthday!
Great day to find this video 🎉
Thank you for keeping his legacy alive all these years. This video is very important to me. Thank you. You have inspired me. This interview couldnt have happend without you.
Greetings from an 18 year old boy from the Netherlands
@@Wrijvingsloos That's nice! Glad you enjoyed it...
I... I have to do this... :
00:50 Jiggling Atoms
07:18 Fire
12:08 Rubber Bands
14:53 Magnets
22:29 Electricity
32:05 Mirror and Train puzzles
37:46 Seeing Things
43:43 Big Numbers
55:01 Ways of Thinking
Thanks man.
Thanks
Thanks, much easier to navigate :) and rewatch :)
Nice job
@Dm3qXY fraternity riddles between members to impress others;
Optical vs audible representation of numbers
Opening safes
Practical jokes
Playing banjo to bring kids to the table
The greatest thing about the view is just how excited he seems while explaining it you can tell it truly makes him happy to explain and share the knowledge he has learned himself
The magnet question is my favourite Feynman clip; the interviewer seemingly exasperated at first that no simple answer is forthcoming, being gently let down with a beautiful, elegant explanation of complexity.
what a stunning answer! there is some allusion to this in oppenheimer too...
It's hard not to love Richard. My brain atoms are jiggling.
and so there is a tremendous force, and all the little balls are bouncing off eachother, and you can imagine a little insect sitting in the side of your brain, observering all this chaos going on and we say what is that?
A smart man can make something very simple sound incredibly difficult.
A brilliant man can make something incredibly difficult sound very simple.
Whoever cleaned up this audio is a global hero.
While my 11 year old makes his lego technics car in the living room, right before his bed time, i put this on together with one of those 4 hour long ultra relaxing ambient mixes. Then after about an half an hour of building and concentration, he asks me a question about light or heat or energy, then we talk a bit, then the ambient+lego+feynman combination continues. This is like medicine for his ADHD.
He will never forget you doing this,good job dad.
No one explained science like Richard Feynman. His ability to put complex thoughts into layman's terms is legendary.
Well, you might wanna check out Nick Lucid of The Science Asylum. In some ways, he is better than Feynman.
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if he is better, where is his Noble Prize?
@@artham6565 Nobel Prizes or Honours are NOT necessarily an indication of Good Teaching Skills. Even I am better than Feynman in some ways. I love Teaching and Explaining Things in Simple Ways. But do I have a Nobel Prize ? Nope. Will I ever get one ? Probably not. Why ? Coz I just don't have the Opportunities anymore.
@@DipayanPyne94 similarly....your comment quoting a random TH-camr is un necessary, Mind it.
@@artham6565 He is not just a random TH-camr. He is a Physicist. His way of explaining is way better than that of Feynman. I finally understood what Energy means because of one of his videos. He is brilliant. I think people should stop judging on the basis of honours. Feynman himself didn't like honors, by the way. Haha !
A collection of atoms explaining themselves.
I see what you did there....hahah
Lmao this needs more recognition than my 116th like
Wow
I'll take it one further..
We are made of atoms that where manufactured in the hearts of stars, which where kind enough to go super nova, spreading their enriched guts out creating our solar system.
Since we are made of the universe, it can be said, that we are the universe trying to figure out what itself is. The universes brain, if you will.
oh he would love this, it also makes me very happy
He never lost his curious inner kid.. His smile while he explains speaks for itself ❤.. That smile is contagious..
“You can learn a lot by having a bicycle.”
What a brilliant way of articulating that changing the approach to looking at something has the potential to repurpose it’s existence.
Thank you for those words. I am going to do something similar with our Creator. Prove existence and is all good again, and destroy all the religions and books, because everyone will just know again. Thank you!
There will never be proof of God until the sky opens. Until then, fool's errand, and you haven't thought through. You are talking about destroying faith. Fortunately, you do not have that ability.@@LogosInsula
The sky has opened, look at hawaii and Argentina, God is provable, I have discovered that the firmament is real. And the mark of Gods covenant is aurora borealis, science finally admits waters are in space, just plasma not liquid, everything proves God is real, The fire and brimstone is the Plasma from the Sun, and is the rains from heaven or the latter rain,
@@pearz420
@@pearz420 Evidence 1
MAGNETOSPHERES
Images and Likeness
A magnetosphere is the region around a planet dominated by the planet's magnetic field. Earth has the strongest one of all the rocky planets: Earth's magnetosphere is a vast, comet-shaped bubble, which has played a crucial role in our planet's habitability. Life on Earth initially developed and continues under the protection of this magnetic shield from solar and cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind - the constant flow of charged hydrogen and oxygen ions and other irradiated subatomic particles streaming off the sun. We’ve known for a long time that there is water in space, but an international team of scientists has found a cloud of water vapor recently that is hundreds of light-years in diameter and surrounds a Quasar that is around a black hole. The magnetosphere has an area called the magnetopause that is the space of magnetic division between super heated plasma from the Sun and the Ozone layer of Earth at the beginning of our atmosphere. It is generated by the convective motion of charged, molten iron, far below the surface in Earth's outer core. Constant bombardment by the solar wind compresses the sun-facing side of our magnetic field into a barrier against this sea of irradiated and supercharged hydrogen and oxygen plasmas. The sun-facing side, or dayside, extends about six to 10 times the radius of the Earth. The side of the magnetosphere facing away from the sun - the nightside - stretches out into an immense magnetotail, which fluctuates in length and can measure hundreds of Earth radii, far past the moon's orbit at 60 Earth radii. In the intro to astrophysics text book it is describes as an ocean of plasma and its waves lap at our magnetosphere shores.
This magnetosphere is described rather well on the first page of the Bible and other scriptures. It is also the shape of the Egyptian ankh, the Knot of Isis, The Celtic cross, and other holy symbols.
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Ge 1:1
IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
**Deep here means space (we call it deep space) and the waters are not liquid but still considered water. lines up with astrophysics. Google 'water in space" if you don't believe me. **
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6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
** Here God is describing the creation of the Heaven and Earth again, you will notice that when it is God's words he has the same sort of Inflection and voice; in that he repeats himself often and in different ways to stress the understanding. This firmament must be the magnetosphere or pause since here it divides water and water as the other one does as well. There is only 1 thing that divides water from space water, so it is one and the same.
Remember that he called it Heaven here, this will be used later for context. **
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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
** If you look up magnetosphere and compare it to an image of the restroom door man symbol, or door woman symbol, you will notice that they are near identical and so is the Knot of Isis and the Ankh. Strangely enough, even different models seem to be torn between these.** This is the image that god said "them in OUR image and likeness"
Ge 1:26-27.
Ge 1:6-8.
Ge 1:1-2.
This is not the extent of my proof aaaand
Evidence 2 of 4 to be continued shortly. Also Videos and pictures explaining this are on my page. I'm not good at making them so be nice please.
Part 2
The mysterious ash layer and the flood
This man's enthusiasm is absolutely adorable.
watching Richard Feynman smile must be the most joyfull thing ever!
Valdemar Bønding Hansen Completely agree. He is so adorable. I can’t help but smile with him.
Even scrolling down comments and realizing how many people are moved by him gives me great pleasure
yeah, he is full of positivity, optimism
His face! You can see how much he enjoys not only the science, but sharing the knowledge, sharing the science.
Feynman was possibly the greatest example of a math genius who could also explain himself reasonably well to non-mathematicians. The fact that he took 1st place in the Putnam Competition and could still tie his own shoes speaks to his verbal and non-linear problem solving skills, which are often atrophied or unnecessary in math geniuses.
yes but he was also extremely arrogant, the way normal people cannot be. Leonard Susskind in his TED talk on Feynman recounts how he was even more arrogant than him! And admits he is extremely arrogant himself.
@@firstal3799 I'd imagine when dealing with a genius of Feynman's level, you probably just try to stay out of the way of his brain as it moves around the planet. They tend to be very quirky. Einstein refused to wear socks, slept 11 hours a day and smoked cigarette butts he found on the street. "Whatever you say, sir!"
@@jasoncarswell7458 very true!
@@firstal3799 Perhaps. But it is pretty well known that when people get into the I.Q. range he had to have been in, you start getting... 'quirks of personality'. to say the least.
I used to sleep to this, it motivated me into busting my behind in school. It was like crack cocaine for me, you would not be able to stop me from learning as much as I could about math and science. I still suck at the subject, but it’s the thought that counts.
But because of this man, I started to visualize nature in a similar manner. The more knowledge you attain about the world, the better you see it ebb and flow.
"I can't stop. I could talk forever."
That's fine with me, because I could listen forever.
4:36
Feynman doesn't see humans, chair, coffee cup, or table he sees a bunch of molecules Jiggling.
I remember reading "Surely you re joking Mr Feynman" when I was 20-21. People like Feynman live forever in our hearts.
I know he’s a genius but when he talks the adjective that always come to mind is adorable. I can’t help but smile when he gets all happy about what he’s describing. So adorable.
same impression
salim mdaghri Thanks for agreeing. I think it’s because he crinkles his nose and gets the crows feet lines. I wish I came off as friendly as he does.
The passion, the smile, the eyes. An absolute scientist.
The human race should treasure people like this, not just because of his knowledge of physics and the universe but because he demonstrated the ability to explain complex things in terms which make it easy for the average person to understand and with such enthusiasm for the subject that you can't help but get swept along for the ride.
Enthusiastic
"The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at it right." How lucky we were to have Richard Feynman.
"How magnets work?"
Feynman: "Well ice is slippery."
He has no idea..
@@MrKeithy22 none of them do. 99% of them have no idea, they think they know but they're wrong, at least he sort of gracefully avoided trying to answer that. Read between the lines of what he rants about with knowing the correct question "why" to ask, saying what we are permitted to know.....I think he knows more than he leads you to believe he knows from his rant.
@@MrKeithy22 neither do we. But at least he has the audacity and modesty to basically say "I don't quite know" it's ok not to know sometimes :)
the electrons aligning answer is quite satisfactory to me
@@mpirron1 yes he didnt say a single that that had any substance, all he did was dance around the question and try to save ego by trying to humiliate the interviewer with his inflection of voice and choice of wording, it's obvious he has no clue
It's like his excitement and joy over it all occasionally bubbles over and he can't contain it any longer. Such a uniquely infectious communicator. I can listen to him talk about literally anything.
Sometimes he almost appears to get mad as if he can't understand why nobody else finds it as exciting as he does. And then he calms himself and goes back on with the explanation
It’s impossible to keep a straight face when you see his enthusiasm. It infects you and you end up with such a dumb smile. Amazing person ❤
Feynman changed my life . Listening to him , allowed me to really know what it means to understand something. Works wonders . He was a true genius.
I like how he emphasized on being a regular person who studied hard to understand science and anyone if interested can become a scientist.
that's true. It's about being curious, about wanting to know the unknown. Describing it to others. Science in a nutshell: Observation, question, gathering information/analysis/diagnostics, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, making conclusions, reporting, and evaluating. Science becomes fact when it is repeated in similar forms by different people with similar outcomes. But any douche can be curious… and act on it.
Not everyone. And that is the point and strength of humanity. We are interested in different things and that determines what we spend most of our time with. And the more time you spend with something, the better you will be at it. Diversity is the key.
@@azynkron provided how systematic the approach to study science can be. Trust me buddy, pretty much everyone can. The only difference is some people have better intuition than others which allows them to understand certain concepts faster. So the time to learn varies alot. But whether or not you can learn is the same for 99% of people.
Nothing regular about richard feynman. Believing that is a quite modern idea and from his point of view I believe, a sitting-in-the-Ivory-Tower issue. You can be curious and you should be, it's awesome to learn new stuff! You can listen to podcasts, watch nice representation of hard concepts all day and might even practice some things you see. But you'll never get to the meat of things like a richard feynman does simply because you don't have the brain juice to do it! Not now and not after 100ys of training. People believe from listening to YT videos they could do anything scientific while they struggle with high-school linear algebra and simple calculus. This is not a minor issue, that's the major issue! People are born equal is one of the biggest lie we tell ourselfs. You might become somewhat proficient with good training from an early stage but you'll never be extraordinary like gifted people WITH GOOD TRAINING can become.
Internet and youtube is so beautiful thing we can see his talking like he's very alive
You so quickly forget that this is essentially a lecture, but the way he speaks is just so damn engaging.
Imagine if Richard feynman had a youtube channel. Would be awesome
If he wasn't dead...
and then he would end his video with "please hit the subscribe button below.... but do you know what actually happens when you hit that plastic button with your finger? well ,let me tell you, ... and so on and so forth...."
@@bekiedude I will also explain to you that that "Subscribe" button is not made of plastic nor your finger is actually touching that thing. Ouch i have go back to magnetic and electrical forces, which i cant explain to you in any other way that you are familiar with. 😂😂😂
@@bekiedude That is Vsauce
Sabine Hossenfelder
I rarely ever comment about anything especially for a video of a guy who can't read my comment but he was just a sweet heart with such an energic mind. Love him!
He is so excited to simply be alive and sharing knowledge.
Following my retirement a year ago, I sat down and tried to figure out "what do I do next?" I had always wanted to get my PhD and always told myself, "after I retire...then I will get it done!" But last year I decided that I didn't have the desire anymore. Who knows how much time I have left? Why should I study math? Why should I try to pick up where I left off in college many years ago? Absently minded video browsing a couple days ago, I accidentally started a Richard Feynman binge. All of my old math and physics college books are now on a COSTCO table in our TV room, plus graph paper, my laptop, and lots of scratch paper. I have also listed a number of math and science videos to watch and get back up to speed. Dr. Feynman lit a fire under my sorry ass!
I hope you learn and enjoy a lot, good luck!
Stay Hungry my friend
"Nature's imagination is so much greater than Man's, she's never gonna let us relax"
Brilliant. What a great quote to end on
when I was a kid I really wasn’t good at anything in school, an under-achiever really. Even though I enjoyed the mystery and curiosity of science, I was never enthusiastic about it nor was I around anyone who showed any enthusiasm. I’m 31 now and I absolutely LOVE reading and listening to this, especially when it’s from someone like this. This is more interesting to me than most top-rated binge-worthy Netflix shows. I work in sound/music and so his first comments were quite fitting and made me laugh. Kinda wish I had this level of interest for science and physics back when I was a kid in school.
Geoff - It's never too late to start! :)
Amen. Same here Do you have children of your own? Or siblings with children? This could be your chance to help them develop the love of science. That's what I am planning for.
Happy Birthday Dr. Feynman (May 11th), thank you for the great explanations and lectures. RIP.
I come back here every now and then.
Interviewer-What happens between magnets?
Richard- so you have chosen death!
Thanku so much 🙄
Even though I have studied chemistry, I still find it marvelous to listen to him explain how fire works. His analogies are both simple and perfectly on point.
I love listening to this man talk.
I cant stop listing to this guy :)
I was fortunate to have been in the room when he visited UC Irvine in the late 1970’s. The Student Physics Society had invited him to speak about QED. He said he’d be happy to come but only if we didn’t tell the faculty (we studied under Fred Reines another Noble Laureate) because they’d want to give him some kind of award and a big dinner. It was memorable experience even to this day.
Look at him while he explaining the facts; he looks so happy.
8:41 the joy in his face "is a fire!!!" , made me smile as well...
The damn joy with which this man talks about this is enough to make anyone enthusiastic
I fell asleep with a playlist playing that had this video in it. In one of my dreams I found myself thinking, "This guy sounds a lot like Richard Feynman!"
There has never been a more satisfying answer on how magnets work.
I don’t know why, but it’s hilarious to me that one of the smartest people to ever live had an accent that makes him sound like uncle junior from the sopranos.
This man was a genius, I wish he was alive today I would've hugged him so tight in my arms, Sir Richard Fayman I love you so much and thank you for everything. Regards from #Afghanistan
OMG! 4 years of science in 10 minutes...I would have been blessed to have had a teacher like him. Painless learning is SO much fun. I'm 70 & enjoy the hell out of this.
The emotion when he is explaing it's fantastic, a genius.
His attitude and excitement about physics is infectious!
RIP. His excitment is intoxicating! What a wonderful person to have lived.
I watched this video twice in a day and i might even watch it again to absorb it all. Thanks to whomever had the idea to interview Richard and put it on film for us schlepps in the future. Brilliance always shines.
if every student had a teacher like him the world would be a hundred times more advanced. The passion with which he speaks science is so beautiful
The way he is giggling while explaining all this is just soo beautiful to watch.
True I love him, Kip thorn and Kim Peeks.
When I make a reference to Kim Peeks I frefer to resolvoving the space/time coordinates that makes Star Gastes possible. Also faster than E+mc2
It's Feynman's birthday again, 11 May!
Knowledge from the mind of a scientist with the delivery of a comedian and the passion of a true educator.
I bet Feynman would've never dreamed that almost 2 million people would watch this. The magic of TH-cam allows him to teach millions of people even after death.
This should be mandatory to watch in school before the 1st physics lesson.
I just took a nap letting youtube play whatever it wants in the background, and this comes on. At first I woke up, wondering who is shouting and arguing. As I gradually came back to my senses I listened intently, trying to make out what is being talked about as well as where it is coming from. And when I was aware that it must be some kind of scientist + philosopher I completely woke up, just wondering who by the gods is behind that stern and loud, yet comforting voice, and why does he make so much sense. It was a very weird and interesting experience learning about/being reminded of forces and laws that make up our world, while halfway sleeping.
I just did this too
We are all living the same life
Holy crap…I just did that too! Fell asleep watching a different video and woke up to this brilliance. I can’t believe two other people did so as well just a few hours ago.
"It was, it was....AAARRRGH!!!!"
What a legend. I had 4 of his lectures on reel to reel when I was growing up in the 70's. I literally played them to death.
He is surely missed.
Thank you for posting this and not adding obnoxious space music.
His enthusiasm and humor is so lovely - I love his advice to “have fun with it and don’t worry if the teacher will test you on it later.”
Put this on and clean the house. I heard something today. If we don't have the language the words for something, we have no ability to discuss things, outside of our language. So true. So very true.
I like how enthusiastic and excited he gets he's truly passionate about explaining things
Seeing someone having so much fun while doing something is certainly contagious. Great scientist like him always have genuinely childish curiosity which makes listening and watching them share their knowlegde so interesting for us.
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”
-Richard P. Feynman
Good one...
Great one ✊
@@elyaya5214 we get it
@@elyaya5214 ✊🏿
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The guy asks him an impossible "Why?" question and Feynman, gentleman that he was, super intellect that he was, fashions an answer that amounts to a masterful essay on the very nature of asking why.
this guy talks about science with the passion of an anima fan defending fan service. its absolutely wonderful and I simply cant get enough.
I think this is now my favorite video of all time
Don't know if we'll ever see someone like him again. Geniuses come and go, but I can't think of anyone else with this level of knowledge who also has such charisma, and the ability to communicate scientific ideas in such an enthralling way.
Carl Sagan gave it a darn good try. ☺️
Sabine Hossenfelder does though at a higher level. Her humour’s sneakier, too...
He was so excited to explain the surface tension of water 😭😭 would’ve loved to converse with him
This would be a fantastic piece of audio alone but is truly next level when you can watch how excited he gets while explaining things.
This guy here. He was such an inspiration to me, and continues to be so. I'm on my way, learning mathematics now and taking physics classes in the near future, and listening to him talk about whatever pops into his head reminds me all over again why I love this stuff so much. I wish I could tell him how much it means and how grateful I am that these recording were made.
I share your feelings
The joy in his eyes while explaining the way the world works is just amazing
You can hear the smile in his voice when he talks.
I have never felt so much joy while learning about quantum mechanics. Thank you Richard Feynman for giving me that spark of joy.
Richard Feynman is the Robin Williams of Physics. He was raised to be deeply curious, and his upbringing created this wonder of a man. His creativity, imagination and excitement for guessing the "how and why" is what every great teacher should pursue. Take note of his "ways of thinking" when developing AI applications.
Here I am, listening to Richard Feynman at 3:50am at my own leisure. How else would I be able to do that if not for internet & TH-cam? Even if I knew Mr. Feynman personally, he would have probably chase me away at this hour instead of having this conversation. I mean, internet and TH-cam and other stuff are a given these days but this is just astonishing when you think about it.
It is such a blessing that we have these videos of such a brilliant man and can still experience his genius now and far into the future.
Throughout my entire live I have never seen such honest intent and joy out of someone explaining, especially physics. This is my favorite video of all time, it sparks with joy and always motivates me whilst creating a smile on my face. Whenever I'm down I just watch this, cry a little and then get back to live, knowing there are curious and happy people out there who thrive to become the best of themselves and helping others. He is a true idol. Thank you Richard Feynman for who you were, may you rest in peace and be gratefully for your contribution to humanity.
I could listen to Feynman talk for hundreds of hours on end. He is like a little kid discovering things for the first time. His excitement with understanding even the simplest concepts is infectious. I strived to be the kind of teacher who explained Physics using the simplest concepts with understandable vocabulary and stories. M teaching of hot, cold, and thermal energy is actually not that much different from his. I never used jiggling, but used shaking and vibrating instead.
His smile is so natural and beautiful... it makes me smile!
''When you explain a 'why' you have to be in some framework where you allow something to be true. Otherwise you're perpetually asking why''.
Genius.
All observations are only true to some limit relative to a frame of reference/s
Manchausen's trilemma.
Feynman was so amazing. The joy of teaching is contagious. People like him should be controlling countries, not the morons we have today.
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*believe in contrails
He speaks in such simple way so that everyone can understand, And his simple explanation is so deeply connected that the science people can relate.The art of explaining science...