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It saddens me to read so many disparaging and ignorant comments below, about Mr Feynman. Why are these people even looking at this video?

Credit to the interviewer - imagine more people like him asking obvious and simple question. The answer was simple - we know how it manifests it's felt but we have no clue what it is

When i ask my wife how was your day!

This is like a comedy sketch on 1950s tv

Never gets old #WEUC water Expands Upon Cooling

politicians when asked any question

I take it this guy never or will have sex. Women would be repelled from the room from his constant smirk and lecturing like a Hamas supporting teacher at Columbia.

Ken Wheeler brought me here.

Hope aunt minny get well soon 🙁

Me " How do magnets work?" Richard Feynman: "Fuck dude, I don't know."

The man who put a doorstop in history that keeps people flocking back to see him. We miss his kind today.

Lol ..best ...what spreads it jiggles ..irregular motions

the biggest change in history, thanks to Maxwell

This blithering fool made millions over the course of his life “teaching.”

Oil is really just fossilized solar power.

Thats a fancy, roundabout way of saying...we don't really know.

He is basically saying the interviewer doesn't have the requisite knowledge, that he is not in a requisite framework to understand how electro-magnetism works. The ice analogy was to showcase that there is no end to "why questions", if the person asking the question don't have some basic understanding of the very thing he is asking. The part towards the end is the crux of what he was basically trying to say. Without the interviewer having basic understanding of elecro-magnetism, Feynman cannot do a good job of explaining why magets repeal each other since making him understand in layman's terms would be cheating as the very tools (like rubber band pulling back) which he would use to make him understand about eletrical repulsion are governed by the same very forces!

to break non tensile #8 wire, you bend it over itself, make a tight u-bend, then open it and close it again and again, it gets 'burn you' hot.

Gravity is a lie , what is trying to be examined is buoyancy and the interaction with the density of the mass surrounding it . Wake up people !!!!!? GOD is NOT the author of confusion

Clarity of thingking which is so rare, that is almost non-existing among "ordinary people".

Feynman should have said "i don't know about magnets."

he would make a better politician than a physicist

His answer reminds me of our Canadian Parliament question period🤣....he never does answers the question! 😕

What a clown

Hmm I'll get more out of a fairy tale than this muppet.

When you feel "repulsion" it is an abundance of space. So, you are trying to cram 10lbs. of space into a 5lbs. bag When you feel "attraction" it is a voidance of space. So, the 2 magnets Accelerate (not attract) to the 1 point where there is the least amount of space. Pressure mediation. Naturally the Magnets will be accelerated (attracted) to that point to fill this voidance of space. Because the physical object is the source of the magnetic field, and the magnetic field is far more powerful than the inertia of the physical object, it is necessary that the physical object travel with the magnetic field. Magnetism, however, is a field not a physical object. The physical object is just able to maintain the magnetic field with a specific geometric alignment of the atoms of the physical object. This is why 2 magnets, each with a North and South pole, coming together, form 1 magnet with only 1 North pole and 1 South pole. Both physical objects maintain the Magnetic field that has been induced upon them. Was that so hard?

Feynman has no clue how magnetism works and neither does his army of disciples.

God less thaights means scince

Magnets attract because old ladies have abusive alcoholic husbands

"If I were more technical" 😂

3:33

All he had to say was ' I do not know '

Amazing ignorance on part of Feynman.

I know the exact answer as to why lol.

This is what makes him such a great teacher - look how increasingly enthusiastic he becomes answering the question! He gets really worked up. Just like in his lectures.

U seriously made me laugh so hard, coz I thought there was some negativity between ur people and mine then I realised it’s very hard to answer , I do it with hi gifts had (to each family member today)

😂what???🎭

I remember being a kid and brushing my hand through my stuffed animal's hair and suddenly blue sparks started coming off it. The more I brushed the more sparks/light was coming off. It seemed miraculous to me. I realised it was the same static I could feel on my fingers during the day, but that now it was visible in the dark. Give it a try :)

If I ever get to teach Physics 101 I will show this clip very first lecture

I watch this everytime I see it mentioned somewhere

4:58 This guy sounds like he’s the smartest mob captain there is, trying to explain to his underlings “dis thing, dis repulsion”

As an electrical engineer, I can say his analogy of a hydroelectric power plant and the distribution network is bad. I can see where his physicist mind comes in, the fundamentals of transformers, inductors, motors, conductors etc are. But no. He studied electrodynamics.

POV you ask for help in an exam

What an inspiration to study science! This love is so contaminating!

I love this video. It never fails to provide me with a good laugh 😂

I dont see the problem, a mirrir just reflects

I never get bored of this explanation.

Real answer: He doesn’t know and refuses to admit it…hence the roundabout jabberwocky about the semantics of the question. RF = Yuck.

And this is why we never get any solutions, short answer is he doesn’t know.

Interviewer: Asks why magnets push each other. Feynman: "Let me teach you how all of science works..."