Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law Part 5: The Distinction of Past and Future

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  • Richard Feynman
    The Character of Physical Law Part 5
    The Distinction of Past and Future
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  • @Billfish57
    @Billfish57 Před 29 dny +1

    Richard has always been my favorite teacher since the first time I saw him. The best and I love this guy.

  • @zack_120
    @zack_120 Před 3 lety +11

    It is puzzling to see there are only so few reviews of such a fundamentally important subject explaining the universe.

  • @OverlandOne
    @OverlandOne Před 4 lety +16

    Such a genius. He had a great gift of being able to explain very complex systems and theories to folks like me so I could easily understand them. He is greatly missed.

    • @ericmelton4186
      @ericmelton4186 Před rokem +3

      People for generations will learn from him if generations want to learn.

    • @notaspeck6104
      @notaspeck6104 Před 4 měsíci

      @@ericmelton4186 I mean I'm 18 and I'm learning from him, his way of teaching is pretty timeless.

  • @sabatino1977
    @sabatino1977 Před 8 lety +67

    "It's *billions* and *billions* of these atoms."
    Love his delivery.

    • @mihaibadicioiu6453
      @mihaibadicioiu6453 Před 4 lety +1

      That's one of the best... It's amazing how honest is... pure direct delivery, unfiltered :)

    • @zack_120
      @zack_120 Před 3 lety

      Even that one is TOO MUCH to represent billions and billions of more atoms, considering how many of them in the universe.

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat Před 5 lety +32

    6:21
    "The laws of beta decay [...], also time reversible--the difficulty of the experiments of a few months ago which indicate that there's something the matter with--that there's some unknown about the law, suggest the possibility that it may not also be time-reversible, but we shall see."
    He is talking about the weak interaction in the context of kaon decay. It turns out this is not time-reversible, in a phenomenon known as CP-violation. Unlike P-violation, which is maximal in most weak interactions, CP-violation is very subtle and wasn't discovered until just prior to this lecture series. To this day, CP-violation remains mysterious, but in a different way. Weak CP-violation is explained, but we don't understand why it isn't also violated (to any measurable extent) in the strong interaction. This is known as the "strong CP problem" in physics.

  • @thedelta88
    @thedelta88 Před 9 lety +30

    so great they made recordings of these

  • @Mrbfgray
    @Mrbfgray Před 9 lety +16

    Excellent. No one does it better then Feynman.

  • @lucaviggiani2189
    @lucaviggiani2189 Před 5 lety +13

    That last section of interconnecting hierarchies was inspired. An amazing man.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 5 lety

      ​@najtofniBecause that is pretty well known. I have no idea who came up with this multi scale multi level hierarchical paradigm, but Boltzmann was a master of it, and he predates Feynman by eons. This is not a gem like that "there is plenty of space" thing which was Azimov kind of marvelous for the day.

    • @TheCoozinatoooor
      @TheCoozinatoooor Před 4 lety +5

      This is the perfect antidote for all the conspiracy theorists out there durng these difficult times

  • @ayyleeuz4892
    @ayyleeuz4892 Před 10 měsíci +1

    22:06 and on is some of the greatest and most worthwhile oration of any I've heard. wow. in the abstract it applies to all domains of life, even politics

  • @ashleyotto6493
    @ashleyotto6493 Před 2 lety +1

    my favorite of all time!!!

  • @geosutube
    @geosutube Před 4 lety +2

    Love this! Now, let’s go get a beer and talk shit about something else for now.

  • @firstal3799
    @firstal3799 Před 6 měsíci

    Loved the ending.

  • @jakyru1981
    @jakyru1981 Před 11 měsíci

    "God evidenced in the hierarchy" wonderful ending to an amazing lecture.

  • @davecrupel2817
    @davecrupel2817 Před 5 lety +2

    I love how he described the demonstrations of reversible physics at the beginning, and, though they can never happen, how vividly we can picture it all happening.

  • @Anonymous_3031
    @Anonymous_3031 Před rokem

    This is why CZcams is great..!

  • @hydrogenbond7303
    @hydrogenbond7303 Před 9 měsíci

    Finaly someone explained entropy to me clearly. With all the ways people tried to explain enthropy It always felt so abstract...

  • @TJ0510
    @TJ0510 Před rokem +1

    14:17 me every time Richard explains anything 🤣

  • @oguzhanmercanli6491
    @oguzhanmercanli6491 Před 2 lety +3

    English subtitles (even automatic subtitles that instantaneously created from video) would be great

  • @Jackson_Zheng
    @Jackson_Zheng Před měsícem

    The most impressive thing is that people actually laughed at the political expediancy joke when most would not be able to understand what he meant if Feynman gave the exact same lecture to people these days.
    The greatest thing we lost from the past is the depth of thought that people had and the willingness to think deeply about subjects rather than to confidently speculate about those that are outside of your field of expertise.

  • @chiffmonkey
    @chiffmonkey Před 5 lety +5

    Anyone else find the fantastic bit on heirarchies from The Witness?

  • @TomerBoyarski
    @TomerBoyarski Před 10 lety +3

    what a wonderful question: 'what make time go?'
    never thought of it

  • @howardchance9779
    @howardchance9779 Před 4 lety +3

    This guys halarious

  • @mikestevens8012
    @mikestevens8012 Před 5 lety +3

    " if you watch too closely ,you can't understand it at all " ...I thought it was just me !

  • @firstal3799
    @firstal3799 Před 6 měsíci

    Nice

  • @halnineooo136
    @halnineooo136 Před 6 lety +20

    This is a model for all teachers. The word "Entropy" only comes in at 32'.

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 5 lety

      No, it comes at 3' something. World of a wuxely character is a world with more entropy. Those are absolute synonyms.

    • @mikestevens8012
      @mikestevens8012 Před 5 lety

      For beginners ,we learn to absorb it all sort it out later , entropy is not a high school word , I don't need a precise definition , I'm not flying the space ship , I just want to gamble on if it will work .!.

    • @isaacleach1
      @isaacleach1 Před 5 lety +6

      @@u.v.s.5583 but you see there he is describing the concept, without using the the word which refers to it - Feynman repeatedly emphasis this distinction, making the point that you can know many words and yet understand very little and always talking in a very plain understandable way

    • @u.v.s.5583
      @u.v.s.5583 Před 5 lety +2

      @@isaacleach1 This surely demystifies the concept of entropy, takes away lots of potential for intimidation and invites thinking and discussion. Other than that... Pythagorean theorem remains what it is no matter whether you use the term 'hypotenuse' or whether you say 'the longest side'.

    • @ashleyotto6493
      @ashleyotto6493 Před 2 lety

      in Greek mythology... chaos ..was the beginning of order....the chaos was Nyx and Phanes was pre- determined order...... Feynman echos this wisdom!!! :)

  • @TomerBoyarski
    @TomerBoyarski Před 10 lety +5

    39:39 how to approach ultimate truth? amazing. wonderful.

  • @aranchilingar9086
    @aranchilingar9086 Před rokem

    Deano Martini as a professor mic drop mitzvah drop. Have you never listened to Yogi Berra or Mark twain Samuel Clemens there is a rhythm to hell they speak. It’s a vibration and it flows. Everyone is looking for the state of flow but only if you can find it. Usain Bolt, one of the fastest runners had an interview and they asked him. How do you run so fast.? He said I don’t wanna fast I keep running the same speed and everything else slows down!

  • @preis55
    @preis55 Před rokem

    It would be interesting to know more about the mathematical details of Saltpeter's backhanded calculations that predicted the level in carbon. I'm assuming he didn't do it with the Schrodinger's equation but the law that's lopsided in time allowing another method to predict this energy level?

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

    Could we have a probabilistic future coming into existence with the absorption and emission of light waves?
    We could explain light waves as a process over a ‘period of time’ with particle characteristics or photons as the future unfolds.
    A potential probabilistic uncertain ∆×∆pᵪ≥h/4π future unfolds with potential photon ∆E=hf energy, of what might happen, exchanging into kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of matter, in the form of electrons, of what is actually happening.
    Light photon energy cascades down forming greater degrees of freedom for entropy and the irreversible processes of Classical Physics with heat energy always flowing from hot to cold and friction always changing motion into heat forming the ‘Arrow of Time’ within each reference frame.

  • @keshavmukunda
    @keshavmukunda Před 13 lety +1

    Great videos, thanks for sharing; but parts 3 and 5 have no sound at all...can that be fixed?

  • @SuperMaDBrothers
    @SuperMaDBrothers Před rokem

    43:00 very true about specialization

  • @NOMADdaf
    @NOMADdaf Před 5 lety +9

    Am I the only one that thinks is is Ed Norton's twin ???

    • @OverlandOne
      @OverlandOne Před 4 lety +1

      That same thought hit me years and years ago. His voice, his pattern of speech and accent all indeed sound like Norton. (Art Carney's character from the Honeymooners TV series.) So, I am not insane then. Good to know.

    • @OverlandOne
      @OverlandOne Před 3 lety

      @Lukasz Dziubalski Art Carney's character from the Honeymooners TV series.

    • @OverlandOne
      @OverlandOne Před 3 lety +1

      @Lukasz Dziubalski You will love it. It is the show that made Jackie Gleason a household name. Take care.

    • @firstal3799
      @firstal3799 Před 6 měsíci

      Yes

  • @mustaphafoussi5826
    @mustaphafoussi5826 Před 13 lety +1

    Great video, thanks. Can you please check the sound

  • @josephdominguez4219
    @josephdominguez4219 Před 4 lety +1

    Time machine

  • @bwnck2779
    @bwnck2779 Před 4 lety +3

    42:33

    • @DFEUERMAN
      @DFEUERMAN Před rokem

      "God particle" is a misnomer, then

  • @vollinaadkins8118
    @vollinaadkins8118 Před 2 lety

    The electron wave, ... 🥱

  • @xXUxCXx
    @xXUxCXx Před 8 lety +3

    The guy at 14:18! :D I had the same expression on my face at that moment! :D

    • @rasmusravnandersen5788
      @rasmusravnandersen5788 Před 8 lety

      +xXUxCXx isn't that a girl?

    • @sabatino1977
      @sabatino1977 Před 8 lety

      +Rasmus Ravn Andersen I think it is. She makes another appearance at 15:37, and there you can see more clearly that she has a ponytail. I thought she was a guy as well at first.

  • @edertwins
    @edertwins Před 13 lety +2

    ..sound?

  • @youkoshi
    @youkoshi Před 13 lety +2

    why isn't there any sound?

  • @robertbradshaw9367
    @robertbradshaw9367 Před 2 lety

    So few comments. So few views too considering this has been here 10 years. A kitty video would probably have many times more. Say it all....

  • @JamesWattMusic
    @JamesWattMusic Před rokem +1

    jimmy fallons father

  • @Katsiakaniaris
    @Katsiakaniaris Před 13 lety +1

    bluejemm if u want to help do it the fast way...

  • @DudeBoerGaming
    @DudeBoerGaming Před 6 lety

    1:04

  • @user-un5vb9gq3t
    @user-un5vb9gq3t Před 4 měsíci

    ?

  • @MrGOTAMA420
    @MrGOTAMA420 Před 6 lety +1

    I bet the nerds heads were just exploding in that room that nite!

  • @nbme-answers
    @nbme-answers Před 3 lety

    29:13 wetness

  • @monktrane325
    @monktrane325 Před 4 lety +2

    OK it is not close to my logic

  • @MrSiaynoq
    @MrSiaynoq Před 11 lety +1

    Typical MS bullsh*t loads halfway and freezes lol