My favorite quote remains Feynman's, "The first principle is don't fool yourself......................and you are the easiest person to fool". Only an intelligent, honest man knows that. We miss you, Richard.
I believe he meant by that statement, if you try to contort your mind to conform with the view that, as an intelligent and honest man you know you shouldn't try to fool yourself, you are in actual fact trying to fool yourself and are not intelligent and honest.
Growing up, I've had no idols, I found the idea foolish. But after I've discovered Feynmann's work and general philosophy of life and work, I've gained one. He's a true inspiration.
"The words aren't gonna do you any good..."- So true. Feynman was always careful to remind us that words are only fabricated labels standing in for comprehension.
Feynman was both a great communicator, as well as a deep thinker. To be able to communicate deep and abstract concepts in plain English, such that someone who hasn't studied these things in depth can understand, is fantastic. And then to also come up with deep insights about the world makes him, in my eyes, one of the best physicists of the last century.
Fred Hoyle is a very accomplished scientist himself, his contributions to the stellar nucleosynthesis model were revolutionary, as were alot of his contributions to cosmology. Even the most adept scientists of their time were intimidated by Feynman, his breadth of knowledge was so deep and intricate, its hard to get on his level. Feynman wasnt just about explaining things to the lay man, he was a genuine genius. Probably the only one in his field since Einstein.
5:54. . . . I would LOVE to sit in that pub and have a pint or two, while listening to those two men talk. . . I admit, I would not understand 99.9% of what they are talking about , but I would be fascinated and enthralled by what they say. . .
Seeing Feynman struggle with not knowing about the other fundamental particles, and not knowing about the bosons and the Higgs field is really eye-opening. He knew what could explain the strange behavior, but not how to look for such a thing yet.
as a non scientist I find this stuff really exciting. I failed in ALL my science classes at school, but have always wanted to engage with these big questions. The likes of Feynman and Sagan in their day, and Dr Brian Cox on UK tv today, give me hope!
I wish I could step into this video and tell these guys the Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. I'd also tell them what Quasars are. These are things we've figured out since these men died. It's outstanding being able to follow scientific thinking and its progress. Thank You CZcams!
He is so awesome, he makes a good point about each branch of Science having a "question" except Physics. Honestly, who else would've ever looked at it that way?
Great video! Thanks for sharing. It's true that the "mundane" ideas in life bring into focus the beautiful interactions occurring, literally, in front of all of us everyday. The next time you look at the moon, see it for the sphere it is.
Well, I never thought that the laws of Physics actually may have evolved from a different state to what they are now. Perhaps at this point we are at the "stable" state, and they once were much stranger, and more extreme in terms of magnitude, interesting.
I love that he predicted the "historical" element of physics here, since now we have reasons to believe that the Laws weren't always the way they are now.
Tom Campbell and Susan Joy Rennison both like to inform us that the rules of physics are changed from time to time. Even atomic weights change from month to month, see Rupert Sheldrake.
The passage of time doesn't seem to change for anyone approaching the speed of light, but only for an observer who is watching that person. That observer will see the person inside the spaceship move in slow motion inside the ship, all his actions will get slower as the spaceship gets faster and he would appear frozen in time if it could reach light speed. But inside the spaceship the person would think that time is normal even though thousands of years may pass for the observer.
This guy blows my mind, because I just recently started listening to him, and his ways of thinking are so close to mine, yet we are a contrast as people. It's exciting that the same sort of conclusions, the same way to draw those conclusions, and the path they lead to, I myself have gone down independently, and now I make theories of logic and imagination that this guy was the authority of and well respected for. I wrote this on a shitty futon after work at a job I don't want to work.
notice that at 8:39 on he is hinting the isea that physics can only study what already exists under conditions, but how it starter or how it got there is a question beyond them. (physics)
“We work where the light is better.” That’s an astounding admission by the greatest physicist of the last half century. The street lamp is the Standard Model of course. And the same goes for cosmology; both are hopelessly lost in dogma and mysticism.
the plasma physicists now think the redshifts of quasars are actually intrinsic...they might actually be new galaxies being born - which is like hoyle's continuous creation theory reborn
I've always thought that the rules to reality being so simple (when they should theoretically be infinite) makes more sense if you assume the universe started in a state where every possible physical law existed simultaneously. Everything would have been cancelled out or unified as an undifferentiated whole, and it would only be after most of those rules have disappeared that anything could differentiate itself from that unified whole. Before then every possibility and point in spacetime would be "full" and there would be no blank space to create borders and seperation between structures or independent systems. Causally it's a bit of a weird idea, but thinking about it like a big block of stone erroding or being chipped away into a specific shape from every possible shape the stone could have taken helps a bit.
i think that as matter changes so do the laws that govern it. consider that just earlier he was explaining the seemingly paradoxical situation in which quarks seem to obey completely different laws from atoms and similarly the problem with electrons behaving like particles and waves simultaneously in the 3 slit experiment. i think there is a pattern to the change though so that when you compose new matter by stacking older smaller bits of matter, you should be able to predict a change in that...
@rogermwilcox You are right. Apparently nobody here has picked up a college level textbook on relativity. They often use this terminology in many of their problems. Millions of light years old light simply means that the light has been travelling for million of years in space before finally reaching us. It is usually used as a unit for large distances. It is not that hard to understand. I am a U1 physics student by the way.
"What way do we have to think about it so that we understand its simplicity?" Well the only logical answer to this is to think simply about it of course. To quote Alan Watts, "The problem is not that we haven't thought about it enough but that we have thought about it entirely too much. Every attempt to explain it makes it more obscure. The reason why we find our quest for some ultimate reality so difficult is because we are searching in obscure places for what is out in the broad daylight."
it was about the discovery of an interstellar cloud which was heading directly at the solar system there were great discussions on predicting how it might impact the earth, temperature, duration, atmospheric poison, then the sci-fi twist they discover it to be alive, and super intelligent!
If you cant explain it simply then you dont understand it well enough ;) He diffinetley understands it ;) I love his book.I could listen to him talk about anything all day because he makes everything interesting..... Somehow this video reminds me of Monthy Pythons ;)
@LittleMikeStarCraft And not only that, but in crossing millions of light-years, the light will take millions of years, and therefore be old when it reaches us. It's actually a nice, compact way of saying "They're really far away and we're seeing them way way in the past."
And just to further make my point, if for some reason someone is still in doubt, here is a feynman quote: "Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. " I think we can presume he knows what he is talking about.
it strikes me that it may well be "turtles all the way down", every time a new particle is discovered a new puzzle get uncovered, molecules, then atom, then charged particles, now it's string, what is string made of, this is like asking who made god, maybe in fact string is made of some other even more basic building block, and god DID have a maker, ad infinitum...
@chrisofnottingham It certainly sounds like it! It sounds like that other gentleman is describing the problem of an accelerating universe as observed by red shift problems, though they didn't directly mention this possibility...
@MadaxeMunkeee I hate to admit this-- but I think light-years old.. makes sense.. because, they are talking about the distance... the light has to travel to us. But-- it took me a few watching overs to understand it.
Feynman: What did you find? LHC: Nothing. Feynman: Why, that's strange. I have nothing to explain! I might be dead as well. Let's hit the ladies instead!
Living in a fantasy world can be comforting. Others find reality and rational thought more productive. These people have been highly successful and are the ones who came up with every single invention ever made.
In the words of brian cox "if you could travel at the speed of light you would get everywhere instantly", he also gave the reason a name but i cannot remember, this may go someway in explaining the way this works, in the sense that from your perspective going 99.999999% light speed would mean 1 second in your time represents thousands of light years in distance!
at 4:00 - I thought that the problem with the circles on circles was because the scientists at that time, until Galileo, took the earth as the centre, and not because they thought of circles rather than ellipses.
Well, it's the middle of the night, and I'm an Interested party. No big bang. Permanent state. Matter(rocks etc) is the difference between implied infinity and actual infinity.What can exist independantly of all other influences? Infinity? Well it looks like we have that at our disposal. It's like a wave, a frustration, an anxiety, a euphoric reaching, a wonderful exponential expansion. This expansion constantly refers back to its emptiness and forward to its accomplishment. It has a mechanism to know each state simoultaneously. The mechanism is an infinite variety of atoms and molecules each of which exhibit something of the personality of infinite and near infinite space and time.
@ashleylovesdaddy My sentiments exactly. had these men of our days past (I feel That they knew about it though) had known of our Tech Capabilities as of this day, They would have done even greater things.
... matter's properties (the laws that govern this new matter). so that in the end there is underlying pattern that describes the generation of new patterns. as a caveat, keep in mind that the brain is novel in its ability to not only recognize patterns but to also generate new patterns. i think that is cosmic time or even human time, it will not be long before there are entities that came from humans that can generate patterns so well as to capable of generating new universes.
4:51 min: "Millions of light years old" Just take a loooong breath and continue watching without thinking about we messure distances in ly and not time...
@hobatu Wow, great observation. I could not agree more. The string of fascination in the world is what life is. If you tell someone that the only thing life is is this one thing that a certain group says without any evidence. You dumb down life itself, you dumb down that person's fascinations, and wonder. Making them less present in their lives.
Never heard a conversation like that in any pub I ever went to. Wish I did though.
My favorite quote remains Feynman's, "The first principle is don't fool yourself......................and you are the easiest person to fool". Only an intelligent, honest man knows that. We miss you, Richard.
I believe he meant by that statement, if you try to contort your mind to conform with the view that,
as an intelligent and honest man you know you shouldn't try to fool yourself,
you are in actual fact trying to fool yourself and are not intelligent and honest.
@@ross350tube Forsooth.
And yet he admits that “we work where the light’s better.”
Growing up, I've had no idols, I found the idea foolish. But after I've discovered Feynmann's work and general philosophy of life and work, I've gained one. He's a true inspiration.
"The words aren't gonna do you any good..."- So true. Feynman was always careful to remind us that words are only fabricated labels standing in for comprehension.
what can happen, when a father takes an interest in the formation of the mind of his son... He was the true genius
Greatest and most fascinating mind of my lifetime.
What an incredible way to spend a rainy afternoon. That's like heaven--intelligent funny conversation and a few drinks. Nothing like my life.
A brilliant mind and wonderful communicator.This man was truly inspirational!!!
Feynman was both a great communicator, as well as a deep thinker. To be able to communicate deep and abstract concepts in plain English, such that someone who hasn't studied these things in depth can understand, is fantastic. And then to also come up with deep insights about the world makes him, in my eyes, one of the best physicists of the last century.
Easy one of the most surreal days I've ever had, out of many heartaches.
This one really has me feeling excited for life again
Fred Hoyle is a very accomplished scientist himself, his contributions to the stellar nucleosynthesis model were revolutionary, as were alot of his contributions to cosmology.
Even the most adept scientists of their time were intimidated by Feynman, his breadth of knowledge was so deep and intricate, its hard to get on his level. Feynman wasnt just about explaining things to the lay man, he was a genuine genius. Probably the only one in his field since Einstein.
5:54. . . . I would LOVE to sit in that pub and have a pint or two, while listening to those two men talk. . .
I admit, I would not understand 99.9% of what they are talking about , but I would be fascinated and enthralled by what they say. . .
An Amazing man. A great loss to Humankind in his passing.
Seeing Feynman struggle with not knowing about the other fundamental particles, and not knowing about the bosons and the Higgs field is really eye-opening. He knew what could explain the strange behavior, but not how to look for such a thing yet.
as a non scientist I find this stuff really exciting. I failed in ALL my science classes at school, but have always wanted to engage with these big questions. The likes of Feynman and Sagan in their day, and Dr Brian Cox on UK tv today, give me hope!
Bro it's dec of 2021, where are you now😲
Bro it's mar of 2024 where are you now
I’m so jealous of my dad that he got to study with Richard Feynman!
Could you imagine skiving off physics at school by going to the pub, and finding those two there?!
It would serve you right?!
Oh! The street lamp and the lost keys history again! 3rd time I hear it this month.
I wish I could step into this video and tell these guys the Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. I'd also tell them what Quasars are. These are things we've figured out since these men died. It's outstanding being able to follow scientific thinking and its progress. Thank You CZcams!
Was that why he said something else other than recession may be the reason for the large redshift of quasars?
He is so awesome, he makes a good point about each branch of Science having a "question" except Physics. Honestly, who else would've ever looked at it that way?
Tq for uploading this. This made me stop crying.😁
A liberated mind. Truly a sage.
Great video!
Thanks for sharing. It's true that the "mundane" ideas in life bring into focus the beautiful interactions occurring, literally, in front of all of us everyday.
The next time you look at the moon, see it for the sphere it is.
Well, I never thought that the laws of Physics actually may have evolved from a different state to what they are now. Perhaps at this point we are at the "stable" state, and they once were much stranger, and more extreme in terms of magnitude, interesting.
I love that he predicted the "historical" element of physics here, since now we have reasons to believe that the Laws weren't always the way they are now.
Tom Campbell and Susan Joy Rennison both like to inform us that the rules of physics are changed from time to time. Even atomic weights change from month to month, see Rupert Sheldrake.
I never knew Hoyle and Feynman met. Two of my favourite thinkers. Wow.
I could listen to this guy talk all day
Imagine walking into a pub in Yorkshire and there's Feynman and Hoyle sitting having a pint!
Exciting discussion that basically explained why physics came into its current form, 40 years later.
That would be a picture of heaven I could subscribe to.
Every problem is solved in the pub with a few pints 🤔 great man
8:25 is a very striking analogy
"Millions of lightyears old"
Spacetime indeed
light years measure distance not time
The passage of time doesn't seem to change for anyone approaching the speed of light, but only for an observer who is watching that person. That observer will see the person inside the spaceship move in slow motion inside the ship, all his actions will get slower as the spaceship gets faster and he would appear frozen in time if it could reach light speed. But inside the spaceship the person would think that time is normal even though thousands of years may pass for the observer.
Help! I'm in love with a dead man!
My first crush... ✨🖤✨
Try astral sex then. If it doesn't shake your whole truths up too much that it 🌞🐼
Welcome to the club!
@@MarcCastellsBallesta haha! thank you, ten years after... btw... feelings have intensified!!! All the best!
@@MindsetMakeover. hi! nothing has changed. Cheers!!
Imagine those two men at the pub, just existing in a completely different universe than absolutely everyone.
They don’t though. Many have the same discussions and thoughts.
This guy blows my mind, because I just recently started listening to him, and his ways of thinking are so close to mine, yet we are a contrast as people. It's exciting that the same sort of conclusions, the same way to draw those conclusions, and the path they lead to, I myself have gone down independently, and now I make theories of logic and imagination that this guy was the authority of and well respected for. I wrote this on a shitty futon after work at a job I don't want to work.
“Time and Space … It is not nature which imposes them upon us, it is we who impose them upon nature because we find them convenient.” H.Poincare
notice that at 8:39 on he is hinting the isea that physics can only study what already exists under conditions, but how it starter or how it got there is a question beyond them. (physics)
“We work where the light is better.” That’s an astounding admission by the greatest physicist of the last half century. The street lamp is the Standard Model of course. And the same goes for cosmology; both are hopelessly lost in dogma and mysticism.
Now, imagine this conversation over coffee. 😳☕
Was he a big inspiration for CERN? Did his work directly lead way to particle acceleration?
At 8.21 I cannot make out the word they both use
" is considered another problem(feyman) ..................... condition.
can anyone tell?
I don't catch it, but i play it again and yes. Narrator used this phrase.
he is a fascinating person . if he hadn`t chosen this field he would have been a great minister/ senator imo
Imagine walking into a pub and seeing Feynman and Hoyle sitting there talking physics...
4:53 "Millions of lightyears old"
Hol up
True. Point well taken.
the plasma physicists now think the redshifts of quasars are actually intrinsic...they might actually be new galaxies being born - which is like hoyle's continuous creation theory reborn
I've always thought that the rules to reality being so simple (when they should theoretically be infinite) makes more sense if you assume the universe started in a state where every possible physical law existed simultaneously. Everything would have been cancelled out or unified as an undifferentiated whole, and it would only be after most of those rules have disappeared that anything could differentiate itself from that unified whole. Before then every possibility and point in spacetime would be "full" and there would be no blank space to create borders and seperation between structures or independent systems.
Causally it's a bit of a weird idea, but thinking about it like a big block of stone erroding or being chipped away into a specific shape from every possible shape the stone could have taken helps a bit.
Just like the mind of an infant transitioning into a toddler - gaining a differentiated consciousness through pruning lots of neural connections.
Feynman's a quarky guy.
Feynman's got a great personality with a lot of quarks.
hardy har har har
these jokes are just a shot in the QUARK
he DID say that he doesn't know the names of things.
Loved him in Symphony of Science.
The guy who interviews Feynman is the great English Physicist and Cosmologist Fred Hoyle.
i think that as matter changes so do the laws that govern it. consider that just earlier he was explaining the seemingly paradoxical situation in which quarks seem to obey completely different laws from atoms and similarly the problem with electrons behaving like particles and waves simultaneously in the 3 slit experiment. i think there is a pattern to the change though so that when you compose new matter by stacking older smaller bits of matter, you should be able to predict a change in that...
Feels like Christmas when physicists talk to each other
Is that a half-drunk beer in Feynman's hands @ 6.43? I thought he forswore alcohol many years before this.
3 is a paradox
@rogermwilcox
You are right. Apparently nobody here has picked up a college level textbook on relativity. They often use this terminology in many of their problems. Millions of light years old light simply means that the light has been travelling for million of years in space before finally reaching us. It is usually used as a unit for large distances. It is not that hard to understand. I am a U1 physics student by the way.
"What way do we have to think about it so that we understand its simplicity?" Well the only logical answer to this is to think simply about it of course.
To quote Alan Watts, "The problem is not that we haven't thought about it enough but that we have thought about it entirely too much. Every attempt to explain it makes it more obscure. The reason why we find our quest for some ultimate reality so difficult is because we are searching in obscure places for what is out in the broad daylight."
it was about the discovery of an interstellar cloud which was heading directly at the solar system
there were great discussions on predicting how it might impact the earth, temperature, duration, atmospheric poison,
then the sci-fi twist
they discover it to be alive, and super intelligent!
If you cant explain it simply then you dont understand it well enough ;)
He diffinetley understands it ;)
I love his book.I could listen to him talk about anything all day because he makes everything interesting.....
Somehow this video reminds me of Monthy Pythons ;)
4:40 Producer realizes they're in way over their heads and yells for help...
Imagine having a beer with Richard Feynman :)
@LittleMikeStarCraft And not only that, but in crossing millions of light-years, the light will take millions of years, and therefore be old when it reaches us. It's actually a nice, compact way of saying "They're really far away and we're seeing them way way in the past."
And just to further make my point, if for some reason someone is still in doubt, here is a feynman quote:
"Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. "
I think we can presume he knows what he is talking about.
it strikes me that it may well be "turtles all the way down", every time
a new particle is discovered a new puzzle get uncovered, molecules,
then atom, then charged particles, now it's string, what is string made
of, this is like asking who made god, maybe in fact string is made of
some other even more basic building block, and god DID have a maker, ad
infinitum...
@chrisofnottingham It certainly sounds like it! It sounds like that other gentleman is describing the problem of an accelerating universe as observed by red shift problems, though they didn't directly mention this possibility...
It wasn't Feynman making the mistake.
@rogermwilcox Time stops at lightspeed so we can't really talk about light as having aged at all.
@MadaxeMunkeee I hate to admit this-- but I think light-years old.. makes sense.. because, they are talking about the distance... the light has to travel to us.
But-- it took me a few watching overs to understand it.
a beer????? I would want to share a six-pack with that brain..amazing gift for explaining science.
Time and distance are simply two flavours of the same thing. They can be used almost interchangeably in the field of relativity.
I wish he were able to explain LHC findings.
Feynman: What did you find?
LHC: Nothing.
Feynman: Why, that's strange. I have nothing to explain! I might be dead as well. Let's hit the ladies instead!
@judgenap He said the "boundary condition".
-"It looks much simpler that it has any right to be"
Nature is simple but at the same time it's infinite
Nature is finite, there are no “physical infinities”
@MadaxeMunkeee Not Feynman though...only the TV narrator
4 people who watched this don't like the pleasure of finding things out.
Living in a fantasy world can be comforting.
Others find reality and rational thought more productive. These people have been highly successful and are the ones who came up with every single invention ever made.
In the words of brian cox "if you could travel at the speed of light you would get everywhere instantly", he also gave the reason a name but i cannot remember, this may go someway in explaining the way this works, in the sense that from your perspective going 99.999999% light speed would mean 1 second in your time represents thousands of light years in distance!
Feynman was a very forceful communicator. Pretty intimidating (not just his intellect), but his directness, loudness, gaze, emotion.
My first real experience of him was the O rings on the Challenger. The cold O rings. He started from the basics.
at 4:00 - I thought that the problem with the circles on circles was because the scientists at that time, until Galileo, took the earth as the centre, and not because they thought of circles rather than ellipses.
I am in love with this man. I want to marry him
The Maxwell Equations ~ "The Feynman Lectures on Physics", Vol II, Ch. 18
www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_18.html
I wish i could have talked to him. I could have told him to give up the idea of the particle, and realize that it's only standing wave forms.
would you like to state your opinion?
He also said "where particles exist for only a million millionth of a second."
@ahmednoe well...there's at least two
I knew Ricky fenns years and years
Genius
Well, it's the middle of the night, and I'm an Interested party. No big bang. Permanent state. Matter(rocks etc) is the difference between implied infinity and actual infinity.What can exist independantly of all other influences? Infinity? Well it looks like we have that at our disposal. It's like a wave, a frustration, an anxiety, a euphoric reaching, a wonderful exponential expansion. This expansion constantly refers back to its emptiness and forward to its accomplishment. It has a mechanism to know each state simoultaneously. The mechanism is an infinite variety of atoms and molecules each of which exhibit something of the personality of infinite and near infinite space and time.
@ashleylovesdaddy
My sentiments exactly. had these men of our days past (I feel That they knew about it though) had known of our Tech Capabilities as of this day, They would have done even greater things.
... matter's properties (the laws that govern this new matter). so that in the end there is underlying pattern that describes the generation of new patterns. as a caveat, keep in mind that the brain is novel in its ability to not only recognize patterns but to also generate new patterns. i think that is cosmic time or even human time, it will not be long before there are entities that came from humans that can generate patterns so well as to capable of generating new universes.
The laws of physics might have evolved? Mind=blown
"whatever it takes to switch places with the bustas on top, i'm bustin' shots make the world stop, they don't give a fuck about us"
@8JSimo
Like the Kessel run?
...
*ducks*
4:51 min: "Millions of light years old"
Just take a loooong breath and continue watching without thinking about we messure distances in ly and not time...
@hobatu
Wow, great observation. I could not agree more. The string of fascination in the world is what life is. If you tell someone that the only thing life is is this one thing that a certain group says without any evidence. You dumb down life itself, you dumb down that person's fascinations, and wonder. Making them less present in their lives.
Hmmm...hmmm......hmmm. I do the same thing when pretending I know what someone's talking about.
*PHEW*, it wasn't Feynman who said that. you scared me, comment from a year ago.
We would all be thinking beyond what his thinking was, if we weren't so distracted.