He cheated on his wife with Las Vegas showgirls while at Los Alamos. While she was dying of cancer. (see "You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feinman") He had access to radioactive material . Do the math.
This is funny. I watched this video two, maybe three years ago, and just now I wanted to find it again so I typed some keywords. You know what I found? Well beside this video, the top results were all sorts of people asking versions of this question: "Why was Feynman against brushing teeth?" It's funny, but hopefully people helped them out.
@@gfujigo I developed a passion for the truth. I left myths and stories behind. I opened my mind to wonder. Why are things as they are? He helped me to realize science has but one objective, the truth. I never turned back.
Same here… as a young physics student at MIT in 1968, his writings stood out from other scientists. He was a mean conga player, too. I eventually became a film composer, so always loved that about him…
One of the most delightful and intelligent scientists during the last 100 years is Dr. Richard Feynman. His ways of communication, the way he delivers scientific and philosophical facts and hypothesis is the best I’ve ever seen.
Theres another great man, Bronowski (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski), that believes science is the construction of a controlled vocabulary in order to understand the world. It is awesome to assume both are right in its own sense.
i have a terrible memory for names, introduce yourself, shake hands, already forgotten your name, i console myself with the excuse i won't forget your face, that i give more credence to who you are rather than the label, it's an excuse that keeps me at liberty.
@@devstuff2576 intelligence is intelligence. You can be intelligent and frustrated, intelligent and arrogant or humble. It doesn’t matter. I do get frustrated when some people don’t care about the why. Idk about Feynman :)
Richard Feynman, the genius that he was, had the singular ability to realize that perspectives and points of view give us a window into all of the alternate possibilities that may exist. This is the definition of genius.
obliviously, history and science has taught us, the impossible is possible over and over again. We make it all up how we perceive, but feelings are still the greatest mystery.
Rene M some things are factually impossible. unless you can change gravity you will always fall. unless you move, you will be run over. not everything is possible. there are limitations
Ever time he speaks about his father, it intrigues me to no end. "What an amazing person he was", i would think. I would also wonder if could ever be a great father like him so, i too could make my son think like Feynman. As i could also walk side by side a great man and to say he is my son would be my greatest achievement.
I agree with you 100%. Watching the video like others, you can't help but see how much of an influence Feynman's father had as his mentor. Had he grown up fatherless, perhaps he would have discovered his talents through poker games, or excelled in business rather than something that betters all of humanity. Its interesting to wonder the potential geniuses (even ourselves) walking the streets, with the right variables / guidance I'm sure it can be common.
If i would have the chance to talk to anyone who has ever lived, Feynman would propably be the one.. just the way he sees things from a different perspective is fascinating. And he never seemed to be tired of explaining his views.. and also one of the greatest explainers of science to the common people.
Absolutely not, not because he's not a great thinker, in the contrary, but because if we all would strive to think in a specific way, there would be a lack of diversity in the way problems are tackled, which would lead to less problems solved, because the problems "out there" sometimes require the thinking patterns of people deviating from the norm or what's generally considered "what humans should think like".
Richard Feynman is a magnificent orator when it comes to quantum mechanics; primarily using metaphors and analogies instead of physics jargon, so to masses can comprehend the ambiguity, uncertainty and unpredictability of the quantum world. I've been reading up a-lot on quantum entanglement, the complementarity principle and the theory of uncertainty. The schrodinger's cat experiment is an intriguing analogy to explain the superposition paradox between particles.
Feynman was such a treasure to humanity. The embodiment of the virtue of child-like curiousity and how it can change the world for the better if you only let it.
Every kid invents the problem of the sum of the power of the integers - solves it and moves on to sex, drugs and rock and roll - Ricky was a late developer.
Trying to answer questions is a good thing. When I was younger (I must've been 10 or 11) I remember watching a documentary on rockets and space travel. Where they talked about how having to lug your propellant with you decreased your performance (the tyranny of the rocket equation). I didn't have much knowledge of physics at the time, but I remember trying to solve the problem by drawing a picture of a rocket which would use the very small amount of gas and dust that is present in space, and accelerate it using magnets out the other end. I then found out that this is the basis of a Bussard ramjet, a type of propulsion proposed in 1960. I was by no means particularly intelligent, I am considered fairly average in school, I just thought about the problem and tried to fit together the rest of my knowledge to make it work.
Jeff Vader I think my mind is a significantly dumbed down version of Feynman’s. Pretty sure I think the same way but with a crappier processor. Maybe you’re the same! There can probably be only a few ways the mind is wired to interact with the world. I think a good comedian’s mind has to be Feynmanesque too. Anyway...that dude was awesome.
Amazing how people truly do live with a computer in their heads, and anyone can recognize a problem, and develop a slightly different solution. everyone today has what Feinman would regard as an amazingly complex supercomputer in our pockets and can find any point of view and solutions, but introduces infinitely more questions and problems for us to solve. Sometimes I wonder what fun Feinman would have with google, but WE have the tools, and he’d want this generation to discover these questions for ourselves.
I had a very good physics teacher that would answer a question the same way. Never a direct answer to the question but a proposition for you to think more about the question. At first I thought my teacher was arrogant, but later I understood they were the complete opposite. My teacher had faith that I could come to a better understanding. My teacher is not here any more but has changed my world view and helped me to use physics as a tool that pays my bills.
I disagree. Make science accessible, don't put it in the dark with all the nerds. We need interest in science from men and women to help build the world.
Watching these sorts of interviews with Feynman when I was a boy greatly inspired me.I have taken his advice in my life, and guess what? Thinking for yourself doesn't make you very popular!
Only enlightened mind I have seen on screen. Just no negativity, pouring bliss into each moment out of sheer joy for knowledge. Knowledge often suffers from arrogance, NDT is an example, but Feynman cut through that to the other side. He is contended with what he has done, free of need, becoming a visual manifestation of the true meaning of success and human experience. I wish more people learn from him and get inspired.
Much of my success in business can be traced to when I read his two non-technical books, and had my eyes opened as to how one should one's mind. Truly a great man, and deeply missed. Seems to me like America isn't producing enough of this kind of intellectual any more.
That New York accent is so catchey. I remember once telling my mother that it is possible to have negative integers as well as positive integers and tried to explain my idea,, this was our at the age of 11 or 12, she just laughed at me and said that was stupid, it wasn't until high school then I realised that's exactly what you can do.
I have always felt connected with the way this great mind used his intellect to explain things. I'm almost tempted to say we have similar ways of looking at this wonderful universe, my iq may not be as high as his but I have been able to relate to many of his insights and perspectives of looking at the world, and many of his videos have helped me embark in my own personal mental journeys to understand the universe a little better. I am very thankful to be alive at this moment in history were our understanding of ourselves has surpassed expectations yet we have only scratched the surface of the grand scale of what the universe is.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
Love Feynman; such incredible insight into - well everything. Wonder what he'd make of string or m theory? Always think it's cool how much of an influence his father was on him; encouraging Feynman to think for himself.
He was a truly unique human being with a unique and inspired point of view on anything and everything imaginable. To say he was a genius just doesn’t do it justice. From Mongolian throat singing to theoretical physics and beyond, he seems to be quaintly present in the ever-unfolding corners of my mind, and I’m sure countless others, too. That’s as close to immortality as a human being could get, at least for the time being.
Taking new perspectives always help shed new light on current questions. What he said about the problems in the book, and that the book says "New ideas needed" It's the same thing I do. And so do others. We should all to this though. With things like science and physics, social and political things as well.
Apparently so - but I feel not; you put your power in it (assign power to it) by naming and have all the power you give it in the terms you set it. Thus modern humanity is (significantly) trapped in its own model - like a mind being trapped in its own thinking. We could laugh of course - but the experience of this has a tragic element. In ancient times the 'name' meant the 'nature' and to recognize the nature of a thing is to open or activate the resonance within your own nature - and in a true sense you are then the field of relation as the movement or focus of its revealing to your asking - which is not between separate 'things' but a relational expression of 'one thing'. To take a name in vain would be to take it out of its relational context to serve a private agenda (vanity). This is all about magic spelling. I feel better to willingly align in relational integrity and not seek power over anything - so as to no become subject to what goes around, coming around. There must be stories about recognizing home is where or who we were all along. The desire to gain power OVER life/self/reality embodies the belief in a lack of power. The belief that we have it is from the reinforcing feedback of our experience. When my Mac freezes, I can do what I will with the mouse but the illusion of power through the interface is no longer supported. So within the parameters of a certain practicality it can seem reasonable to say we gain power over something - but if we really look at what is actually going on, we find something much more complex relative to what SEEMS simply self-evident because we have learned to think and see this way as our adaptation to the human world/experience. The usefulness of a model is to recognize the limits of its applicability AS a model or shortcut reference to a complex intuitive recognition - that could never be explicated completely in 'longhand' of linear verbal mental concept. Nor would we want a life so long as to pause so long to try to do so. It is very difficult to realize that we are so adapted and acclimatised to relating through a model (named world) that it operates by habit as relating TO the model - without actually making the connection. Forgive me if I rambled out of turn. I also like to uncover other ways of seeing that then release me from tram-tracks I would otherwise follow unknowing.
When I was expanding brackets I worked on a quick way to solve it. I discovered a formula and was a little dissapointed when I found out it was discovered it was the binomial formula. Now I'm not after watching this and I'm going back into studying maths and physics
I suggest reading the following article was written by Dr. Davidicus Wong from Vancouver and published on June 22, 2012: Love is the core of our lives. It is the purpose, passion and meaning of life. To love and be loved is the point of it all. Yet love, so important and central to our lives, is a complex experience and a confusing word. We mean different things and misunderstand each other when we say, "I love you." Love comes in many forms-as many as the number of humans that have ever lived. I see love as a potential spiritual experience-to see and be seen as we really are-beyond what we each appear to be. To love is to recognize the divine in another person, and with that recognition, dedication, compassion and caring flow naturally. To be loved this way is like coming home, finding your authentic self and discovering that you are not alone. Love takes us deeper into the self yet goes beyond self. It penetrates to the depths of the soul. We love the unique expression of the divine in the other, the other is no longer separate from us, and once that connection between you is experienced there can be no separation. Life is all about relationships, and love is the point of it all. Life is imperfect, we are all flawed, life is unpredictable, and we all make mistakes. We waste our time and energy, we stray from our paths, and we harm each other. Yet love makes it worthwhile and allows us to forgive others and ourselves. Unconditional love is an ideal form of love. It is the perfect, all forgiving love of parents for their children. But even the most devoted mother or father falls short of perfection. We may search our whole lives for the perfect soul mate-one whom we love without judgment or reservation, one who loves us the same perfect way, but we will never find that perfection because we are each human. We must accept and appreciate love just as we have received it in all its human imperfection. It is through us that love is received- and expressed. It is in our lives, through our actions, in our words and in our relationships that divine love is manifest. But, of course, we are human-imperfect, frail and fallible. We do not see clearly-ourselves or others. We love imperfectly and we do not fully appreciate the love that we receive. But that is how we experience love-divine love, unconditional love, compassion and grace-filtered by the passions and hunger of our bodies, clouded by our limited minds and nar-rowed by our little selves. We must not only love the ones we're with. We must accept the love we have been given. This morning, my thoughts began with a prayer of appreciation for love in my life-in the past and in the present, as I have received it, partly through the grace of the events and circumstances of my life and the gifts I have received but primarily through my important relationships. I am thankful for love- perfect and unconditional- as manifest and expressed in my imperfect relationships. I accept and appreciate that love as expressed by my wife in our long relationship, in her concern and care for me, our home and our children. I appreciate the love of each of my children, the experiences we have shared as they have grown and we have all learned, in shared adventures, challenges and memories, in the rituals and routine of our everyday lives that seem endless but are finite. I appreciate divine love through my relationships with my parents, each expressing love in their own ways, with my sister and with my brother. I am thankful for the love received and expressed in my deepest friendships. I am grateful for the gift of my work-and the opportunity to express unconditional love in the care of my patients. Dr. Davidicus Wong
