Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) 

same... Having read the strangest man, I actually didn't realise this even existed, brought the man to life

It has happened because of you what you trying to mean in a little hiding manner what you really want to say.

@@SumanBiswas-vj3cb Well I guess you told me.........something.

Thanks for your comment, pretty much my thoughts also!

I never thought he had a video of himself i’m amazed, he was younger than einstein right…

In what way. Did Bohr explain why ?

​@birdman4274 This is conjecture on my and many others part, so take this as you will, but as someone with ASD it appears clear to me that Dirac had a form of Autism or other such disorder. The way his mannerisms, behavior, thought, speech, everything he did and how he went about it tells me his 'eccentric' nature came down to not only how he saw the world, but interacted with it as well. I have no proof of these claims (Dirac himself I believe was never tested, nor gave any personal account therein), but from an outside perspective with firsthand insight into the nature of ASD I would confidently say Dirac was on the spectrum, as I've found similar occurrences in other major mathematical minds. Perhaps I am well off base and he was simply an intelligent man who could not connect with people due to his personal understanding of human nature and the world at large, but to me that is a moot point considering his other behaviors (reclusivity, very little speech unless he "had something meaningful to say", particular routines (I believe he had even scheduled his walking/thinking time and stuck to it religiously), et cetera). I simply believe these factors are the cause for many people viewing Dirac as strange, eccentric, weird, and above all intelligent. He had such a beautiful mind and the world is left not only better due to his legacy, but also worse because there has not been another great mind like his in decades. RIP P.A.M. Dirac

@@birdman4274He was very much a private person, introverted and barely talked.

@@carl7664 His colleagues in Cambridge jokingly defined a unit called a "dirac", which was one word per hour.

There might be a correlation aha

People don’t like that. They like loud clowns

@@Bluefalconspiracies Ye, f dirac, why utube suggest this video to me, he sounds like dementia boy

Good Morning: Is that Norbert Dragon speaking? It's because only Norbert Dragon of Karlsruhe & Hannover, John Singh from Ireland and maybe Jürgen Ehlers are the Ray Experts here!

Are you Dr. Tarek Azzam ?

legends

And instantly without delay or hesitation

Friedrich Hund was 6 years older than Dirac and outlived him (he died aged 101)

Indeed As well as Schrodinger

Only bc of age

he had little choice, he was old and had health problems

@@greymonwar9906 He was always like that, just read his story, the act of talking was a lifetime trauma to him, because his father would spank him every time he missed a word gender or verbal time (his language is French). When his brother commited S, he said "i didnt understood why my parents were so sad at the moment, but later on i understood that this is a normal thing" because he literally never understood the concept of love. His friends created a meme constant called "dirac constant" that represent 1word/hour.

​@beniocabeleleiraleila5799 I came to the comment section just to see if someone mentioned the 1 word per hour dirac unit. Dirac was also married to Wiegner's sister.

Best comment on any vid on YT

I always imagined dirac died like a a hundred years ago lol

Is me Fiorella🤤

Not still born

Me voilà, de quoi tu parles ?

@@johntower2005 excusez c’est sûrement de ma faute si je ne connais pas johntower

Maintenant tu me connais petit chou

Well said !

Much like how children at school now learn the Pythagorean theorem. Thousands of years after its discovery 🤭

Dirac was famously taciturn. His colleagues at Cambridge coined a new unit "the Dirac" as the minimum needed to partake in a conversation, a "Dirac" was one word per hour.

Even Penrose is only touching the tip of the iceberg but yes most people sadly don’t even read at all. This is all old news tho

@@r3b3lvegan89 I meant the accent and general demeanor.

Dirac is such a fucking icon man I swear

@@r3b3lvegan89Dirac’s equation is not something one randomly reads but yes, people hardly read now.

He was more of a dog person than a cat person then. He left his cat in a box - unsure if it was dead or alive.

@@hut8_newzealand361 badump-bump

​@@hut8_newzealand361WHAT?!?!?!!! I DO hope the "Cat Protection League" was alerted!

@@hut8_newzealand361 that’s Schrödinger

No, it's not "literally Heisenberg with his dog"... It's just Heisenberg with dog. They were not this disrespectful, come on.

he barley speaks here.

It is so.

@@jonathannesbittYes.

Don't forget Sir Isaac!!!

Hamilton is up there too!

I enjoyed using my Dyson Air Purifier 😊

@@robjohnston1433 Newton was probably the best Physicist in history in all fairness. He was more physics than maths

exchange Dirac with Neumann and you're there

😃

theres no way that woman did that by herself

Thank you! I just fixed those numbers.

His father was a French-Swiss and forced his family speak French at home. That may be a reason.

@@sabahattinsakman7985I heard a French physicist visited Dirac and practiced his weak English for many weeks prior to the visit so as to better converse with the Englishman. When leaving after an apparently frustrating discussion due to the language barrier, Dirac turned and spoke in perfect French to a housekeeper.

But Poincare missed the most revolutionary aspect of Einstein's Relativity: that time is not constant. This allowed the full understanding of the revolutions of QM and GR.

@@rayfranco1256 He did so in his essay "The Measure of Time" of 1898. He concluded with the measure of time writing: The simultaneity of two events, or the order of their succession, the equality of two durations, are to be so defined that the enunciation of the natural laws may be as simple as possible. In other words, all these rules, all these definitions are only the fruit of an unconscious opportunism.

@d-nihilus4422 👍👍 On peut même dire que Minkowski a carrément plagié les travaux de Poincaré, notamment " le mémoire de Palerme" !!!

We haven’t had anyone like Paul dirac or people on his level since then. People now have become more selfish. The brightest people just take a medicine, computer sci or engineering degree just to make money. The culture of contributing to Physics and it’s natural philosophy is dying. I guess it makes sense for a subject like physics which won’t technically bring personal benefit. Sad.

Poincaré was a bitter, stereotypical frenchmen, who never got over it that Einstein killed it and put all the pieces of the puzzle together before him, despite the fact that he had worked on the topic for far longer AND DID NOT unterstand what he was doing or what nature was doing. He left no chance unused to belittle and despise Einstein afterwards, pushing his narrative despite the fact that you can clearly see in his papers that he was beating around the bush without getting the physics and without having the mathematical capabilities to understand the abstract meaning of the formalism. Whatever Lorentz said or didn't say, they did not come from Poincaré and Poincaré DID NOT understand them until way later. That was another thing to deeply dislike about him: He was a Monday morning quaterback. After Einstein conceived special relativity and even introduced the Minkoswski metric without noticing it at that point, suddenly Poincaré claimed that all of it was so easy and so clear and so apparant, especially to him. Typical unlikeable idiot.

He didn't recognise the physical interpretation though.

@JeanPinard Apparemment, ces gens n'ont jamais entendu parler de Poincaré, et de ses travaux sur les transformations de Lorentz (qu'il a d'ailleurs lui même baptiser ainsi )?! j'hallucine !!!

But don't forget Emmy Noether, she developed the symmetry & conservation forces principle in 1915 ~1918 in Germany.

Well put. And that’s only regarding quantum physics. All of that is in addition to his pioneering work in various other fields in physics culminating in his general theory of relativity, one of the greatest achievements of the human mind. Then come along some people who know next to nothing about physics or any of Einstein’s monumental discoveries, and say Einstein was overrated because they read some ridiculous mambo jumbo about him on the internet. If anything, Einstein was underrated.

A bunch of made up hooey. Max Planck was the originator of quantum theory, he was the first to suggest energy was quantised instead of continuous. It’s ridiculous to suggest every physicist’s work in quantum theory was built on Einstein’s passing thoughts. There are numerous other brilliant scientists who had original thoughts and produced original work in the quantum - for example, Niels Bohr and Ernst Rutherford and their quantisation of the atom

Einstein was unique in a way that for some reason he produced top notch cutting edge papers for more than twice as long than any other physicist we know. Interestingly enough, he received exactly 1 Nobel prize despite the fact that all 4 contributions of 1905 were in itself all Nobel-worthy. He came up with relativity by himself when 99% of physics was just focusing on quantum theory and nobody was interested in another theory of gravity. He helped the "quantum clique" with complicated calculations and often did hideous matrix calculations for Born and Heisenberg in Heisenberg's matrix mechanics when they were overwhelmed with work. He described and conceived the L.A.S.E.R. in 1916. Had he lived a few years longer until the first laser was built, he would have been awarded a second Nobel prize for that. And around the same time the first sophisticated tests of special relativity and general relativity were carried out as well. Had he lived, there was no way Stockholm could have not awared him another 2 Nobel prizes for the proofs of special and general relativity. Instead he had to be nominated more than 60 times to be even considered for one Nobel prize because the chairman of the Nobel committee at that time was an eye doctor and did not understand Einstein's contributions. So he did not agree to honor him with the prize for many many years, and because said eye doctor disliked relativity in a similar fashion, they had to go back all the way to 1905 and randomly (!) picked one of the other 1905 papers for the Nobel prize. That's actually a true story which was investigated and solidified by sources and evidence only fairly recently. Oh and he autodidactically learned tensor calculus, coined the term tensor analysis and introduced it to physics when publishing general relativity. I agree, technically speaking he is underrated because he published so many things which typically go unnoticed by laymen and conspiracy idiots, even though he is always depicted as THE archetype/blueprint of THE genius.

@@bobbwc7011 Nobel worthy contributions by Einstein, as have emphasized is correct. Here is one more: Bose - Einstein condensation predicted in 1924 that came to reality in 1996. S.N. Bose, Einstein & one from the two experimental projects should have been nominated for that, but the three experimentalists Cornell, Wieman & Ketterle received the prize in 2001. Your last passage is a noteworthy one, specially about the "conspiracy idiots."