ALL humans, no matter how smart they may be, are vulnerable to occasional exaggerations and misstatements, INCLUDING Einstein.. My humble opinion is that in this case, Richard MIGHT have made such a faux pas and later felt it was necessary to stick with it to avoid being discredited in some fashion.. An event familiar to most of us as well..His amazing genius, however, clearly speaks for itself.. Peace..
@@el80nemaybe Richard Feynman pations have not be declassified by government that is why Richard Feynman three pations could not be find because THE government does not want pation TO BE FIND because Richard Feynman inventions so head of there time .
My two cents: Most military innovations do not have a paten but they always have an inventor. If those inventions were related to the Manhattan project or warfare, don't expect to see the patent in Google.
There are patents that have been classified due to national security. You won't find them on Google or the Patent and Trademark Office. That's your answer.
If the government spends 1 dollar on your patent they can take it, classify it and use it for whatever they want without further compensation or even telling you about it. It's the law. I would be very surprised if it wasn't true given what he was working on. It's happened to lots of people.
Seems in the physics community, there’s always this issue of calling out other ‘successful’ physicists from the past. Especially those who are no longer here. Usually it’s Einstein. Now Richard Feynman?
Feynman is named as inventor in the US Patent *application* no. 43,993, filed in 1948, which is referenced in US patent no. 2,770,590 by James Serduke-- both of them assigned to the US atomic energy commission. It is unclear-- and I would say unlikely-- that Feynman's *application* ever resulted into an issued patent,: which is probably why it didn't turn up in Brian's lame search. There can be many reasons why an application doesn't result in an issued patent, including rejection by the patent office or abandonment by the applicant. There may very well be other Feynman applications, especially if he indicated that assigned multiple patternts.
In case you are unaware. The government classifies lots of patents. They are not available to the public. I'm sure you have arguments about this not making sense, etc. like others here, but it happens.
If you discover a novel idea while working for a company, university, or government, the patent belongs to the employer. Because of some nit picky legal reason, the patent is traditionally transfered to the employer for one dollar. If you refuse to do that you could be sued if you try to personally take advantage of the invention. Feynman couldn't have written the patent without a patent attorney. The inventor generally supplies the text of the invention along with diagrams. The patent attorney puts the text into the appropriate legalese, puts any drawings into the required format, and writes the claims. The claims are most important and are tricky. Feynman may have done his part, but would not be aware if the government decided not to pursue his ideas with a patent attorney or the filing of the patent. The opposite happened to me. I barely started a patent with an attorney but was laid off along with around 60 other people, A year or two later, I was surprised when a few companies wanted to sell me coffee cups or wall plaques with my patent cover page printed on it. I had completely forgotten about it, but a search showed that it indeed was granted. (I never gave them the dollar.)
Why are you like this? Incredibly rude. Lookup the The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, which was created to withhold the work of people just like him. Just the accusation, not even a mention of this?
0:24 But he was an “adept” teller of “tall stories”, sometimes known as … 3:08 Dyson said of his friend Feynman → “Yes, he wasn’t quite on the same level, I would say. As a character, as a human being, he was superb. But as a physicist, he invented a marvelous tool, which was the Feynman diagram. He wasn't a deep thinker.” 3:51 Feynman did not in anyway “discover the underlying cause of the Challenger disaster”! That is pure urban legend. The problem with the seals was being actively investigated well before the disaster. There is film of the gas escaping through the seals on flights before the disaster. The seals on the SRBs of these flights were inspected and analysis were conducted. The disaster was caused by high level management at NASA making a POLITICAL DECISION to launch the shuttle extremely far out of the temperature specifications so that Regan could talk about NASA’s accomplishments in the state of the union address that was coming up. Remember your credibility.
Yeah, Keating is becoming more and more of a baiter. I stopped watching the video exactly after he claimed that Feynman solved the Challenger failure (Feynman merely EXPLAINED the cause to the usa congress...in a very simple and brilliant way tho).
There is and always will be an underlying truth to the human attitude towards safety. It will gradually relax until something tragic happens, and then people wonder how it possibly got so sloppy. We witnessed it again with the Secret service. All safety regulations are written in blood, which fades over time and completely erases with the passing of those who remember why it was written.
@@coder-x7440 yes, but, being right is not all it is cracked up to be. and x squared = 4 has 2 right answers. come on it's QED, Lasers, Transistors ...
Hi Brian. Maybe they were ‘provisional’ patents, which aren’t easily searchable. Maybe someone ‘forgot’ to include him a the application (that’s happened to me a couple of times). Maybe the patents were classified ex post facto, and then removed from the records. [Why not ask Carl if he knows anything about them? But be sure to ask nicely.]
I had two patents taken over. No records. A friend had his large engineering company raided by the Feds a week after he applied for a patent that covered what was under development by the government. No trace in the records. BTW: I had the privilege to meet with Feynman. I have no reason to believe he had any need to make anything up. BTW2: Feynman and John Wheeler (among others) worked on anti-gravity research for the government. Good luck trying to get any info through a FOIA request 🙃 Point being that much is hidden. BTW3: Re - other comments. NASA knew about the O-ring issue but wanted Feynman to difuse the truth. Didn't work to well. Check RU-vid.
Sorry, kinda lame to clickbait insult Richard Feynman. Even if his patent comments were lies, who cares? Most likely explanation is that he liked to tell good stories. Like all good parables, the small details aren’t all that important.
I took a nuclear engineering course as a chem e elective. The book posited using nuclear bombs to remove mountain ranges to change lical weather to increase agricultural production. It was written in 1958! Ha ha
Gosh Brian, that's not the point of the story. The point of the story is that 1. They were taking any and all ideas (without the nowadays criteiras) , and 2. Richard only valued them so far as he got one dollar worth of "random" ideas. He hated distinctions, he hated "honours" and he didn't "envy" Albert (at least on this front). Do you frankly think a "nuclear" powered "vapor" jet engine would be better than nowadays jet engines ?
It is hard not to fall in love with the man, on an intellectual level. Because he opens doors in the mind that were previously out of reach and so he made his audience feel smart. Many people never experienced that before they listened to him. That says as much about the people putting him on a pedestal as it does him. You see this a lot. Jordan Peterson has an identical group of devotees just on a more mundane level. People are just blown away because they are undereducated. Nothing wrong with being inspiring but people go so overboard with it because we need prophets and heroes.
This is the kind of thing that degrades the value of your channel. These patents, the details of which Mr Feynman has forgotten, are anything but "colossally important". Any more than Einstein's patent for a refrigerator is colossally important. For shame.
You are right for thinking to pull out skeletons from closest. Doubting is most important thing then caring about what people will say about you or will think about you.
BK, Are you afraid of Feynman's "epistemic boundness"? When RF insists that "nobody understands QM"? Are you, BK, on the last leg of what Chomsky criticizes as Eliminative Materialism? Give it up, Bro. Boundedness rules. Read your Chomsky. Read your Chomsky.
I remember Feynman being criticized for exaggeration but I’m not sure who it was - may Gell-Mann. But I’m gonna give Feynman the benefit of the doubt here.
One have to realize that if the "military" find that a new invention or patent of great strategic importance, the mil can put a secrecy desition on it,and " take it away" from publications. You still can have the patent, with most of its rights,but it is no were to be found, in official listings. Maybe this is the case with this guy?
Scientists are human beings and humans are capable of exaggeration and being economical with the truth. Feynman was great, but enjoyed being a story-teller and entertainer. If he fibbed over this minor issue, who cares?
I believe he believe with his contributions to science someone had or would have create a patent with him as a the creditor. Hence,he was a man in his ego. Then again, in the science world who wasn’t or isn’t today?
Im surprised you would fall for this. Feynmann was too busy playing sitars, poking women, and smoking dope to lie about patents. I still love the guy. Oh, and after all of this, you missed that he was tipped off about the shuttle o rings by a thiokol employee. He acted as a liaison on that matter, protecting the employee, off the record. NASA is ashamed and embarrased of this to this day. I have to ask - did you just sell out?
What are you doing? Bill Gates Brian? Interesting.. Anyway! This may assist with the confusion. Feynman was probably talking about information that is still sensitive today, therefore you won't find anything with his name on it. Also, they could have been talking about something similar to a patent, like a trade secret or utility model. At worst, he mixed up terms or was told he has patents without ever seeing them. He's not lying! 🤝
I think it is fair to question what makes any of us aspire to be like someone we greatly admire. In this case, he was a dynamic teacher of physics and he made it fun. Was he an applied scientist and theoretical too? Sometimes no. Watch how he crashes and burns explaining magnetism…you make your own conclusions. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MO0r930Sn_8.htmlsi=qJqDIL6C83RA9WOV
"Challenge the argument, not the person." Take your own pompous advice Brian. I've tried your channel several times but there is something really off about you. A bad vibe. I'm out.
