talks about the mayan indians and other funny stuff.. we missed u richie!!
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@mdhookey10 жыл бұрын
A very smart man who had a wicked sense of humor! :) I'm glad he was here on Earth.
@0ptimal3 жыл бұрын
Imagine that there are probably people out there who are similarly brilliant, but did not pursue physics or science, and are assumed to be ordinary people, with maybe a few around them who suspect something extraordinary. Undiscovered genius. I think there are people like this in all areas of life, finding your optimal path in life is very difficult and many things have to come together. Thankfully they did for Feynman.
@choochoochoofkncoolasfthew3076 Жыл бұрын
Infuriating
@irenehartlmayr8369 Жыл бұрын
That is quite right.Genius or great talent is probably more common than one would imagine.But not all of these people can make it to the " top ". There are lots of "undiscovered" extraordinary people on this planet.Frustrating knowledge.....!
@Bamboothought Жыл бұрын
Yes , they do exist............
@incendiary19 ай бұрын
Can 😅
@BladeRunner-td8be4 жыл бұрын
In the 62 years I've been around I've had hundreds of teachers in my life. Some were great, some were good, some were decent, and some were terrible. Most were decent. My total exposure to Feynman is through KZfaq videos but I can say without a doubt he is the best teacher I've ever had. During the 4 years I was in college, astronomy, math, and history were my favorite subjects. Am considering finding a way to relearn much of the math I've forgotten over the years just so I can understand more deeply some of the things Feynman talks about. Carl Sagan was another great teacher that I've learned much from. Garnered through the books he wrote and the appearances he made on numerous TV shows. Batman and Robin are supposedly the dynamic duo, but Feynman and Sagan are my dynamic duo. RIP to both of them.
@AJ0K3R3 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prqeeKqQvK3IYoU.html this is a good place to start for a broad overview of math.
@elarhy11 жыл бұрын
"imagine our civilization reduced to three books, and accident decide wich ones"...... i find that very scary.
@hero94024 жыл бұрын
yea that happened to our most of history
@rovidius20064 жыл бұрын
It is so that no one can lay a claim that will stand , eternal vs remote
@foreyfriend1454 жыл бұрын
" The Howard Bros "
@RickarooCarew3 жыл бұрын
indeed.. but.. I think they absolutely understood what the Spanish were up to... imagine.. they saved a few more... ;~}>>> they were not really primitive at all.. genocide reduced a civilization.. to primitive survival... I have been finding platinum and palladium in the mountains around my house in Arizona.. the history of platinum says the folks in Mexico and South America were using platinum.. but couldn't melt it... neither could the European folks.. I have a hard time in my laboratory.. natural platinum has double double covalent bonds... with palladium.. and.. I can't do it without a plasma torch
@RickarooCarew3 жыл бұрын
Dr Feynman.. possibly the greatest teacher we have seen lately.. his lectures make us hungry for more... every time
@gmatsue8410 жыл бұрын
Feynman unconsciously (or consciously) giving the finger at 6:10 is priceless :)
@JamesPeach7 жыл бұрын
Yeah fuck those Spanish priests, lol.
@danieldickey94795 жыл бұрын
Bro I was about to comment that. And yours is the first one on there lmao
@jackmoores52095 жыл бұрын
The hiding of the logos has been going on for thousands of years and telling the truth will get you killed. When the wizard is handing out brains he gives the nod about universities of great thinkers(something is rotting).
@mauriceupton14745 жыл бұрын
RF should have 'flipped the bird' to Islamic priests that burnt all the books from the great Library of Alexandria to heat their bathhouses.
@williamhowell96354 жыл бұрын
? Pm
@yonopuedo9013 жыл бұрын
I have a profound respect for this man. Not only is he incredibly smart, but more importantly he is able to communicate complex ideas in relatively simple terms. It seems as though it's so easy for highly intelligent people to make the listener feel stupid (ie: Neil DeGrasse Tyson answering questions from young students in a lecture). But with Feynman, it's almost as if he's encouraging you, on a personal level, to let your mind wander and start asking "why?" or "how?". Makes all the difference
@therealzilch4 жыл бұрын
Richard Feynman was one of our greatest thinkers. He is sorely missed.
@CarlosAsmat12 жыл бұрын
4:29 Mathematics: "just tricky ways of doing something which would be laborious otherwise." Feyman is amazing!
@user-pz7ys3mf8u5 жыл бұрын
Physics and mathematics are really interesting when Feynman talks about them
@kriger614 жыл бұрын
Always interesting
@mineduck30505 жыл бұрын
This guy had the authority of a white wizard when he spoke. He is not obstinate or foolish, you know he has the permission of his audience to teach them. That 'giving' with good reason is the true meaning of authority, no matter the field. Hmm. In these days and cultures, if you told somebody authority wasnt power and control, they might look at you like you were confused. Lol
@jimtruscott56705 жыл бұрын
Feynman is one of my favorite geniuses ! ! !
@garthbartin12 жыл бұрын
"Imagine our civilization reduced to three books. The ones left by accident." The Twilight series...
@edgewaterz3 жыл бұрын
He is wrong that the Mayans never used their calendars and math for prediction. That was the entire point. I love Feynman but this is a condescending view of the marvelous advancements of Mayan astronomy and mathematics. The whole point of tracking Venus and knowing how many days in a year and so forth is prediction. If an astrology of gods, good and bad omens, etc., were associated with the emergence of Venus or the disappearance of other planets and stars it was because it coincided with the changing of the seasons. And the ability to predict seasonal changes accurately let you know in advance when you need to plant crops, move livestock from one grazing area to another, harvest your crops, salt and preserve meats to prepare for winter, etc. It was absolutely a predictive science written in the sky and they figured it out. You have to give them credit for that. That is the "why".
@glenn25953 жыл бұрын
If Feynman was alive today he'd probably make the Big-Tech - Conquistador analogy.
@octemberfury10 жыл бұрын
6:11 Feynman flips the bird at 500 year old spanish priests. :D
@-8_8- Жыл бұрын
Tricky ways of doing something that would otherwise be laborious is a great way to describe my life as an installer.
@TestMeatDollSteak10 жыл бұрын
I wish Richard Feynman were my professor :(
@deidara_85984 жыл бұрын
I simply wish he was still alive, we all had much to learn from him.
@MaDrung3 жыл бұрын
my father, my friend, my Dota 2 team mate.
@SpeegBJ12 жыл бұрын
A relief to find a mind I can run along side. Thank you YT and all the light.
@adamhannath14174 жыл бұрын
What a power! To deduce any scenario to its base elements.
@deckiedeckie4 жыл бұрын
Cannot conceive that the nation that produced R. Feynman, today dances to Tramp's music....!!
@davidwilkie95515 жыл бұрын
The notable difference between looking and seeing, the cause-effect difference between continuous connection and snapshot connectivity, in various "mathematical" degrees.. fun to imagine, all ways.
@jaredhouston42234 жыл бұрын
I see you everywhere science!
@qhsperson7 жыл бұрын
Three books left, and one of the three is "Fifty Shades of Grey." We'd deserve to be forgotten.
@JamesPeach7 жыл бұрын
Imagine how much knowledge they had in their libraries if out of thousands of books one was about science.
@grendelum5 жыл бұрын
_”Flatter abs in 21 days”_
@gblargg4 жыл бұрын
At least it would serve as a warning .
@JoanKentBible5 жыл бұрын
This man is absolutely fascinating to listen to and I have no clue about science. His integrity and sincerity is magnetic.
@Jakiejack13 жыл бұрын
To the man who uploaded this: THANK YOU.
@alleif13 жыл бұрын
1:58 That part where he goes "wuddawuddawa", my science teacher in middle school did that exact same thing. And he always talked with that same genuine excitement. Man, he was cool.
@dougg10754 жыл бұрын
He was big on not knowing why or how. He said when asked why magnets do what they do paraphrasing “ it’s the wrong question, if your mother slipped and broke her hip you can break it down but you’ll never know why it happened” magnetic attraction happens but we don’t know “ why”
@SoNDgs13 жыл бұрын
Civilisation reduced to 3 random books.
@johnnyllooddte3415 Жыл бұрын
mayan codices were made from tree bark, and painted hieroglyphics that no one could read
@whalingwithishmael77515 жыл бұрын
That's so sad that so many books were burned
@meesalikeu5 жыл бұрын
topdog i know its very unbelievable but sadly true
@deckiedeckie5 жыл бұрын
As an individual....Richard Feynman is the greatest amerikan of all!!
@meesalikeu5 жыл бұрын
Deckie Deckie not really he had his faults
@Valdagast7 жыл бұрын
Imagine our civilization reduced to the Twilight novels.
@baxtar196313 жыл бұрын
Some claim the Mayans knew about Pluto, how is this possible? They also knew about the 26,000 year cycle of the earths precession.
@burt37244 жыл бұрын
Sam harris always ask his guest " if you could bring one person back from the dead and give them the benefit of a modern education who would you bring back?" Feynman, is the most common answer. This man is remarkable.
@fitnesspoint20063 жыл бұрын
stop worshiping other humans
@RARa128124 жыл бұрын
If our civilization reduced to three books i hope one book would be brahmagupta s book that gives us zero, addition, multiplication and division.
@EvaTruve2 жыл бұрын
Nice talk! Feels like home, listening that man.
@raimundomuthemba76610 жыл бұрын
We appreciate you loading the video...but please spell his name correctly and what's up with the ''lol''?
@bonhamhouse11697 жыл бұрын
Seriously? Deference to this quack? "Whada, whada whada"?
@f0rtuzer07 жыл бұрын
Defence to which quack? What are you talking about. The vid title is shit, it needs correcting.
@rolandvantol7415 жыл бұрын
Heath Mawlet ..ever heard of freedom of ideas or speech? Greetings
@mrvocabulary67945 жыл бұрын
@@rolandvantol741 he is exercising his freedom of ideas and speech to criticize someone else's ideas and speech. Ever heard about not being discourteous by misspelling somebody's name?
@agnesb.99095 жыл бұрын
"I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature."
@joemackenzie7417 Жыл бұрын
"imagine our civilization reduced to three books.." im haunted by that perspective to the point i wanna go explore the remote amazon
@johnnyllooddte3415 Жыл бұрын
99% if mayans didnt go to school or do math
@Snowboarder5468810 жыл бұрын
Take the lol out of the title
@RemyThunderknife5 жыл бұрын
Make me
@rolandvantol7415 жыл бұрын
Raphael Pistor have u seen Feynmans discourse on...WHY? Greetings
@Mike-nf6nf5 жыл бұрын
@@RemyThunderknife Double down and add #YOLO.
@stervenmealey10975 жыл бұрын
lol
@OslerWannabe5 жыл бұрын
This is great - like getting dope slapped by your Jewish grandfather. The principle that he's dancing around in several of these videos is this - a "theory" is a ricipe, a list of steps that answers "how" something happened. It can't help with "why" questions. Those are the province of philosophy and religion.
@paulgbhc5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's not the point he's making. Understanding the math (or some surface aspect) is pointless if you dont fully understand the phenomenon behind it. The mayans understood the rate at which venus appeared, and could predict it, but that didnt mean they understood it. Religion and philosophy dont help much here. Feynman is warning his students not to become 'educated mayan priests' by learning the equations and shortcuts, you need to forment a deeper understanding Its a theme he visits in many lectures and interviews. Going so far as to say he would ignore the 'names' of theories in favour of understanding the full principles behind them
@smoothcriminal2810 жыл бұрын
Richard Feynman and Christopher Hitchens make me proud of being a human being.
@bonhamhouse11697 жыл бұрын
You have got to be kidding. Have you listened to this quack?
@f0rtuzer07 жыл бұрын
Says the nobody.
@smoothcriminal285 жыл бұрын
Bonham House lmao. Quack that changed the way we see the universe. Get off ur meds fat boy.
@w8m4n5 жыл бұрын
@@bonhamhouse1169 I'm guessing you're religious
@tasnimulsarwar91895 жыл бұрын
@@w8m4n oh definitely. He is one for sure.
@islandbuoy411 жыл бұрын
actually in fact there are 3 1/2 Mayan Codices that remain Now imagine John Lennon if the tables were turned and the Mayans invaded Europe, Middle East and what represented the 'western world' at the time? Imagine if the Maya burned all books in the west except 3 1/2 books? Jewish bIbLE Christian bIbLE Muslim Quran 1/2 book remains of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit LOL
@timeweston13 жыл бұрын
Those Priests 6:11 hehe nice spotting.
@sreeragm83664 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, that mic : Am I a joke to you?
@ESMAGOGA12 жыл бұрын
When God talks..
@aruserios76324 жыл бұрын
I want to like Feynman (it's not Feyman), and I DO like him, but I just don't get why people think his lectures (judging from the ones I have seen on the internet) are so informative and clever. To me, his presentations seem disorganized, highly redundant, and the points he eventually makes a little trivial. Please don't get all in a huff and make nasty replies, but, from what I have seen, I don't get his near cult status. I would much rather watch videos of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan, who I think are much better at presenting complicated ideas in an understandable, informative, and entertaining way.
@bilateralgalaxy17433 жыл бұрын
Haha he gave everyone the ghost finger right when he was mentioning the Spanish priests 🤣
@iconodo11 жыл бұрын
He knew how to open a hand to the so called "religion-science --["necessary?"]-- dialogue". But I feel that both realms (religion/science) did not listen or just turned their ears somewhere else. For the "extended hand" google THE MEANING OF IT ALL... last page of the book reports a quick response to a religious contemporary text; but there were no ears quick enough in that realm. But the scientific side was/is as slow/shy/foolish? who knows? Just confront wiht Feynman's Nobel Lecture
@rexsalazar61544 жыл бұрын
The best we never had
@venkatbabu1864 жыл бұрын
How do you find curvature of space. Let's take a straight line of distance m. Now the maximum bend it can have is my/2π. So ratio is 1to 1/2π. Now what happens beyond that. You have to split space or curl up to a spiral. When something curls it is clustered space and matter condensation. Extreme may result in a dot. Dot is a number. What do you mean by bending just energy storage.
@iconodo11 жыл бұрын
in youtube search "Richard Feynman New Zealand 1/4" min 26:10 "explain by a kind of an example... the mayan indians..." Hr 1:08:50 "the mayan thing... numbers were peculiar... [no] explanation" In youtube, search: "Mayan Cosmology Cycle Ends: Precision Cosmology Progresses" Dr. George Smoot talks, in min 11:46 "The Caracol Building / Venus... explanation" Was Feynman joking?
@johnnyllooddte3415 Жыл бұрын
only about 1000 mayans could write or read
@barrymiller993 жыл бұрын
Who has the closest to this man’ s combination of intellect, erudition, morality, courage and communication skills today, and how do we get him or her elected President?
@gblargg Жыл бұрын
Why do those things predict accurately? Because the things being predicted are performing the same thing as the counting are doing, in the abstract way both are being examined. They are very different physical systems that achieve the same thing.
@Under5tandGoBeyond12 жыл бұрын
notice he says 415 at 4:15..... talk about synchronicity
Typical Bronx accent. My grandfather sounded the same, always makes me smile
@meesalikeu5 жыл бұрын
Michael Serebreny he is from far rockaway queens, not the bx - although maybe his family moved there from the bx tho as it was considered early suburbia.
@deckiedeckie5 жыл бұрын
R. Feynman the greatest Amerikan ever ....!!
@SuperCuteAnimeWaifu4 жыл бұрын
What a pleasant view.
@natehoxie19145 жыл бұрын
I wish this video hadn't ended here. What is the point Feynman is trying to make? That all our models are numbers and that we should look at the math rather than try to understand the underlying process?
@mickeybowmeister19444 жыл бұрын
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria, or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man, who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens.
@tepan4d12 жыл бұрын
Fortunately the Mayans never developed weapons of destruction, or atomic bombs to keep the peace, with the story of security. The Knowledge was transferred, today referred to as Top Secret. So ignorance prevail.
@Weiszcracker12 жыл бұрын
December 21 2012... He knew....
@MixtheHustlar10 жыл бұрын
you can tell, that it annoys him that he doesnt know WHY ...
@boxerpop828 жыл бұрын
+MixtheHustlar That curiosity is why we become scientist in the first place haha
@JamesPeach7 жыл бұрын
2 years late but what do you mean? Mean by he doesn't know why, that is.
@luizpaulo65356 жыл бұрын
Seth Perry he means that feynman was annoyed that he didnt knew why
@strateeg325 жыл бұрын
This man is very smart, but I hope I am just missing the nuance or atleast that he skipped the nuance. For physics/science is not just about describing it also about finding the reason. That why we try to relate them to physical principles like how the movements and periods boil down to its essence into forces or gravity or space-time interactions. That is what Newton did when he tried to connect forces to acceleration etc. But here it seems like Feynman said on the end we don't care about the philosophical side or the why. It doesn't matter, it is useless. It all about describing and predicting. My old physics teacher once said that you can never disprove a good theory or prove it (what ever you prefer). Like how you can describe how an old thermometer (with He in it) works by physical and chemical properties (expansion and contraction of the fluid due to temperature) or you can describe it by saying inside the tube there lives a little monster that is scared of darkness and will cuddle up in darkness. But just because you can never prove which one is true, it is useful for extrapolating and describing possible new events.
@3halfshadows4 жыл бұрын
Feynman would agree with you. What he is trying to explain here is the difference between a model of reality and reality itself. Just because you have a model that gives fantastic predictions doesn't necessarily mean you understand nature. From the perspective of physics the only thing that matters is that the theory makes the right predictions. Different models, however, gives the physicist different ways of thinking and reasoning so they are valuable in that sense. He said something like "suppose you had two different theories that both gave the right predictions. Which one is right? There is no way of telling, not by science. And it is usually possible to show ahead of time that the two theories are mathematically equivalent even though the character of the theories could be very different. But it is still useful to know both theories because a change in one theory that is very simple, would result in a complicated change in the other theory and that the two theories gives the scientist more ways of thinking about a problem and that every scientist worth his or her salt knows 3 or 4 theories for describing whatever phenomenon they are looking at at the time." Watch his 7th Cornell lecture, "Theory, Prediction, Observation" for a more detail on Feynman's philosophizing on science.
@pubuman12 жыл бұрын
@astroboomboy I'm not sure if that particular story is true (I wouldn't be surprised) - but a lot of the latter European conquests of older civilizations led to this sort of thing quite a lot. The Spanish were bad, but so were the Brits etc ... and a lot of knowledge from the Arabic world was lost during the crusades for similar reasons ... and in China as well ...
@clayz15 жыл бұрын
Don’t leave out the ruthless Dutch plantation owners.
@dougg10754 жыл бұрын
I wonder what kind of a father he was.
@johnnyllooddte3415 Жыл бұрын
if they were off 6 days in 8 x 10 cycles why didnt they just use 6 cycles and add a day per year.. then they would be off 1 day in 100years
@gerRule5 жыл бұрын
Uploader is a bit slow I’m actually amazed he even uploaded such a video
@juderyangeguera87414 жыл бұрын
I'm late 10 years.
@liqian76193 жыл бұрын
Great man!
@NOMADdaf11 жыл бұрын
Where can I find this entire lecture?
@paul.59763 жыл бұрын
The most efficient way to destroy knowledge by accident or on purpose is to destroy books, a good example by accident is the library at Alexandria. It probably put civilization back a thousand years.
@tgstudio852 жыл бұрын
You can destroy science books but science will come eventually again, you can destroy religious books, and they will never come same as they were.
@saqibmasoodi62572 жыл бұрын
@@tgstudio85 That actually makes sense. Thats why there are some muslims who memorise the Qur'an in its entirety. The people who memorise it are called Hafiz-E- Qur'an. Its a pretty neat system, so even if there are no remaining scriptures in case of some disaster or war or whatever, it's still safe with the people.
@ZecariasGerrima4 жыл бұрын
Lol? And other funny stuff?!!
@NOMADdaf11 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@Under5tandGoBeyond11 жыл бұрын
Am I really supposed to answer this question?
@SeedsofJoy13 жыл бұрын
@gamernaveen Because he was a fucking genius.
@Tapecutter5913 жыл бұрын
Great clip but his name is misspelt in the title.
@davidmacintyre33352 жыл бұрын
3 books…..wtf!!
@astroboomboy13 жыл бұрын
Is the thing that he says about Mayans true? That is one of the most evil things I have ever heard...
@richardcarew47083 жыл бұрын
Feynman Diagrams = the same thing as Mayan calendars... really
@richardcarew47083 жыл бұрын
he knows that... fer sure and, these days, almost all Americans tell me they think math is hard because our wonderful "free" education >>> teaches Imperial system measurements.. from the Roman empire... imposed on the British who imposed them on us.. to collect taxes... from Roman numerals... with no zero... and.. ladies and gentlemen... it's absolutely impossible to do mathematics without a zero.. and that's why most Americans think math is hard... it's not just hard with no zero... it's impossible
@penmuni38334 жыл бұрын
If you are going to be ripping off someone's video to increase your audience, at least get the name right.
@VarunGoad84842 жыл бұрын
Einstein is backed i am watching you...
@SpeegBJ12 жыл бұрын
Feel the same
@dwcrabtree4 жыл бұрын
"free" education, or "general" education. Well, which one is it?
@StringDeposit5 жыл бұрын
WOW !!
@aallkoci5 жыл бұрын
Imagine our civilization reduced to the three books: Bible, Koran & Torah :/
@andjedani5 жыл бұрын
Superior
@deckiedeckie5 жыл бұрын
R. Feynman.....the greatest man e er came out of N. Amerika!
@Tesla_Death_Ray11 жыл бұрын
Surely
@tedgrant26 жыл бұрын
Jesus, of course, had amazing powers. He could fly and pick up really big rocks. He wore a special suit whilst performing miracles, but was an ordinary guy normally.
@meesalikeu5 жыл бұрын
tedgrant2 wait, did you just whilst jesus?
@non-inertialobserver9466 жыл бұрын
"lol"
@benjackowitz12 жыл бұрын
who is the one guy that dislikes this?
@wanderingsoul11892 жыл бұрын
The subtitles says penis instead of Venus.
@fixxxer92812 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahahahahaha
@superman00835 жыл бұрын
네?
@djdtahoe3 жыл бұрын
You should update the title and spell his name correctly
@TheKres778711 жыл бұрын
Those bastards! :(
@jamesfullwood77884 жыл бұрын
Can you at least edit your title and spell his name correctly?
@yulilestariknappdaily53822 жыл бұрын
I to busy saving someone else daughter yet i can't save my own 3 daughter 🤔 there what are 0 do not loop nor repeat yet it known to rebirth shin nun khaf= sinkap 🤔🤔🤔shod noun khof 🤦🏼♀️does not matter i said tomato you said tommatoes 😔