Too bad he never did a project like Cosmos. His enthusiasm and ability to explain advanced physics in simple terms would have made a great teacher for the masses. At least some one had the brilliant idea of taping these interviews and we can still hear him talk in 2019

Feynman was a terrific improbable combination of a number of traits - openminded inquisitiveness, great personality, great with words, passionate, and other things. The world is filled with people that excel in one or more of those, but to see them all lined up in one person is rare.

“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.

Extraordinary Man. How he could re-tell his thought processes for us to comprehend the world around us , nobody before or since.

Dr Feynman, the very finest teacher... still... because he cared enough to record and share... from the heart

Thank you so much for uploading this series.

This is awesome! An interview with Feynman during the birth of the Standard Model! I am so glad I go on regular Feynman benders! This was great. I think this is how it should be taught in schools, cloud chambers, math diagrammes, than quarks and the Standard Model. This video should be required viewing by all physics students.

Thank you for uploading these. He is inspiring!

i absolutely love listening to this great man. it's comparable to beautiful music .

Thanks for posting these videos... Inspirational stuff!

Feymann Physics Course (Cal Tech 1961) the Red Books are still avaliable!!!

The intellect of humankind is so mysterious. It was born with a yearning that can never be quenched

The truth IS remarkable and amazing. Thanks for posting.

Wow...just wow. Sadly, I just learned about this guy and just from watching a couple videos of him I think he's amazing. His charisma is nearly jaw-dropping!

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.

Dude, that video is one of the funniest, most creative things I've seen in a long, long time - thanks for the suggestion

The truth is so much more remarkable... What a terribly great concept that is in itself a principle of all science.

yeah, but forget his genius for a moment. If I had half of his curiousity I'd be doing ok.

Adore listening to this inimitable genius.

3:54 "It is not complicated!"

"They were wondeul stories, but the truth is so much more remarkable." -- Indeed.

It continuous to amaze, when it comes to the universe. Imagination and curiosity, are very important.

The world desperately needs more people like this. Instead of false idols (Hollywood)

They were wonderful stories but the truth is so much more remarkable

"But it's not complicated, there's just a lot of it." Um, Dr. Feynman, it's pretty complicated to those of us who are merely human.

Thank you, Mr. Feynman. Finally, someone explained to me the basics of those chambers. Until now, I saw these weird pictures with all sorts of weirds squiggles in them, spirals and all, and when I asked, they'd just say, "Oh, this is a muon, this is a clingon, that is a bozon and this is a bizon." And I'd go, "Wait a minute. Before you tell me their names, tell me how they are produced." Now, in less than a minute, Mr. Feynman made it all very clear.

what a man.

I really do not know whether I can make a valid argument: One person is happy to accept the observable world as it is seen for the moment. The other delves into details and travels deep, to know how such miniscule details can proceed to build up a world, as the former sees. The common platform is the mind of each dictated by their individual egos. If each questions as to whence the ego arose from, the ego vanishes and a strange void rises. I believe that seeing that is seeing Reality . The seer is the self and is a part of that reality. Phew, I have said what I started to, hope it makes sense to the reader.

Amazing. What a great man he is.

I wish he could have seen the completed CERN particle accelerator ...his enthusiasm was very inspiring...

Pure genius ! I read all his books!

“We’re getting close.....”

The waves in the lake hitting the "shore"( what's the word) just when he says "waves" was just perfect. To use scientific discoveries to be able to live to experience a moment like that is more valuable a reward than honours, prizes or a membership at the club for people who put things on top of another. Or something.

from the simplest of rules comes the most complex of creatures, all started with the energy of the sun, what can be more amazing than that?

Fascinating to watch the quark explanation - before they even had a proper colour name!

Great upload. Cheers. Also, I am pretty sure this presenter must have been the inspiration for Palin and Idle's documentary voiceovers.

like the Gustav Holst sound track!

@SnuffThaRooster You antecipated my question, Thumbs up!

This man was high off life

love him

I worked out that 1 x 3000 is 3000

@jimmyti9cer my bad i misheard him. one question though, how does the piston in the bubble chamber expand the liquid hydrogen literally? since we know that liquids cannot be expanded/compressed? ive learnt about thermodynamics but mostly theoretically. visually im still not too sure.

6:22-6:27 that interviewer is jumping back from feynman like he was gonna hit him hahaha

Why didn't I have this man as a science teacher/father/older brother/uncle/neighbour?

it's turtles all the way down.

@icecreamandwine Originally only three quarks were required to explain everything. When we found certain particles we had to invent more.

I wish posters would say when the show was recorded. I couldn't care less when it was posted to KZfaq.

I too always want to start to know things from the beginning.. its exactly what he wanted from us..

"It's not complicated... there's just a lot of it" oh my god...

Love the Holst

" God is an operator " feynman

We need to know what determines the value of the gravitational force In The First place I think ?

7:37 Fascinating, quarks are still just a crazy theory.

Does anyone know the music 4:37 - 5:30 ?

@TheStigma While I believe that IQ is an imperfect method for measuring intelligence, I wouldn't put too much stock in reports of Feynman's "unremarkable" IQ. As I understand it, the score in the 120s was from a test taken when Feynman was a child - a test that had a much lower ceiling (around the 99th percentile) than most official IQ tests, making it's accuracy questionable.

4:45 Nice choice of Neptune.

careful feynman those huge sharp 70s shirt collars are a deadly weapon

@starsolace you should try, 'cause it's a matter of practice really. and without the math there's no truly understanding (or let's say 'appreciation of beauty') (and by the way, i study physics)

I'm pretty sure they hadn't been discovered yet from how feynman looks i'm guessing this is from about early 70s and it was only at this time that the other three quarks were being theorized with the bottom and charm quarks being discovered shortly after but it took till 1995 to discover the top quark

The received pronunciation of the narrator makes this sound like a Monty Phyton sketch

@Bnjolly I wouldn't be surprised if Feynman's intellectual development, like that of many gifted children, was lopsided: he may have tested at the ceiling of the mathematical portion of the IQ test, while only testing average or slightly above average in the verbal portion. This could very well lead to an overall score in the mid-120s. Such a score, however, hardly tells us what Feynman might have scored on a more accurate test as an adult.

Genius

It's a pity he died at the time when supercomputers were starting to be built that can take the simple rules of the game and not only easily beat any human at chess but also reproduce the complexity of earth's climate, the folding of a protien molecule, the mammalian neocortex and the interaction of galaxies. I wonder what he would have done with such a machine?

Three types of quarks? I was under the impression that it was 6: up, down, top, bottom, charm, strange. Am I misunderstanding what he meant by 3 types, or they were discovered after this video was made?

He summerizng perfectly how I feel about computers. Literal magic, like how am I typing this right now it's insane.

@Bnjolly Yea - my research into it wasn't really "in-depth" so to speak either. It was more along the lines of putting "richard feynman iq" into a google search - so yea - take it with a grain of salt indeed. Thanks for the clarification in any case.

Ditto!

@cipher314 Guess he felt like Feynman invaded his bubble. :)

6:26 feynman scared the shit outta teh interviewer with his hand

He would have loved the LHC.

He had a great sense oh humor. You should read Surely, you're joking Mr Feynman(by hisown words). Also read James Gleick "Genius" about Feynman. No Physicist comes closer to this Curious Character for mastery in many things apart from Physics. Einstein was self-taught in violin. So there were many Physicists with different talents but none like RPF.

Love your energy Richard, now open up your beautiful mind and show some respect for Mother Turtle. The truly wise use parable and allegory. Who better to describe the carrier of the cosmic egg we temporarily call home than by the name of the one who cares for the sea, the great mother turtle. The holy cow of the sea! It is a marvel, containing the entire ocean of the cosmic egg on top of her! Not to mention, there are tunnels under the ocean that no man knows and perhaps there truly are giant beings. Best to establish telepathic connections with the most high and holy beings imaginable!

@senorMiguelCoconut It's mentioned that he's 54, so that would make it 1972 or 1973.

Agreed. We need a Bruce Lee of economics.

Can I have 1/1,000,000,000 of his brainpower so I can finish college?

@tml4873 thanks!

@Arkanovi1989 lol. awesome.

I just love how Feynman keeps saying stuff like "its not very hard..." when talking about how to interpret the results of a nuclear accelerator's experiments lol. Yea - it kind of IS pretty hard Mr. Feynman - you sexy beast - for the rest of us who are under the 99,99 percentile IQ. Stop making the rest of us look bad damnit!

his brain looks huge!

5:36??? expand a gas so it will boil? am i missing something here?

What does Feynman mean "half of us sticking upside down" ?? How can we have an up or down? At a guess, it's related to gravity.

im zero compared to feynman but im glad to say I also have this disease.I dont want the cure either.

Notice the height of forehead, it's like those novel depictions of super-intelligent cartoon aliens with an exaggerated head size.

@thegoonist I think you misheard him. He said a liquid, not a gas.

I... kind of just want to hear Feynman talk. I get a little annoyed when the commentator interrupts or does his narration.

can you please add to the description the year when this was aired (if you know it)? thank you :)

I completely agree with you, but as a supporter of women in science I would add that he is a role model for you women as well.

@Linkwii64 You are Feynman. ure da men!

Climate models do have hurricanes emerge in the correct regions. Katrina's tidal surge was predicted by similar models three days in advance, I was in Australia and read it 2 days before Katrina hit. Not bad for a wether prediction. However climate prediction is not weather prediction even though they do use similar software models. In many respects climate is easier to predict because it's stable over long perdiods of time.

@Linkwii64 with all due respect sir, I sincerley doubt it

i think like Feynman

Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman! is a very interesting read for those interested and want to read further on

or very low pressure

The lungs

I must say he is one of the real legendary person in this earth

Glad I'm a sun worshipper

*I know the answers to all his questions*

RF SO.... GOOD

"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"

Dr Emment Brown was great. But what makes you think that Sagan could have been an inspiration for Agent Smith?