Indeed, a *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Richard-Feynman-The-Inconceivable-Nature-of-Nature
>> ^gwiz665:

It's a dupe, but it's just so great.

Feynman actually used a strip club as an office and defended it in court.

From Wikipedia:

"In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, he gives advice on the best way to pick up a girl in a hostess bar. At Caltech, he used a nude/topless bar as an office away from his usual office, making sketches or writing physics equations on paper placemats. When the county officials tried to close the place, all visitors except Feynman refused to testify in favor of the bar, fearing that their families or patrons would learn about their visits. Only Feynman accepted, and in court, he affirmed that the bar was a public need, stating that craftsmen, technicians, engineers, common workers "and a physics professor" frequented the establishment. While the bar lost the court case, it was allowed to remain open as a similar case was pending appeal.[12]"

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^mentality:
I wish I could've bought him a drink at a strip club and just listen to him talk all day.

I believe per his own specified criteria in this video he'd be too distracted to think.

>> ^mentality:

I wish I could've bought him a drink at a strip club and just listen to him talk all day.


I believe per his own specified criteria in this video he'd be too distracted to think.

REMEMBER Entropy merely states from "orderly" to "disorderly" in physics terms. Order is pure energy, disorder being the lack of that pure energy or the energy in dissociated forms (other than the e=mc^2 connection of course). In fact when you look at all the structuring and completely different things OTHER than pure energy, you know entropy is very well at work.

It doesn't mean CHAOS!!! I hate this Tripe (<--capital T).
Complexity is inferred in an entropic setup with time pointing the same direction as ours. No magic, no hocus-pocus needed. It breaks down and changes the structure to more obscure or "different forms" than that first moment. This is the same reason that people who look at the past with the mindset of using "the past" giving rise to statistics; which are helpful if you ONLY know their place. The chances that we would be here in reverse ARE 100% like his egg(unless quantum mechanics throws out a oddity: i.e. a virtual particle where there wasn't one, etc...).

Also, nothingness can't exist as he states. If you could even label it then it wouldn't, couldn't be; which is why in QM we have the quantum foam (QED, Richard Feynman) or quantum spacetime and virtual particles. The term nothingness is as closely related to the term virtual in a physics sense. In other words that idea is "kaput".

He's teaching the audience old, outdated, and sixth/seventh grade'ish material.

/Isn't TED supposedly new ideas being shown easily, like Feynman. They've been falling the last 6 months.

FYI - The video shows that having a constant diameter (cross-section) is not enough to show the shape is round. This was discovered to be a problem in getting segments of the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters to fit together. (The SRB segments would flex out of shape when they were transported across country lying sideways on railcars.) They had to be forced back to a round shape to fit together, with the O-rings in the gaps. As described in Richard Feynman's book, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", NASA would measure diameters at different points. But Feynman knew about the funny shapes in this video, and knew that diameter measurements did not prove roundness. The technicians on site always had to keep inspecting the segments as they came together to get them to fit together.

@Psychologic

Both of these positions are unsupportable because they claim knowledge of something unobservable. We can neither test for presence nor absence.

Agreed. I should have worked the word "probabilistic" somewhere into "a provisional designation of non-existence"; I sorta failed in trying to impress the somewhat tentative nature of my disbelief. I have varying beliefs, each with varying degrees of certainty, all of them provisional and subject to change based on new evidence; basically Richard Feynman's brilliantly communicated (and easily comprehended by literally anyone) response to the question of "not knowing" as seen in The Pleasure of Find Things Out.

I wanted to address some of your response bmacs, but I'm hard on time/energy. Maybe later!

*promote Come on, no Richard Feynman fans or viewers to upvote this?

Richard F&%KING Feynman! Here's an example:

>> ^cybrbeast:

You're supposed to be able to see the complete lectures in this series provided by microsoft, however the stupid player doesn't seem to work for me.


Works for me in firefox, thanks for the link. Maybe try reinstalling silverlight? There's a link at the top of that page for it.

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Believe me, I am the LAST person to believe superstitious mumbo jumbo (esp. Religion related)

Speed of light? psshhhaw that's just because we haven't figured it out YET.

Like I said anything is possible, however unlikely, and unless you are a goddess you have no plausibility in denying that fact.

good day to you,

Buck

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Thanks to VideoSift users over the years, that video tag "Richard Feynman" brings up dozens of examples of Feynman's stories and interviews. I had not heard his 'hungry philosophers' one before.. :-)

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>> ^westy:

I was expecting something more erotic than this .


Apparently your not enough of a geek then....



which is good.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'tricks, stories' to 'tricks, stories, james randi, richard feynman' - edited by gwiz665