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Feynman.

virtual particles are BS

This man was amazing. I could only imagine how wonderful any lecture with him would have been. Even in this video although I've seen this clip before, I found myself drawn to his words, sucked in his explanation, loving every syllable of that calm, warm voice... only to get abruptly interrupted by those ignorant shitheads.

this motherfucker's gettin' me pissed

He puts "I could try to explain it, but you're too dumb to understand." so eloquently. I agree though. Even if I don't understand every bit of the concept he's explaining, I'm drawn in to hear what he has to say.

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Fucking genius.

We've got a fascinating lecturer for astronomy. You're completely drawn in, i feel pretty lucky he's at our uni.

It's a good point too. Some things cannot be explained by analogy, because nothing is quite like it. Analogies only give a very vague description of anything, and science is anything but vague.

>> ^ElessarJD:

He puts "I could try to explain it, but you're too dumb to understand." so eloquently. I agree though. Even if I don't understand every bit of the concept he's explaining, I'm drawn in to hear what he has to say.

No, no. He's not saying you're too dumb to understand it, just that there's no other way to describe what a magnet is doing when it repels/attracts. It just is.

Actually I thought he did explain it really well when he described how all the iron atoms being aligned in the same direction cause the combined force of the spinning electrons to act in one direction - that's fairly straight forward methinks, and certainly made it "make sense" to me in a way I have not understood it before.

I'm not so sure the Clowns ad anything to this video.
I prefer the original without them interrupting.

http://videosift.com/video/Feynman-Magnets-and-Why-questions

I'd like to call it a dupe because the Clowns dubbed in is so brief, there's no real point to having them there..
Sorry dystopianfuturetoday, I can't vote this up - I'd prefer to send this to discuss but I won't unless @cybrbeast wants to step up and defend the original post.

Cheers!

I couldn't really care. I guess the clowns add a new dimension to the video. Clowns might be ridiculed but fucking magnets are difficult to understand.

We've found out only a bit more about how it works (Electromagnetism) since this video. Most of the knowledge comes from our particle accelerators. (We've found particles that specifically carry the force, which combine into atoms, then elements, then molecules, and so on...)

Even if we explain how everything works (we figure out gravity's connection, what makes energy into mass) we're still left with origin answers. If you understand Quantum Mechanics w/QED (and as Feynman would say it that, "You don't!") you might allow some to see that "perhaps" we were created from nothing, it just required time.

This is something that we can "conceive" and "imagine". Understanding has definitions with clear boundaries, were as the Universe it seems may only be something that is only "conceivable" until It can define Itself.

/(Being able to "define" itself could be a term to subjectively describe Humanity.)(Or Aliens...)

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The only thing the "ICP" added to that speech is that they're correct, but only if the question was asked by a serious mind. Otherwise, they show their complete and utter lack of any knowledge we've had available--to them--since before they were born. It's a parody (almost dark irony; new *tag?) only in the sense of how ridiculously rampant this type of thinking is; in the common populace. It's more ironically sad (as above), in a lot of ways. Their video shows (atleast in their city school zone) how ineffective our teaching methodology/funding is. (Not the teachers; more society and the structure of learning. Teachers tend to be the only glue holding anything together. I've had more than enough first hand knowledge and/or witnessing.)

I could add on forever. The Teachers are willing to change and many bend over backwards; paying for NEW texts (sometimes buying new texts so they don't use some text that has been broken by another state), materials (chemistry, biology, music, etc... pay the most -- unless you're an elementary teacher...then you pay 1/10 your paycheck, if you care for your kids). IT'S not the teachers and the children will go with the flow. There needs to be an ideological change in how kids are taught. I'd go with a college type. Small classes, higher budgets, good training for teachers. Consequences that will make a bully STOP, and if they don't make sure there are classes to help them and if necessary the parents as well. (Yes, parents should be able to be pulled from work.) On staff Doctors/Psych to always help (I know some are starting this). Apprenticing. Not holding a kid back in all areas cause they suck at one. I could go on for awhile longer. Some of this might require us to demobilize the military/industrial complex. Look at how well they can teach "children/teenagers with no hope" into a Tier One Operator, SOC etc...

/Didn't mean to be so long, but as you can see, the "ICP" really bug me.

Fucking chairs, why they always pushing me away? . . . Oh I see, thank you professor.

pussy magnets. how do they work?

QED is an awesome book. He's not the best writer in a classical sense, but he writes like he would talk, which makes it easier to understand.

Guage theory and virtual particles are a bit too complicated to explain to a layman. They didn't even mention them when I took intro quantum mechanics in college. Virtual particles explain how photons carry electrostatic attractions and repulsions without violating the law of conservation of energy.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Feynman-Magnets-and-Why-questions

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