I know this is old but I hope some still read this: When I was in HS my counselor introduced me to Feynman. He’s a great storyteller. There are books, art, him telling stories on tape, he loved bongos and lockpicking. Just awesome all over
Wow. The moment he started talking about static electricity over a distance and how touch is limited in range because it's just more neutral, everything clicked. Not one person has helped me make that connection between everything on a large scale until now, and I'm halfway through a physics degree D: I need to read more of his stuff... It takes a true genius to explain complicated things in the simplest terms, and he was definitely one of them.
Feynman wasn't afraid to talk about the mystery behind the nature of nature and how little of it we really understand. This was decades ago, but it feels as if he's talking to us today (but from the moon).
When Feynman was talking about the force of electricity being greater than the force of gravity he was trying to explain the difference in scale (e.g. a number with 38 or 40 zeros behind it). I heard another person try to explain the difference in scale in this way. _Basically the electrons on that comb are able to over power the force of gravity generated by the _*_entire planet_*_ ._
Given two particles the same distance away, mass 1kg and charge 1C each. The electrical interaction will be ~10^40 greater than the gravitational one. This difference is caused by the different constants in coulomb's law and newton's law. 1/4pi*ɛ is much much greater than G the universal gravitational constant.
That is bullshit what you are saying...maxwell was nothing equal to to Einstein or newton...He just combined the equations given by different scientist with some modifications
Maxwell and Faraday should always be mentioned together. Like protons and electrons, they attracted to make some of the most historic and fascinating discoveries. And to describe what they saw in terms of math is truly a gift Maxwell gave to future generations.
@@abdullahahmad2474 *_that no one else managed to solve_* That's like saying Einstein was nothing special because the theory of general and special relativity was staring everyone in the face. If you actually think about it it's painfully obvious, except it took a 20-something year old patent clerk to point it out.
Bro, NEWTON and EINSTEIN are gods NO ONE can be compared to them. Feynman, maxwell, faraday, dirac, bohr are very very great scientists But NEWTON and EINSTEIN are wayyyy greater than the term great
Don't underestimate how difficult it is to just sit and speak continuously about physics without misspeaking from time to time. This is an unimaginably brilliant man. He's not confused..he just has trouble translating sometimes. He meant motions within the copper wires. The potential field is what initially drives the electrons. The magnetic field is just a relativistic effect of the moving charges, but what he is saying is right too.(aside from the initial wording)
I love listening to him although I'm gonna be honest I don't understand everything. listening to him talk about all of this complicated stuff about electricity made me think about how amazing it is that humans have made a way for me to sit here and watch and listen to this interview of feynman from many years ago. Imagine all the complicated shit involved in making my headset make the sounds and the screen make the picture etc etc, dang the world is a mysterious place.
exams and research brought me here and as a college student who "hates" physics I must say this man is the only dude that made physics look so interesting or fun to me(I actually sat and smiled through the whole video thinking about electrons around me).
Feynman had an incredible intellect and was such an eloquent, patient and understanding person. Can't help but wonder how he would get on in a bare knuckle fight with Carl Sagan though. I guess we'll never know now.
Every time I listen to Feynman I discover something new. What a jewel of a man. Just to think he is still alive making our days thanks to electricity having been invented !
I think he's the greatest man who ever lived. Maybe if there were videos of Newton, or Einstein, I'd think differently, but honestly I've never seen someone so brilliant and so engaged and so... philosophically tuned to everything he's ever looked at. Dr. Feynman, I salute you, now and always.
It would be so great if people could translate this in a video for my kids in the 9th grade learn with one of the masters of physics what is electricity. Maravilous!!
It's his enthusiam and wonder that he conveys.....That's what's missing in a lot of science teachers....you can't put a price education at this impact level.........This is what science teachers should studying.....
How peculiar life is. The other day I picked a book up from my local charity shop.This book was a biography of James Clerk Maxwell. 'The Man Who Changed Everything'. I have an interest in the physical sciences, but only as a hobby, and here I am, after watching the BBC drama about Richard Feynman and he also mentions Maxwell. Now I know that that isn't anything unexpected but I just the love how little nuggets of 'coincidence' come along every once in a while.
Idk why the way Feynman talks reminds me of Bruce lee , or Bruce lee reminds me of Feynman , the way they talk , the passion spills out of their eyes , the eyes light up . The confidence, idk what it is but these two gentlemen of complete different disciplines light up something inside of me when they talk .
I wonder if any of this great man’s students sit back and realise how incredibly fortunate they were to have been taught by one of the greatest teachers that has ever graced a lecture theatre? …. And the golden opportunity missed by those who may have dropped out….
re: electricity competent mastery over short distances we have attained longer distances linked to ideas like 'spooky action at a distance', 'entanglement', etc. are currently being addressed ... ... by everybody wishing to win a noble NOBEL prize
I just discovered this guy about 40 minutes ago. It is sad to learn he has passed on. I will watch all his videos. I've read and heard so many ways of explaining things that I've never been able to understand, but when I hear him speak, I don't even have to try to understand him, it just makes sense. I want everyone in the world to watch his videos. I feel like they should show this stuff in school or parents should share it with their kids.
just wait till you try to understand him explaining quantum-electro-dynamics. Even the power of Feynman to explain things easily starts to break down with QED and general relativity.
He is probably referring to a self-excited generator, which makes its own magnetic field. Practical versions of those machines do require iron yokes, though. He is correct that one could make a self-excited machine just from a conducting metal like copper, but it would probably require an impractically high frequency of rotation to be efficient, if it could be made efficient, at all. He was not an engineer, so to him the theoretical possibility was exciting enough, he didn't have to calculate a feasible design to have fun with the idea. Having said that, he surely could have, had he wanted to.
I just watched this muted with The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows - playing in the background. I think there's a Lennon-Feyman jiggling strings connection.
Just wondering; how much could the drift of an electron be, in terms of, like, meters per second when subjected under, say 1 volt of electric potential?
The election would be accelerated by the potential difference oim the same way as an apple would be accelerated downwards by gravity if released from a height. The kinetic energy gained by the charged election would be 1ev which I think is 1.6x 10to the power of 19 joules If you look up the mass of an election, you can use KE =1/2 X m xv squared to find the final velocity of the election
What are the reasons for the electrons and protons not collapsing? Feynman attributes it to a in Quantum Mechanics, anyone with a good explanation? Thanks,
+sathya narayana Conservation of angular momentum, what stops them from flying away is a deeper question, don't get an attitude if someone who's put their life into a subject won't entertain you with a answer to question you happen to have unless their your teacher and its about the subject your studying, then demand it!
+sathya narayana In the quantum world, don't treat particles as points in space. They are rather described by probabilities of being at some point of space than exact locations. So we can't say that an electron really flyes in a circle, we can rather say that most of its time it stays inside some region of space which can be called its orbit. The functions that describe the probabilities of an electron to be somewhere satisfy some equations. But I don't know where these equations come from, sorry.
The best way I can explain this to you is to imagine the mechanical system as a logarithmic decaying curve in where at small values of X, which we will call distance, the efficiency, Y, will be higher than using electricity. Examples are your car. However, AC electricity, which we will imagine as an exponential curve, will over take the logarithmic curve at large values of distance X, which means its efficiency is much better. Continued.......
I remember being a kid and brushing my hand through my stuffed animal's hair and suddenly blue sparks started coming off it. The more I brushed the more sparks/light was coming off. It seemed miraculous to me. I realised it was the same static I could feel on my fingers during the day, but that now it was visible in the dark. Give it a try :)
@jno1686 I remember learning physics in school and electronics in college. Not all the teachers were good @ explaining what they knew but the ones that did know did a very good job. I only made the comment to point out that we now have more scientist then ever but they still have problems explaining theories. Then along come the politicians to explain climates science but with political solutions to problems that science could solve if it was allowed to. Hope you get my drift.
7:00 sounds a lot like relationships - the bigger the differential the more mysterious the force becomes. in liquids it's temperature differentials and bose-einstein condensates. Super fluids. Science is so cool.
Carlos Silva Likes repelling likes is simple and accurate enough. We can all experience, understand or at least accept it. Exclusion principle, even though it may be more fundamental, is, as F said, not understood by (m)any!
No one knows what Dark Energy is. It is just a label for "whatever is causing the universe to accelerate in its expansion" (which has yet to be answered by science).
My engineering prof suggested that if the Mechanical engineers had been a little faster we would have had line shafts running down from the Dam instead of wires and gear reductions instead of transformers. This is what we call an analog. Then there is a hydraulic analog with pumps and motors. Fluid?
As an electrical engineer, I can say his analogy of a hydroelectric power plant and the distribution network is bad. I can see where his physicist mind comes in, the fundamentals of transformers, inductors, motors, conductors etc are. But no. He studied electrodynamics.
That's not how Feynman actually thinks about electricity. That's how he thinks it should be explained to the layman, which is incorrect. We shouldn't try to find classical analogs for electricity any longer. Those don't get people any further in their understanding about nature than their plumber.
IF positives and negatives are imbalanced on a matter due to some cause and fails to cancel out each other, I assume the matter becomes polarized and eventually hazardous radioactive?
Did dentists use electric drills back then? Because the modern air one was created in 1868... Methinks Mr feynman was on a flight of fancy here, and was mistaken... But his meanderings about things are always awesome, even if what kicked whatever one of them off was maybe not quite right.
Why don't we teach young children about the nature of electric current in something like this way, with good clear qualitative understanding? Because most of us as adults don't know and don't want to admit to ourselves that we don't.
Well, I am not sure you are learning all that much about physics from him. He wrote absolutely fabulous professional papers. One or two are probably right up there with the very best science writing that exists. But sadly, his undergrad textbooks are really bad, so bad that I would not advise you to use them, and when he confabulates about physics, it all turns into a steaming mess. This is not what physics is. It's more like a clear cut diamond than a pile of goo, especially when Feynman is at his best. Here he isn't.
Feynman was the greatest of all time. Period. ^v^ listening to Feynman is like consolidating the intelligence of the greatest minds in human history. He’s Probably more intelligent than an alien race which may or may not be out there ;)
What he is doing at the beginning is defamiliarisation,we look at things everyday and take them for granted but if we take a closer look at the processes of nature everything seems the more amazing!
nar, electric forces are well known. Electric forces I think just come from excess proton charges or excess electron charges in a given space. I think dark energy can exist without having any protons or electrons in a given space. I don't think the source of dark energy is hardly known at all yet
Therefore, if you want to get 500 horsepower from a mechanical source, as an example, that is say over 30 miles away, then you would be better off to turn that mechanical power into electrical power and then back into mechanical power with an electric motor that is 30 miles away from the source. To do this same method with mechanical means would lead to major losses and high maintenance costs!!!
I really like the way he speaks, it's like a melody.
Cee Four Tee Seeing the joy flowing out of Feynman helps the same flow out of you and me.
I know this is old but I hope some still read this:
When I was in HS my counselor introduced me to Feynman. He’s a great storyteller. There are books, art, him telling stories on tape, he loved bongos and lockpicking. Just awesome all over
He’s like a musician riffing on a guitar…
And that’s what I’m thinking about when you’re drilling on my tooth.
Wow. The moment he started talking about static electricity over a distance and how touch is limited in range because it's just more neutral, everything clicked. Not one person has helped me make that connection between everything on a large scale until now, and I'm halfway through a physics degree D: I need to read more of his stuff... It takes a true genius to explain complicated things in the simplest terms, and he was definitely one of them.
Feynman wasn't afraid to talk about the mystery behind the nature of nature and how little of it we really understand. This was decades ago, but it feels as if he's talking to us today (but from the moon).
I wanna call him up. What's his phone number?
Finally!! A quality production with no annoying, distracting background music! Thank you for this.
When Feynman was talking about the force of electricity being greater than the force of gravity he was trying to explain the difference in scale (e.g. a number with 38 or 40 zeros behind it). I heard another person try to explain the difference in scale in this way. _Basically the electrons on that comb are able to over power the force of gravity generated by the _*_entire planet_*_ ._
@@nietzschesghost8529 i just felt an admiration for you sir 👍😛🙏
Given two particles the same distance away, mass 1kg and charge 1C each. The electrical interaction will be ~10^40 greater than the gravitational one. This difference is caused by the different constants in coulomb's law and newton's law. 1/4pi*ɛ is much much greater than G the universal gravitational constant.
That's a bit misleading, since the charges on the comb are much much closer than the center of mass of the planet.
@@creillyucla It's not about the planet's gravitational pull, it's about the atoms'.
Prof. Shankar is the other person you are referring to?
Nice that he mentioned Maxwell . A man who should be mentioned along with Newton Einstein & Feynman .
Long live Dirac
That is bullshit what you are saying...maxwell was nothing equal to to Einstein or newton...He just combined the equations given by different scientist with some modifications
Maxwell and Faraday should always be mentioned together. Like protons and electrons, they attracted to make some of the most historic and fascinating discoveries. And to describe what they saw in terms of math is truly a gift Maxwell gave to future generations.
@@abdullahahmad2474 *_that no one else managed to solve_*
That's like saying Einstein was nothing special because the theory of general and special relativity was staring everyone in the face. If you actually think about it it's painfully obvious, except it took a 20-something year old patent clerk to point it out.
Bro, NEWTON and EINSTEIN are gods
NO ONE can be compared to them.
Feynman, maxwell, faraday, dirac, bohr
are very very great scientists
But NEWTON and EINSTEIN are wayyyy greater than the term great
Khan academy brought me here.
Me too!
Me too!!!
Me too ♥️
Me too
Same
You can tell he truly loves physics by the smile he had throughout the explanation!
Don't underestimate how difficult it is to just sit and speak continuously about physics without misspeaking from time to time. This is an unimaginably brilliant man. He's not confused..he just has trouble translating sometimes. He meant motions within the copper wires. The potential field is what initially drives the electrons. The magnetic field is just a relativistic effect of the moving charges, but what he is saying is right too.(aside from the initial wording)
He seems like a wonderful, insightful gentleman. We were lucky to have him. 🙏
Excellent, excellent, excellent! He really thought these things through!
Thanks for this! Feynman is so special to be able to explain and help us understand without endless math!
I read his book Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman when I was 13 and I absolutely loved it. I still marvel at the wonderful GENIUS this man was!
Kahn Academy brought me here … what great analogies!
I love listening to him although I'm gonna be honest I don't understand everything. listening to him talk about all of this complicated stuff about electricity made me think about how amazing it is that humans have made a way for me to sit here and watch and listen to this interview of feynman from many years ago. Imagine all the complicated shit involved in making my headset make the sounds and the screen make the picture etc etc, dang the world is a mysterious place.
at your heart your a physicist..go to school, learn more, even if its hard...i did, you can also!!❤
I now have a lot more to think about when I next see my dentist. Thanks for this, nebulajr!
The perfect combination of entertaining and brilliant!
exams and research brought me here and as a college student who "hates" physics I must say this man is the only dude that made physics look so interesting or fun to me(I actually sat and smiled through the whole video thinking about electrons around me).
Feynman had an incredible intellect and was such an eloquent, patient and understanding person.
Can't help but wonder how he would get on in a bare knuckle fight with Carl Sagan though. I guess we'll never know now.
How awesome would it be if Feynman was alive to make videos with Brady??
yeah
he would love it the most i suppose
feynman i mean
Who is Brady?
Binu Jasim Brady Haran
Agreed...I've only just discovered these youtube videos. What a priceless set of vids!
Every time I listen to Feynman I discover something new. What a jewel of a man. Just to think he is still alive making our days thanks to electricity having been invented !
Invented not, discovered !
I think he's the greatest man who ever lived. Maybe if there were videos of Newton, or Einstein, I'd think differently, but honestly I've never seen someone so brilliant and so engaged and so... philosophically tuned to everything he's ever looked at. Dr. Feynman, I salute you, now and always.
It would be so great if people could translate this in a video for my kids in the 9th grade learn with one of the masters of physics what is electricity.
Maravilous!!
Well sir, I am currently studying this all in 9th grade only.
It's his enthusiam and wonder that he conveys.....That's what's missing in a lot of science teachers....you can't put a price education at this impact level.........This is what science teachers should studying.....
At school I never "got" science, and then I read a book by Richard Feynman and I finally "got" science - for that he will forever be one of my heroes
seems like the top comment is whoever can sit and listen to him the longest, so i can sit and listen to him for YEARS!
How peculiar life is. The other day I picked a book up from my local charity shop.This book was a biography of James Clerk Maxwell. 'The Man Who Changed Everything'. I have an interest in the physical sciences, but only as a hobby, and here I am, after watching the BBC drama about Richard Feynman and he also mentions Maxwell. Now I know that that isn't anything unexpected but I just the love how little nuggets of 'coincidence' come along every once in a while.
It's only coppah!
Brooklyn ;)
Fugetaboutit! It's just coppah.
Can't believe this interview happened on 1983.
Idk why the way Feynman talks reminds me of Bruce lee , or Bruce lee reminds me of Feynman , the way they talk , the passion spills out of their eyes , the eyes light up . The confidence, idk what it is but these two gentlemen of complete different disciplines light up something inside of me when they talk .
I wonder if any of this great man’s students sit back and realise how incredibly fortunate they were to have been taught by one of the greatest teachers that has ever graced a lecture theatre? …. And the golden opportunity missed by those who may have dropped out….
re: electricity
competent mastery over short distances we have attained
longer distances linked to ideas like 'spooky action at a distance', 'entanglement', etc. are currently being addressed ...
... by everybody wishing to win a noble NOBEL prize
He's like a strange mix of Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Harry Shearer. Love it!
So true. I love you ❤️ man. Jack Nicholson I could see it but idk why no one agreed.
Ive been listening to him for days
Well said. :)
If I had a possibility to live only a day with anyone ever being alive that would be R.P. Feynman.
I will never look at my e-cig the same way again.
If only Feynman had met what the internet is today
I believe Dr. Feynman would be in his element with today's internet. He was very good at programming computers to help him solve difficult problems.
I just discovered this guy about 40 minutes ago. It is sad to learn he has passed on. I will watch all his videos. I've read and heard so many ways of explaining things that I've never been able to understand, but when I hear him speak, I don't even have to try to understand him, it just makes sense. I want everyone in the world to watch his videos. I feel like they should show this stuff in school or parents should share it with their kids.
just wait till you try to understand him explaining quantum-electro-dynamics. Even the power of Feynman to explain things easily starts to break down with QED and general relativity.
Love his new yorker accent.. coppah.. jiggling the coppah
he just loved it all so much
Interesting video
He was a great man!
Great vid man keep up the great work!
he put such passion into it this guy's an artist he explains it poetically Tuesday March 26th 3:39 in the morning listening to a great explanation
I love the way he's enjoying what he is saying about!
Can someone explain the part where he says 'you only need copper'? The knotting and un-knotting part?
He is probably referring to a self-excited generator, which makes its own magnetic field. Practical versions of those machines do require iron yokes, though. He is correct that one could make a self-excited machine just from a conducting metal like copper, but it would probably require an impractically high frequency of rotation to be efficient, if it could be made efficient, at all. He was not an engineer, so to him the theoretical possibility was exciting enough, he didn't have to calculate a feasible design to have fun with the idea. Having said that, he surely could have, had he wanted to.
I just watched this muted with The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows - playing in the background. I think there's a Lennon-Feyman jiggling strings connection.
Just wondering; how much could the drift of an electron be, in terms of, like, meters per second when subjected under, say 1 volt of electric potential?
The election would be accelerated by the potential difference oim the same way as an apple would be accelerated downwards by gravity if released from a height.
The kinetic energy gained by the charged election would be 1ev which I think is 1.6x 10to the power of 19 joules
If you look up the mass of an election, you can use KE =1/2 X m xv squared to find the final velocity of the election
That's in free space.Within a copper wire,
Use the equation I=nqv I think.look it up
1 ev =1.6 X 10 ^ -19j
What are the reasons for the electrons and protons not collapsing? Feynman attributes it to a in Quantum Mechanics, anyone with a good explanation?
Thanks,
+sathya narayana Conservation of angular momentum, what stops them from flying away is a deeper question,
don't get an attitude if someone who's put their life into a subject won't entertain you with a answer to question you happen to have
unless their your teacher and its about the subject your studying, then demand it!
+sathya narayana In the quantum world, don't treat particles as points in space. They are rather described by probabilities of being at some point of space than exact locations. So we can't say that an electron really flyes in a circle, we can rather say that most of its time it stays inside some region of space which can be called its orbit. The functions that describe the probabilities of an electron to be somewhere satisfy some equations. But I don't know where these equations come from, sorry.
Wave-particle duality
The best way I can explain this to you is to imagine the mechanical system as a logarithmic decaying curve in where at small values of X, which we will call distance, the efficiency, Y, will be higher than using electricity. Examples are your car. However, AC electricity, which we will imagine as an exponential curve, will over take the logarithmic curve at large values of distance X, which means its efficiency is much better. Continued.......
Is this the continuation(word?) to the video called "Richard Feynman Magnets" by the same uploader?
it depends on the economy right?
I remember being a kid and brushing my hand through my stuffed animal's hair and suddenly blue sparks started coming off it. The more I brushed the more sparks/light was coming off. It seemed miraculous to me. I realised it was the same static I could feel on my fingers during the day, but that now it was visible in the dark.
Give it a try :)
We love Feynman!
Ricky's very keen on jiggling.
The universe seems to be keen on jiggling.
Richard is like Bob Ross in physics just slowly and beautifully explains something so you can picture it vividly 😆
@jno1686 I remember learning physics in school and electronics in college. Not all the teachers were good @ explaining what they knew but the ones that did know did a very good job. I only made the comment to point out that we now have more scientist then ever but they still have problems explaining theories. Then along come the politicians to explain climates science but with political solutions to problems that science could solve if it was allowed to. Hope you get my drift.
7:00 sounds a lot like relationships - the bigger the differential the more mysterious the force becomes. in liquids it's temperature differentials and bose-einstein condensates. Super fluids. Science is so cool.
This fella is comprised 🎯💯
surprised he didn't mention Paulis exclusion as an explanation of why your finger pushes things.
Carlos Silva Likes repelling likes is simple and accurate enough. We can all experience, understand or at least accept it. Exclusion principle, even though it may be more fundamental, is, as F said, not understood by (m)any!
Is dark energy the same force?? Sorry if I sound stupid. Just being curious.
James Sarginson No.
No one knows what Dark Energy is. It is just a label for "whatever is causing the universe to accelerate in its expansion" (which has yet to be answered by science).
My engineering prof suggested that if the Mechanical engineers had been a little faster we would have had line shafts running down from the Dam instead of wires and gear reductions instead of transformers. This is what we call an analog.
Then there is a hydraulic analog with pumps and motors. Fluid?
I love this guy
As an electrical engineer, I can say his analogy of a hydroelectric power plant and the distribution network is bad. I can see where his physicist mind comes in, the fundamentals of transformers, inductors, motors, conductors etc are. But no. He studied electrodynamics.
That's not how Feynman actually thinks about electricity. That's how he thinks it should be explained to the layman, which is incorrect. We shouldn't try to find classical analogs for electricity any longer. Those don't get people any further in their understanding about nature than their plumber.
With a teacher like him, even a dummy like me can learn quantum mechanics. This man is god to me.
He should be the face of all learning starting at K to 99!
Richard Feynman is to science, what Clint Eastwood is to Hollywood 😂
Khan Academy?
7:23 PM
1/20/2019
IF positives and negatives are imbalanced on a matter due to some cause and fails to cancel out each other, I assume the matter becomes polarized and eventually hazardous radioactive?
professorfidelcat No, not at all. An imbalance of charge does not make something radioactive.
One remarkable thing about Feynman is that he was always right.
How much dumbed down should it be?
Omg I think I just started to understand physics.
Feynman’s favourite word is “Jiggle”
What did he study?Thank you.
Mister Slovenia physics. He contributed a great deal to particle physics specifically
Did dentists use electric drills back then? Because the modern air one was created in 1868... Methinks Mr feynman was on a flight of fancy here, and was mistaken... But his meanderings about things are always awesome, even if what kicked whatever one of them off was maybe not quite right.
Even the pneumatic drills ultimately run on electricity.
WHY DOES MANSON LIVE AND GANDOLFINI AND FEYNMAN DIE .?
Great guy, i wonder what his thoughts were about consciousness..
No sound :'(
Why don't we teach young children about the nature of electric current in something like this way, with good clear qualitative understanding? Because most of us as adults don't know and don't want to admit to ourselves that we don't.
293k views in 12 years. A Kardashian farting gets millions of views in hours.
That's the world we live in.
Well, I am not sure you are learning all that much about physics from him. He wrote absolutely fabulous professional papers. One or two are probably right up there with the very best science writing that exists. But sadly, his undergrad textbooks are really bad, so bad that I would not advise you to use them, and when he confabulates about physics, it all turns into a steaming mess. This is not what physics is. It's more like a clear cut diamond than a pile of goo, especially when Feynman is at his best. Here he isn't.
@MicrosoftsourceCode He's intensely simplifying it. The majority of what he is saying is metaphor and simplification.
Or are you trolling?
and Edison and Tesla come along a little bit later with a grasp of maxwell's work and invent absolutely life-changing inventions!
From stars we came, to stars we shall return.
Kahn Academy brought me here too.
Feynman was the greatest of all time. Period. ^v^ listening to Feynman is like consolidating the intelligence of the greatest minds in human history. He’s Probably more intelligent than an alien race which may or may not be out there ;)
What he is doing at the beginning is defamiliarisation,we look at things everyday and take them for granted but if we take a closer look at the processes of nature everything seems the more amazing!
Then why are transformers required? Cables cause loss of power in transmission.
And it would be so inefficient too. Nothing beats electricity in efficiency at long distances. That is a fact.
enlightening...
This reminds me of my grandfather..
Eh? Kese?
Me too!
nar, electric forces are well known. Electric forces I think just come from excess proton charges or excess electron charges in a given space. I think dark energy can exist without having any protons or electrons in a given space. I don't think the source of dark energy is hardly known at all yet
awesome
awesomeeee
He sounds like my brain when: letting me know anything .when ,I wonder.
practically it is not electrons what hits the microphone..
Who is cooler than R.P. Feynman?
This blew my fucking mind!
Great
Therefore, if you want to get 500 horsepower from a mechanical source, as an example, that is say over 30 miles away, then you would be better off to turn that mechanical power into electrical power and then back into mechanical power with an electric motor that is 30 miles away from the source. To do this same method with mechanical means would lead to major losses and high maintenance costs!!!
Thank you Khan academy..🤝