Physicist Richard Feynman thinks more about the ‘jiggling’ of atoms, and about rubber bands and how they ‘work’… From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’ (1983). You can now watch higher quality versions of some of these episodes at www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/
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@enHanzable Couldn’t agree more. Kaku’s a feckin’ nobhead. Anyone see him in that The Secret video?
You’re a fine man, Richard.
That’s right. I said it.
ChristopherJSykes Rocks !!!
“The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at it right”. . . . this man is brilliant !
my balls are jiggling too
well put enhanzable
Thank you for sharing this. What an amazing individual with an incredible ability to explain. What a shame he has passed on.
Were you a student of his? What science did you study or major? What are your views of the cosmos?
I personally have a problem whenever someone tries to predict what will happen in the future; too many variables involved to get it accurate. Red flags also come up when I hear him lecture about an inch-long Theory that would explain everything in the Universe and M-Universe.
In short I may not agree with Michio Kaku but I still respect him in the same way Sergei Eisenstein respected D. W. Griffith.
@ravin. kaku is so far removed from reality he only makes sense to that same crowd. they think not understanding him is part of what makes him so unbelievably awesome. they just assume that at least he himself is in total control of facts and the future of science, because he has the same haircut as einstein. he’s a braindead poser who needs to be put out of his misery.
@ravin. lol you should try talking to his students some time, they call him a self-centered, moody asshole wasting time forcing them to watch all his broadcasts/interviews and buy his books which are outside the curriculum. “even einstein”? you realize einstein wasted the latter HALF of his life fighting against science and progress (quantum mechanics)? by the time of his death, nobody took him seriously except the ignorant masses who bought into whatever the media wanted to present him as.
@enHanzable Lot’s do, even students of his. But he argues that String theory is the next paradigm shift in science and the viewing of our universe. I admit String field theory and his goal to have a Theory of Everything is pretty jarring, however he doesn’t pull this stuff out of his ass and he even said that the Theory of Everything can also be a Theory of Nothing and we won’t know until we solve the equation that even Einstein was trying to solve before he died.
@ enhanzable , sad how you call michio kaku a “retarted dumbfuck”. to even use that term to describe someone who is so visionary and knowledgable really shows who the “retarted dumfuck” is. how many years of school does it take to become a “retarted dumbfuck”? as many as uve been in school?
What’s wonderful about Feynman is that when he says something like “If you heat a rubber band, it’ll pull more strongly” you know that he’s *actually done the experiment at some point* no matter how simple it seems to be.
I think that’s one reason he’s was so able to put physics ideas in simple, everyday terms: because he always remembered the questions and observations that impelled him into physics in the first place, and he never lost his fascination with them.
Hahaha! Well spotted!
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It’s tragic we don’t have people like Feynman around anymore. The job of making physics interesting for the general population is left in the hands of retarded dumbfucks like Michio Kaku, who does nothing but getting cocaine-high on the publicity of lies, ridiculous exaggerations and incoherent, self-contradicting technological fantasies, to the point of delusions of grandeur. If only someone in the field would speak out about this, the coming generation takes him seriously because of his Ph. D.
NERD!
Oh, just saw the date in the description, never mind.
Was this interview done before or after the Challenger inquiry?
strings are a billion times smaller than atoms!
hhahahahhaha. I love at 1:09 you hear one of their small intestine grumble. hahahhaha
Sigh. Let me explain myself here. He is certainly not talking about String Theory. I merely pointed out that the idea of the world being a “dynamic mess of jiggling things” could have well been one of those that *led* to String Theory being formulated since it is, in essence vibrating strings combining to form the particles.
So yes, he is not directly or indirectly talking about String theory. The statement I made was in hindsight and describes a simplistic String Theory rather well. Allegory.
Don’t make statements you clearly haven’t researched, people might believe you.
No, you are missing the point. Neither is an abstraction, but an explanation of what is really going on. The “dynamic mess of jiggling things” he talks about has absolutely nothing in common with any aspect of string theory, which is actually two or three layers in magnitude smaller than normal atoms.
And yet, String Theory is but one abstraction away from what he’s saying. What is String Theory, really but “a dynamic mess of jiggling things”, (a muti-dimensional mess at that), that twist and turn and vibrate to form the fundamental particles and indeed, the world?