An old clip but I wanted to post something since apparently it's my birthday :-).
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 9:44, Reply)
of course Feynman, being a genius, doesn't get upset and instead shows how pointless the question itself is, by elegantly expressing the fundamental truth of the matter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
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(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 9:59, Reply)
the first time i watched this i thought he was prevaricating to avoid having to answer the question but his answer was so much richer than that
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:25, Reply)
I've got a lot of respect for Brian Cox, but I'm going to force my kids to watch Feynman once they're old enough.
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:44, Reply)
Comparing the two videos, Feynman makes the D-Ream keyboard player look like a cunt
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 12:10, Reply)
The first half of 'Why does e equal mc squared?' is easily the best popular science I have ever read. Cox breaks down relativity to it's basics in an amazingly concise way over just a hundred or so pages. I think he has an amazing skill for explaining things.
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 12:22, Reply)
Pisses all over Dawkins who I suppose fills this 'public scientist' role these days.
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:33, Reply)
And anything else you can find too.
If anyone ever brings out the art vs science debate, just show them this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:49, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDndEzmAZE
response from the artist friend that he mentions
(, Sat 10 Dec 2016, 9:16, Reply)
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:54, Reply)
We've got no-one.
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 11:20, Reply)
"I want to know what a ripple in space time would mean to this sandwich"
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:04, Reply)
"you're that brainbox off the telly arent you..."
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 10:19, Reply)
"The producer is asking BRILLIANT questions - questions which have Cox floundering. This is the state of bullshit mathematical physics today. It's time the maths physicists got back to REAL physics instead of scribbling on the blackboard with chalk. Clearly they've learned nothing from Ptolemy vs Copernicus!"
"Oh Einstein tried to write a paper on this. The effects of gravity travel at the speed of light. It failed publication.
For gravity to be a "wave" it needs to have a velocity. Velocity is distance over time. Forgetting the fact gravity IS time.
The strength of time dilation at low levels is near nothing."
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 11:17, Reply)
If you try to think of it as analogous to waves on an ocean you'll never understand it.
Also: Caaaaandles!!!!
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 12:35, Reply)
to say something like "but what about the fact they make all our laws?" "SOVEREIGNTY!"
(, Fri 9 Dec 2016, 12:40, Reply)