I'd change the title on this. Five times Dirac delivered epic burns

@Carl-Gauss

2 ай бұрын

What was the original one?

Greatest introvert in history.

@Hichem90

Жыл бұрын

Introvert guys are the most brilliant ones.

@mm__1659

10 ай бұрын

​@@Hichem90 except Richard Feynman.....he was an extrovert

@terencemeikle534

9 ай бұрын

Apparently, Dirac lightened up some when he moved to Florida in his later years.

@josephbieberly8624

5 ай бұрын

Isaac Newton wins that title by a light year.

@vinniepeterss

2 ай бұрын

😂

I've always loved that picture of Dirac and Feynman in the garden. It looks like Dirac is literally backing away from the stream of Feynman's talk, but winds up trapped by a big flower pot.

A physics prof of mine who was at Florida State as a graduate student when Dirac was there told me a story about him. Dirac would often attend seminars and developed a reputation for falling asleep during the lecture, or at least seeming to. He would suddenly sometimes come to life and make a relevant remark or ask a question. One day a young visiting physicist was giving a presentation and was nervous about Dirac being in the audience. He got even more shaken when Dirac seemed to fall asleep. So much so that he struggled badly with the formula derivation he was doing on the board from memory. He had to go back and make many corrections. At the end, as time was running out, he had the right answer but the wrong sign. He apologized to the audience saying "I must have made a sign error somewhere in there." Dirac suddenly opened his eyes and said "Or an odd number of them, anyway."

I had heard, more than once, that when Dirac said _"I have an equation_ [named after him] _do you have one?",_ it was to someone seated next to him at a banquet, and he'd asked in an attempt to be conversational. I prefer that version.

Paul Dirac is for sure one of the greatest theoretical physicist of all time

@wondersofphysics

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely.

@davidnewman8629

Жыл бұрын

Feynman's hero

@pauldirac808

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome .

@beryllium1932

Жыл бұрын

The

@mathoph26

8 ай бұрын

First rank physicist with Newton.

Dirac is highly underrated; unfairly unrecognized

@asterixx6878

5 ай бұрын

That's a typical youtube comment. Dirac is neither underrated nor unrecognized amongst people who are interested in physics.

@aman_sp03

2 ай бұрын

From dirac, the actual physics starts

@grahamblack1961

18 күн бұрын

Maybe he's underrated down the local bar, but amongst anyone who knows anything about physics he's up there with Einstein.

@MrLenoir99

17 күн бұрын

Underrated by who? I have heard and read a number of physicists state unequivocally that he is one of the two or possibly three greatest of the 20th century.

one time at an Oxford university dinner someone asked Dirac where he was going on his summer holidays. Dirac was silent for an hour and then asked the man, why do you want to know where I'm going on my summer holidays?

His responses made perfect sense each time. He apparently was the original Sheldon (and it's the others in the BBT I laugh about).

This was a golden era, late 1800’s early 1900’s. So many great minds. Of course there were other before and since, but if I could pick my physics dream team, 80% of it would come from that period.

@douglasstrother6584

Жыл бұрын

Arnold Sommerfeld would definitely be on that list.

@andsalomoni

Жыл бұрын

An era in which fundamental physics was still in the hands of the individuals. Today it is in the hands of organizations of multi-billion dollars collider makers.

@jjeherrera

Жыл бұрын

Dirac himself defined it: "Those were the days in which a second rate physicist could do a first rate work, as opposite to what happens nowadays, when a first rate physicist finds it hard to do a second rate work."

@larrylucid5502

Жыл бұрын

Some say that the age of the genius is over. There is too much 'computational power' and knowledge that no individual can bring new discoveries on his own.

@erawanpencil

8 ай бұрын

@@larrylucid5502 Physics kind of got what it deserved in this regard, after centuries of dismissing anything that wasn't computational as irrelevant. My hunch is that it will get more interesting after a few more generations pass, after the mystique of equations, strings, and 'genius' becomes blasé. Hopefully something on the frontiers of neuroscience and psychedelics.

How do you know they're nice,he sure made perfect logical sense on that occasion without doubt.

Evidently Dirac missed his calling as a comedy writer on Saturday Night Live.

There was a renowned physicist or mathematician that while attending one of his lectures remarked that Dirac didn't notice how difficult to follow his equations was. Another time, someone entered the room where Dirac was working and exclaimed "nice weather!" to which Dirac calmly raised from his chair, walked to the window and said "Yes". The anectode that, probably told by Gamow when they set an experiment to see why the guy with the white hat always seemed to beat the black hat guy in cowboy movies, although it could involve Dirac it was probably about another very literal scientist.

All of these guys are my heroes. Each so brilliant, yet each so different.

Dirac´s response to Oppenheimer concerning poetry and physics was a brilliant observation. Oppenheimer _should_ have responded likewise, and further asserted that he had answered his own question. Presumably, in the brief _caesura_ that ensued, Oppenheimer could have effected his getaway.

Dirac's description of poetry is poetry itself. He just did not understand that it was his attitude toward physics which was poetic enough to begin with, so that he had no need to be reminded by nonsense of the possibility of profundity beyond complete understanding. The need that most of us have for poetry is to be reminded that certainty is nonsense in any human context.

@Elvisism

4 ай бұрын

I wish I might see life through this lens one day

When Dirac spoke, he sounded like a textbook, such was the clarity of his thoughts.

@wondersofphysics

Жыл бұрын

true

@salamalmudarris5032

9 ай бұрын

I think he was applying what he was taught at school ( never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it) 😊

LOL, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle of dancing.

Well i sure have a diagram Richard Feynman

@bobtimster62

Жыл бұрын

Good one.

Bohr likely knew how to complete his thought but didn’t know the best way to phrase it. Dirac was very literal

@dougr.2398

5 ай бұрын

And by the way, I heard Dirac speak at Yale in 1971-2 semester

The Sigma of Physics 😎

"The reason why the single photon does or does not go through the polarizing filter cannot be investigated by experiment, and must be regarded as outside the domain of science". [P.A.M. Dirac, "The Principles of quantum Mechanics"]

Great work buddy🙂

Could you tell us how he came up with THE POSITION EQUATION ? Greetings.

Good job.

I have an equation; do you have an equation?

Dirac flexed on Feynman

Dirac makes me think of Sheldon Cooper.

@pauldirac808

Жыл бұрын

He’s not as funny as me and he doesn’t know shit about symmetry also I don’t have a twin sister .

Is that Ettore Majorana seated directly behind Dirac?

Dirac's comment about poetry are remarkably simplistic.

“They changed their guacamole from $1.50 to $1.80. So I'II never again get guacamole. It's not about the guacamole itself I just don't want to let them win." - Paul Dirac

If a move about Dirac will be made, the actor should be David Tennant from Around the World in 80 Days

@pauldirac808

Жыл бұрын

I would prefer David Niven but seeing as he is dead my next choice would be Brad Pitt .

Incredible truths!

This was delightful. I'm very right-brained and fathom little of physics, maths, etc: I only discovered Dirac from some of his remarks regarding other things. In my next incarnation, I'll ask to return with greater abilities that I might better understand Prof. Dirac's profession.

A friend of mine looked similar to young Dirac. Its hilarious to think about it 😂😂

3:00 For sure That would be some form of Schrodinger equation

I think the "I have an equation" comment was snarky. He was essentially saying "I have an equation named after me, you have a diagram". Dirac was never particularly impressed with Feynman's QED, he didn't think it was elegant and regarded it more as a bunch of mathematical tricks to 'sweep the infinities under the carpet' as Feynman himself put it.

SUGGESTED TITLE 5 times Paul Dirac delivered regular retorts

I think that Einstein even thought that Dirac was smarter than he was. My all-time genius was Clerk-Maxwell. I can't even imagine a smarter human ever walked the earth. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

good!

My hero after Newton

@pauldirac808

Жыл бұрын

My hero is me after Einstein .

@RamanujanPi

Жыл бұрын

@@pauldirac808 💐💐

@pauldirac808

Жыл бұрын

@@RamanujanPi cool name brother 👍

Actually, Feynman could have replied « I have an infinite number of them! » and he would have been speaking nothing except the truth

This is where the idea for 'Sheldon Cooper' came from.

@RamanujanPi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes yes you are right he like me 😍

@aniruddhasenapati184

Жыл бұрын

Sheldon Cooper is 141423787878 words per minute unlike Dirac's 1 word per minute

What if Dirac was the Bill Burr of Physics?? Would Einstein be the Bob Ross of Physics?

3:50 It is kind of funny that Feynman is one of the very few physicists whose accomplishments are actually in the same league as Diracs

I love Dirac! I say the same types of things and react the same sometimes. 😂

He also enjoyed Playboy magazine. Sent to him by Dick Feynman.

@pauldirac808

Жыл бұрын

I only enjoyed the articles . My wife ripped out the other pages . Remember we’re British stiff upper lip old boy .

@drbonesshow1

Жыл бұрын

@@pauldirac808 No other stiffs?

I read all when i. Was a engineer

Paul Dirac the greatest physicist no one has heard of. A brilliant man

@alessandroc.4543

9 ай бұрын

For physics students and physicists he's one of the most well known

@davidpalin1790

9 ай бұрын

@alessandroc.4543 he had a brilliant mind! Didn't like people though 😕 I know how he feels

Podia colocar legendas em português

@Joao456Zamper

Жыл бұрын

Usa a tradução automática, deve ser suficiente.

This is word for word from his Wikipedia page. I know this because it was a very interesting read!

It was the student asking about an equation that set me off 😂

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

But the student didn’t ask!

0:22 should have been on the voyager disk to represent britain

😃😃 what a great man!

@wondersofphysics

Жыл бұрын

indeed

I LOVE PHYSICS - GREAT FUNNY MORSELS- THANKS

Dirac

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@HenryCasillas

9 ай бұрын

🌻

His best work , About Dirac sea is out standing.

This was more jokes than I thought it would be

Dr. Sheldon Cooper

I'd read the first four before.

Dirac was a Vulcan. 😀

Dirac. Is that not some Dr. Who villain?

Very simple, in today's term he would be diagnosed with Asperger, Sheldon Copper style

My kind of guy. But I like Feynman also.

This is read verbatim from Wikipedia

Quantum cinematic universe.

So dark the con of governments.

I enjoyed his talkative wife.

The only physicist I can relate to although I am not as smart as him.

@anaccount8474

Жыл бұрын

If you were as smart as him you wouldn't be posting comments on youtube.

Werner is pronounced "Verner..."

Think it was Dirac, after reviewing someones work with great displeasure said - This isn't even wrong.

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

That has been said by other physicists.

I can't hear that computer-generated voice without thinking it's trying to sell me something that is clearly bullshit. Am I alone in that?

How do you know before that the girls are nice 😂😂😂😂😂

At the time 19s. People do study regardless of own intelligence 😢

Not sure about hilarious, don't quit your day job as one of the most amazing minds ever.

Dirac clearly had Aspergers.

Did he have Aspergers Syndrome?

@terencemeikle534

9 ай бұрын

Very possibly. It seems that Feynman may well have had it too, but that it manifested in the two men in opposite ways.

Sounds like he had some degree of autism as they have a tendency to take statements at face value

Asperger's

The WONDERS of physics endered 50 years ago. Physics as any physics enthusiast will know is stuck in a quagmire unable to proceed beyond the standard model.

@andsalomoni

Жыл бұрын

They just have to stop building monstrous colliders, and start searching for new ideas again.

I never considered Feynman a good physicist.

@simonkim8646

Жыл бұрын

There's still time, you can do it!

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

He was a brilliant physicist who had a great ability to explain things to people of ordinary intelligence.

I think his snarky comment at Feynman meant I have an equation, you have a diagram. Equation trump diagram.

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think he was being snarky. He was not a conversationalist.

@anaccount8474

Жыл бұрын

@@GH-oi2jf Dirac was totally unimpressed by Feynman and he was dismissive of the QED work done by Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonago. He regarded it is mathematically ugly and little more than a patch on the mathematical problems of his own quantum field theory.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

lmao

Dirac was almost certainly on the Autism spectrum, that is why he struggled with social cues.

Maxwell wrote poetry. It was awful

@douglasstrother6584

Жыл бұрын

Whimsical

@GH-oi2jf

Жыл бұрын

I just read some of Maxwell’s poetry. He was a skilled poet.

It us too fast to me So I understand nothing. Why physics teils New and poetry not. Poetry of mine: Inertia he did Not put in question: ni Einstein nor Feynman. I put it in question, so I am a blame man. Inertia one can Not define. Thats why I all them blame.

@RamanujanPi

Жыл бұрын

How do you know before that the girls are nice 😂😂😂😂😂

@Caturiya

Жыл бұрын

@@RamanujanPi Curls of Grace are so nice. Love makes all nice. Which does not mean that there is a heartfull accordance . But here one speak on PHYSICS. One likes to make me an idiot everywhere. Better I do no more speak..

@Caturiya

Жыл бұрын

@@RamanujanPi PHSIK HIER

Not quite hilarious, though

Such a shame that he was regarded as strange, he was probably highly autistic and desperately wanted to talk, who knows.

I love this! I bother almost everyone i know with these same weird philosophical/psychological ideas, asking questions and offending people..... I bet Paul Dirac took acid/shrooms/salvia at some point, or lots of meditation, it's like it unlocks this area of your brain that allows you to think outside the box that being said, a few of these from Paul are a little out there

@shivammishra1720

2 жыл бұрын

"I bet Paul Dirac took acid/shrooms/salvia at some point, or lots of meditation, it's like it unlocks this area of your brain that allows you to think outside the box". Bare assertion fallacy. How do you know he took these things? There is no evidence for this assertion of yours.

@topdog5252

Жыл бұрын

@@shivammishra1720 it makes some sense to me that it could be possible in context of what I’ve heard of very rationalist less open and empathetic people like Dirac doing psychedelics and opening their experience to other perspectives. In a lecture on Dirac here on Yt it said he started enjoying classical music and easing up his character a bit more in his older years. To be clear I have no clue if he ever did psychedelics or meditation but anything is possible, and I’ve heard of what I think the original commenter was alluding to before. My favourite KZreadr is Steven Mark Ryan (Solving the Money Problem) and he is on the autism spectrum and naturally cares a lot about truth and physics and is very rational. He has reported immense personal value from both psychedelics and meditation (but particularly psychedelics). I think he reported after taking LSD several times, great gains in feeling empathy and more emotion in social interaction, such that lots of friends and family noticed a change and asked him. He was simply saying there were experiences that changed him for the better and opened him to places he didn’t know had value. I’m expressing this horribly, but this is just my thoughts that I do sort of get how one might think Dirac did psychedelics or meditation and personally gained from them.

@dmitryshusterman9494

Жыл бұрын

More like he was a bit autistic

a fake voice; please put a human to read, even if it doesn't sound good to you

HILARIOUS???? That's clickbait!!!! Dirac was a great mathematician and physicist - NOT a comedian!

@atharvdawolf398

Жыл бұрын

No bro I just click random... after read your comment I wonder what was the thumbnail and title 😂

I often say a similarly negative thing about poetry. I say a writer of prose is like an architect who designs a house, and every part of the design serves a logical purpose, while a poet is like a modern artist, who hits a canvas with a big splat of paint and then wants praise for his intellect. Also, none of these things are hilarious. They're just true and relevant statements. Like that first one, he simply pointed out the flaw in the previous statement.