In 1975, I was attending UCSB but, sadly, at the time I'd never heard of Richard Feynman. I was blandly unaware of his lecture. But my incredible roommate -- the late William Armbruster -- knew who he was. And William was most certainly attending that lecture, because he and a buddy were the guys who made THIS recording! William owned a high-end reel-to-reel ReVox, and was the guy who normally recorded the Santa Barbara Symphony's performances. Periodically they also recorded lecturers in UCSB's enormous Campbell Hall on behalf of the Lectures Program. As usual, he and his friend had gone early, hung the microphone(s), and then camped out in a control booth with the ReVox running. The next day he mentioned it to me, asked if I'd gone, and was shocked when I admitted I knew nothing of it. Immediately he pulled out the ReVox and new recording -- THIS recording -- and played it to me. I was transfixed, and consequently deeply regretful about having missed seeing it live. (As a student I could have attended for free, of course). A day or so later, William handed the tape over to the Lectures program people, and I've often wondered in the intervening years what happened to it (and, actually, to ALL the recordings they made of the exceptional people who came to lecture). Apparently they've been properly archived by the UCSB library, and finally somebody ("The Quadmire") has taken time to bring the long version to the world via KZread. So: thank you, The Quadmire, much appreciated!

@parrogakaparadise9477

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing story.

@ARBB1

Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@andysPARK

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you got to hear it again.

@Prototheria

Жыл бұрын

Comments like yours are what make KZread worth all the nonsense. It's remarkable that, after such a long time, how you and this recording were reunited, presumably, by chance. I've seen other similar encounters on here- like an old friend of an obscure blues artist commenting on a video of said blues artist someone else uploaded, and then the artist replying to that long-lost friend. A few years ago I had a personal encounter with a much younger me spotted in the audience of a concert I went to back in the mid 90's at a small club in Vermont. I wonder if you happen to know Robery Mudry; he was at the lecture and is another commenter on this video. What amazingly intricate, interwoven paths we lead.

@jovanjanjic9029

Жыл бұрын

I'm so grateful that they made this golden recording. It means so much to me.

This is a priceless historical document. Can you imagine having Isaac Newton on tape going, "Now when I first went up to Cambridge..."

@michaelstone7546

3 жыл бұрын

Try Bertrand Russell 's Autobiography, and Newton's history: inventing and constructing toys at Cambridge during the plague

@matthewnewton8812

2 жыл бұрын

It’s unreal.

@jonnekallu1627

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe "I never liked apples.."

@bop1886

Жыл бұрын

Ah not really the same but ok

@PronatorTendon

Жыл бұрын

@@bop1886 True, Feynman was an order of magnitude more rational than Newton, who fallaciously invoked his 'god of the gaps' when he encountered the limitations of his observational capacity

Not only was he a physics genius, his comedic timing is perfect.

@capoeirnesto

10 ай бұрын

RIGHT?

@wyskass861

10 ай бұрын

He might be the one guy I'd choose to have a drink and conversation with if given a choice to go back in time for such an opportunity.

@Bebtelovimab

9 ай бұрын

It would have been so great if Feynman had structured his lecture so that as it progresses, he systematically reverses each and every claim he made at the beginning, finally revealing that it was he himself who personally ran the entire Los Alamos project, from the very top.

@dpsamu2000

9 ай бұрын

@@Bebtelovimab Consider this. He was constantly pushing the limits of security, breaking into safes, and spreading it around at mass meetings that security was flawed. The Russian spy attached himself to Feynman, and who knows what Feynman told him about how to circumvent security. Feynman says he was not a top man in The Manhattan Project but he may have innocently been the top man in the Russian nuclear program.

@kerzytibok3211

9 ай бұрын

Feynman reminds me of lot of Neil deGrasse Tyson in personality --- except that Feynman could actually do cutting edge physics research and Neil can't

All the while he worked at Los Alamos he had to watch his young bride suffer and eventually wilt away at age 25. I have heard of his love letters to her. A poet. A genius. And also an wonderful sense of story-telling humour..

@allenclark4235

8 ай бұрын

Andrew Huberman read one of the letters on his pod cast about grief. It is the most beautiful expression of love I have ever heard. Having heard him speak and the way his mind works made it that much more beautiful. I've revisited it many times.

@thisnicklldo

8 ай бұрын

And the thing is, she was so close to being cured. My father had TB, at the same time - the progress of his was slower (else I wouldn't be here). At the end of the 40's/ right at the start of the 50's he was given streptomycin, which cured it, though by then he had lost one whole lung and one lobe of another. If she could have hung on for another 5 years, the cure was round the corner. True of so many of course, TB was a terrible scourge, thank god for antibiotics.

What I get from listening to Feynman is his clarity of thought. There is no trash in his speech, he has edited out everything not pertaining to a specific objective. What a fun person to listen to. Imagine being his friend? What an elite group of people!

@eugenemiya4935

10 ай бұрын

The editing was done by Ralph Leighton. Feynman does not speak like the printed text. A speaker version reading the text (audio book) exists, but it's dull and boring.

@Orgakoyd

9 ай бұрын

@@eugenemiya4935 Can I ask what you mean by “does not speak like the printed text”? What text?

@eugenemiya4935

9 ай бұрын

@@Orgakoyd Feynman did not do the editing. Ralph Leighton did the editing. Feynman hated writing and editing. You can read an example of Feynman's "bad" English in Chris Sykes' biography of Feynman No Ordinary Genius. There, a writer (English) commented that Feynman could not construct a sentence. The audio recording early on pointed out Feynman had not reached any of the funny bits. That text was not not included as were other bits which are on the audio recording. This writer complained (likely not a physicist), asking the question who is this guy? Others complained Feynman's speaking style was like a New York cabbie. The English (people), and majors, didn't care for his speaking "style".

He's as funny naturally as most stand-up comedians.

@dylangabriel2703

6 ай бұрын

He’s funnier lol

What an absolute gift to humanity was Richard Feynman. Beyond thrilled that his words were recorded!

@jfan4reva

Жыл бұрын

I first heard of Richard Feynman on the program Nova ('The Last Journey of a Genius') after his death. He was just a delight to listen to, regardless of what he was talking about. He also had my Dad's penchant for popping overinflated egos. Feynman never considered himself a genius. He only admitted to being smarter than average when he was nearing his death, and then only grudgingly. He seemed like such a great guy to hang out with. He always looked (on video) like he had this really funny story that he wanted to tell to you. Highly recommend his autobiographies "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman" (growing up and college) and "What Do You Care What People Think" (Los Alamos.)

@lacyhart2043

7 ай бұрын

He is the great teacher

That valve story is honestly one of the funniest stories I've heard in a long time. Really great guy, that part was actually a really good example of humility from a man like him turning into such a turn of events.

@RyFi1978

9 ай бұрын

Yup, it was great.

Every piece of recording of Feynman in pure gold.

Feynman was one of the most intelligent people to have ever lived and he never bragged about that fact, however if you listened to him or talked with him it was instantly obvious to you and therefore he didn't "need" to brag about it. So far I have probably listened to at least 20 hrs. of him speaking about various subjects on KZread. I cannot get enough of this incredible human. RIP

@lucilla888

Жыл бұрын

i agree

@vibratingstring

Жыл бұрын

@@lucilla888 For years I only knew him in print. I'd read the Feynman Lectures in college whenever I couldn't make sense of the professor. I read, "surely you're joking..." and then alomg came youtube. Hearing him -- wow! But the amazing thing is how well the transcription was captured in "Surely you're joking..."

@sonus289

9 ай бұрын

man ,couldn't agree more. He must have drove his peers nuts

@kerzytibok3211

9 ай бұрын

I always find it funny how the smartest people in the world like Feynman and Einstein thought they were "average" intelligence but the dumbest and most ignorant people like Commie Trump always feel a need to brag about how smart they think they are --- such a weird paradox in human behavior

@carlossaraiva8213

8 ай бұрын

It seems that Feynman was very aware of how intelligent he was but his attitude was to laugh about it and even create a lot of self-deprecating humour about it. Strange as this might sound but dometimes being very clever csn make your life difficult or it can make your like look absurd and you find yourself in a lot of absurd situations, like how sometimes you are the only sane man in the room. And that is a great source of material gor humour. I think Feynman mansged to find the funny side of even the absurt of being often the smartest man in the room.

I've been watching youtube videos all day at 1.5x speed, but I had to go back to 1.0x for this one. Despite the casual tone, Mr. Feynman doesn't speak a single unnecessary word and any pause he makes is just enough to let the meaning sink in.

This is not a lecture…this is a standup special 😂 Great material. Great guy.

@dylangabriel2703

6 ай бұрын

I swear if all teachers were like this, children would be so interested in learning. And realise that it is actually fun.

This guy is simply next level. He's one of the most impressive and fascinating people to ever live, I think.

@Anonymous-by5jp

8 ай бұрын

Indeed, he was a real gem

Everybody talks about how amazing Carl Sagan was as a science communicator but part of me thinks Richard Feynman was even better. I could listen to him talk all day.

I have such fond memories of reading Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman when I was in school. Hearing essentially the same book narrated by the man himself is beyond fantastic. We need more Feynmans.

@OverlandOne

3 жыл бұрын

We have them but now they have to lie and claim they believe in the farce of global warming to receive any funding or get hired by a "prestigious" university, so all of the ones with integrity just say: "No thanks", and we never hear about them once they have been suppressed.

@treesandgeeking

3 жыл бұрын

@@OverlandOne 🙄

@OverlandOne

2 жыл бұрын

@@AmusingYeti Wow, I almost laughed at your ignorance. The fact that the only retort you could summon was a sad attempt to insult me must be really embarrassing for you. Maybe when you grow up you will understand the subject matter a lot better? Perhaps you might take a remedial science class? Then you might learn why trying to predict anything with a 200 year sample of weather conditions out of the 4.2 billion years the earth has been around is beyond a joke and not science at all. It is statistically a ZERO sample size and any "model" based on this is total crap.

@thetrickster9885

2 жыл бұрын

We used to have them too but they got rid of that book because in that book feynman calls some women bitches (as a joke ofc) but those libtards removed it because they thought it may have to do something with misogyny. I am glad that I purchased 4 books for me and my brother's before they got out

@Ryan-ce1oc

2 жыл бұрын

@@OverlandOne If global warming isn't real then where is the heat coming from. It's not coming from the sun because solar activity decreased over the last century. The atmosphere is trapping the heat, and the only thing that has increased in the atmosphere is CO2 produced by humans. See Venus for details on the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Brilliant storyteller and comedic genius, who just happens to be a Physicist and major force on the Los Alamos project. God I love the way he can cleanly explain such complicated eng/science topics.

@imeprezime1285

9 ай бұрын

They just needed one comedian/clown there. It happened to be Feynman. Not a major force, he wasn't atomic physicist at all.

His blueprint story is legendary.

@johnmaynard9722

4 жыл бұрын

It is called faking it until you find out what you need to know!! It is a good skill to have until it doesn't work!! :)

Sense of humor is the best measure of someone's intelligence! Thanks for sharing the lecture!

This is my favorite video on KZread. I don't know how many times I've listened to it on long car rides.

@inthefade

4 жыл бұрын

I just finished reading "Surely you Must be Joking, Mr. Feynman", which has this talk adapted as a chapter. I already miss reading it, so I've been listening to his lectures again. What a wonderful man!

@jamesbentonticer4706

4 жыл бұрын

@@inthefade a great book!

@Feistycadaver

4 жыл бұрын

Likewise brother

@pereraddison932

3 жыл бұрын

@@Feistycadaver Aend, an X stenographic reveal under Oppy, with the crossed legs of his directors chair... "nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along"

@xyzct

3 жыл бұрын

Eric, I'm sure I've listened to it 10 times. I'm listening again right now.

I was fortunate enough in 1970 and 71 to study undergrad physics from textbooks derived from Feynman lectures. I didn't understand until today who he was and the significance of that. What an amazing man! Thanks for posting this talk!

@dakiblabla

9 ай бұрын

This talk is irrelevant to who he was.

@jashayou

9 ай бұрын

@@dakiblabla How so? What are you thinking?

@dakiblabla

9 ай бұрын

@@jashayou Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, and overall. The Los Alamos episode was irrelevant in his life, except that he met other great physicists, like Bethe, and Fermi and Bohr. He was a grad student. His main work happened later. Look at what he got the Nobel prize for. You cannot really conclude from this video why he was so great.

@jashayou

9 ай бұрын

@@dakiblabla Thanks.

@dakiblabla

9 ай бұрын

@@jashayou Feynman's autobiographies "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman" and "What do you care what other people think" are a hoot. And if you ever happen to be in Pasadena, they preserved his office in Caltech. And if you still remember some physics, his books "Six easy pieces" and "Six not so easy pieces" are great too.

0:00 intro 1:52 Richard Feynman 3:17 Richard Feynman at Princeton 5:48 Richard Feynman at Princeton meets great men ( Richard learns that great men remember and argue fast) 7:26 Group told to start in New Mexico to make the Bomb 9:21 Los Alimos before it was ready 10:30 Richard Feynman: Train Paranoia 11:20 Richard Feynman: Indian Caves 12:13 Richard Feynman: Know your place 13:54 Richard Feynman: Finds luck, pushing Bethe 14:50 Richard Feynman: Playing with numbers. Hans Bethe, teaches Little Richard math 17:00 Richard Feynman: Dormitories and makeup, plus the Town counsel 22:25 Richard Feynman: Censorship 30:48 Richard Feynman: Knowing the System 32:34 Richard Feynman: Cracks the Cab safes 34:09 Richard Feynman: Mr Teller's Drawer 35:00 Richard Feynman: Disappointing the audience. 35:10 Richard Feynman: The safety of Oak ridge. Separating Isotopes of Uranium 238 and 236, to the latter 235, (the boom one.) with Uranium nitrate purified 37:23 Richard Feynman: The safety of Oak ridge. Neutrons. 38:00 Scientific Groups & Military Priority's 39:15 Richard Feynman: walking the plant, it's bad. 40:35 Little Richard Says : Los Alimos cannot accept the responsibility for the oak ridge plant. 43:20 Richard Feynman: Valves & Windows. 46:43 Richard Feynman: Los Alimos Calculation machine repairs 49:30 Richard Feynman: Women helped but they needed breaks. 50:18 Richard Feynman: Building new machines, and fixing bent items. 51:35 The Computer disease 53:00 Special engineer detachments, punching holes 56:00 Machine mess, Colour card number mistakes. 58:14 The People Richard Feynman met. Fermi 59:20 Feynman meets John, Von Neumann; "You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in" 1:00:10 Feynman meets Niels Bohr and his son 1:01:45 Feynman Challenges Bohr 1:02:44 The Test explosion. Feynman looks through a Truck windshield (blocks violet light) 1:05:32 William Laurence. What's That! 1:05:50 Plutonium. 1:07:16 After Explosion. Drums and Depression. Q&A 1:09:08 Feynman cracks safes 1:14:07 Feynman cracks safes using Psychology EDIT; correcting mistakes; sorry, Bethe.

@BartAlder

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent job, andy andy. This should be a pinned comment.

@BoB-th8wm

5 жыл бұрын

@@BartAlder Thank you, for your kind words.

@chillphil967

5 жыл бұрын

awesome. thanks

@lawrencenara4181

5 жыл бұрын

Great Job!

@mikestevens8012

5 жыл бұрын

Bravo , this is grande

"It isn't funny yet, I've got lots of better things" he's a brilliant theoretical physicist and a wonderful speaker with an intelligent comedic flare. A true rare breed of human.

R. Feynman wrote a book from his life. I won this book translated to czech in a school competition and it has influenced my life :)

After watching this in 2019 I sought out more. I found evidence that I had unknowingly met him around 1985, and he played a trick on me that lasted 35 years before I solved it. Feynman loved puzzles, and playing intellectual tricks on people. The Caltech campus has a golf course which my dad's house in Monterey Park over looks. When I lived in Los Angeles in 1985 I was a delivery man. While delivering on the streets of LA I would see this van with Feynman diagrams as graffiti all over it. I didn't know what Feynman diagrams were or who Richard Feynman was. I just thought it was just something a collage student did to his van. You know how students will write graffiti with scientific formulas like E=MC2. I was on a delivery on my motorcycle one day, and pulled up behind this van. There was this shabby looking dude there who motioned that he wanted to talk to me. Thought he was a bum looking to bum a cigarette. That was a thing with bums in LA at the time. But if you gave one a cigarette 6 more show up bumming more. I waved him away pointing to the place I was delivering to. He nodded, and withdrew. When I came out he was still there. I mounted my bike but he was upon me before I got away. He asked me if I knew what the diagrams were. I thought it was just an opening gambit that would eventually lead to him bumming a cigarette. I told him I didn't know but thought they were just graffiti like some collage kids do like E=MC2, and that it probably belonged to a student from Caltech which was just 8 blocks up the road within sight from there. He asked if I knew what they mean. I said I don't know. Probably something nuclear but I don't know. He said OK, and didn't ask for a cigarette. A little surprised he didn't but I started up my bike, and rode away. 35 years later I'm looking on the Internet for information about Richard Feynman, and find a picture of him, and the van. It all came back to me. I figure he did that a lot. Hanging around his van asking passers by if they knew what the Feynman diagrams are. I guess kind of a measure of how much the general public knew about them. I may have surprised him that even though I didn't know what they meant I was able to figure out the van belonged to somebody from Caltech. I think he would have liked the fact that 35 years later somebody he played that trick on figured it out.

@BluesBoy-ij2rb

9 ай бұрын

It's a Shame you didn't let your guard down and engaged in a nice conversation with him , who's knows what kind of story you could have told all these years later ???.........but at least you met him , more than most can say !!!!.................................. ERIk

@dpsamu2000

9 ай бұрын

@@BluesBoy-ij2rb It was the hand I was dealt. If I had known then who he was like I know now he probably wouldn't have wanted to talk to me. Just another fanboy. At least this video sent me on a quest to watch his other videos, lectures, and reminded me of the van encounter. From his Auckland lecture on QED I believe I got a grasp of it. Had to watch some parts a couple of times to understand it. I think that's the best one for it. I recommend it. even though it's six 1 hour lectures. Sounds daunting, and a couple times I wanted to say "Driver, I was with you up to there but you made a turn, and I don't know where we are, and I don't even understand the language. ". But I watched again, skipping over what I understood 'til my understanding faltered, and zeroed in on the difficulty was "probability amplitudes". Now I can describe QED applied to the 2 slit experiment in 5 sentences, and how the same rules apply to rainbows on soap bubbles, lenses, and diffraction gratings. Even how they apply to the target plates I machined for the Large Hadron Collider. Which reminds me of an interesting coincidence about the encounter I had with him, and the van. When he asked if I knew what the Feynman diagrams were my words were "...probably something nuclear...". The arrows in Feynman diagrams are probability amplitudes, and the target plates are the heart of the largest, most powerful, most expensive machine ever built which studies nuclear physics. Even solved a problem in the manufacture of the plates that the physicists called the company I worked for to tell them to thank me because I, in effect, increased the power of the LHC 10 times. It was the second time in the 75 year history of the company a customer called to thank the machinist. The other call was also to thank me for work I did on a pump base for a nuclear reactor.

I became familiar with Dr. Feynman as a member of the presidential commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and his demonstration of O-Ring material. like that used in the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster segments and showed that the O-Rings do not return to their shape in cold conditions. Absolutely brilliant demonstration that anyone could understand. I have, over the years, watched videos and listen to his lectures and read his books. A brilliant scientist and he had a fantastic sense of humor and an excellent lecturer.

Rare that a genius has so much charm and is just so funny. I was in a car going to be student at the rca in London. A beautiful day in February 1988. When i heard of his passing. He was a force of nature! A true original human being.

I've listened to this probably over 100 times and it never gets old. I sometimes put this on as I'm going to sleep (which I'm about to do again right now).

@dakiblabla

9 ай бұрын

Nuclear bomb lullaby.

@liquidbraino

9 ай бұрын

​@@dakiblablaLulla-Bye (Japan).

@farmergiles1065

6 ай бұрын

A way to nuke wakefulness when it's critical to get your rest? Or enrichment of slumber to fuel your day? When you need more than a half-life.

I was born in 1961 and now often feel as if I missed so much. Yet because of this I stand with my eyes forward and my shoulders back with great confidence for my grandchildren.

This entire audio clip is amazing. I listened to it in one sitting.

@PlateletRichGel

4 жыл бұрын

It's an easy listen

@geosutube

4 жыл бұрын

demarek I have never heard it before, although I love Feynman’s books, beginning with Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman. I’m saving this for listening again very soon, since some of the audio is a big scratchy.

This is PURE gold! I laughed harder listening to this than I have listening to any stand up comedian in my life. I'm a Manhattan Project history buff anyway, so listening to inside history is fascinating for in the first place. But Feynman's take on it? Holy O' Cow! The BEST! Thank you for posting this. Wish I had found it years ago!

@uscdave1124

Жыл бұрын

The best part is right at the beginning when he goes "what the hell, it's not even funny yet. I've got way more jokes"

I've read one of the books about him, awhile back, so I'm familiar with his background from those. To hear him speak about the project, the math, the people involved is a fascinating look into the mind of a brilliant person being honest and, frankly, himself, when in the company of other men of his caliber, yet singled out by the top minds, to be frank and he didn't realize who, as far as notoriety, he gave it to them straight, no chaser, no pretense, but with so much mischief along the way, it delights to hear him deliver, even, one liners. I often try to watch his videos on YT because he helps you to think...as he did his own children, I believe, and figure things out using science principles and your logic. One frozen rubber ring and a glass of ice water is what he requested for the Challenger commission. Brilliant minds are well worth listening to.

@timhays332

9 ай бұрын

His books are just as insightful and funny. He was a prof my dad when he was getting his Ph.D. I'd never heard his voice - this is priceless. Love it!

When I listen to Feynman I hear my advisor in college. That same NYC area accent. It makes me so happy. Feynman was brilliant in virtually every aspect of his life. What a lecture! You can hear the passion in his voice.

Feynman beats Oppenheimer ANY day on story telling and life story. What a humor and intellect. He influenced me as a teen to study physics and eventually get a PhD. The world lost out when he passed in 1988, from aggressive cancer likely from his time on the MP.

@jgunther3398

9 ай бұрын

i read "surely you're joking..." about the time it came out. it's captivating and hilarious. some physicists seem to think now that he's a showman who refuses to be wrong. people who had interactions with him maybe. the thing i can't figure out is a kid from the boroughs from that time who didn't end up a gangster...

By far, one of the most interesting (and humorous) lectures I've heard to date.

Feynman and Woz have been two of my biggest inspirations--just passing along gratitude. Really enjoyed this talk all these years later. Thanks for the share, great listen!

I’m fairly certain he’s the greatest orator in modern scientific history. It’s impossible for someone who doesn’t like physics or someone who likes physics to listen to this and not hang onto every word he says

"The disease with computers is you play with them." -Richard Feynman

@piyushmakwana4830

7 жыл бұрын

Sean Dafny wow he just predicted 21st century

@seandafny

7 жыл бұрын

+I am NOT a PRO (Piyush) If only he knew how right he was. Or maybe he did know.

@josephcoleman57

6 жыл бұрын

Without my computer l most likely would never have known who Richard Feynman ever was. I've just spent 4 hours reading his Wiki bio and watched about 20 lectures and other videos..Let's not be gloomy lt was a great evening and time well spent

@seandafny

5 жыл бұрын

Joseph Coleman yea he got a lot done with his calculator too. but that was only after he was done playing with it lol probably same with ur situation. Who knows what u were looking at on KZread before or after ur Feynman binge. Maybe even during the time u were watching this, u actually were suppose to be doing something else. Gift and a curse

@u.v.s.5583

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, what do you do when you get a brand new computer? You write a program to compute tables of arctan values, even though you have a perfectly good set of thick books on special functions with all the tables you need.

I was born and raised in Los Alamos in 1975. I love stories about "the city on the hill" as it was called when it was shrouded in mystery. Love the history of my hometown. 😊

The most awe inspiring thing for me is to hear brilliant people speak, and they are so honest an straightforward, and human. I’ve been very fortunate to have worked with some really bright people, since starting in information processing in 1978. There is something unique and special, and when you meet them you know it. This man is one of those people.

This is such a service to humanity like all Richard's talks. Thanks to all involved and thank you Richard.

This is better than many stand up comics.

A pure gem of a talk. An amazing storyteller!

Feynman is my favorite scientist, easily. Love listening to recordings of his lectures and interviews. What an interesting guy

This lecture is always my go too when I’m troubled in life I’ve listened to this countless numerous times it puts me at peace

Wow - what a story teller!

Oh, the irony...Perhaps the best hour long comedy I've ever heard. But the 'comedian' is a brilliant theoretical physicist,and he merely recalled personal experiences. Even to have been one of the censors, let alone a co-worker in his presence, would have been the greatest privilege

LOVE this! He's truly fascinating AND fun to listen to...

The header says Comments 911 - somehow poignant. This IS priceless. I was always told as a kid that Feynman was so special - even in England in the '70s. This is the perfect counterpoint to the Oppenheimer movie and all that stuff. This makes it SO real ans all the more meaningful. Thank You.

9:00 "When they make a moving picture about this", here we are in 2023 a day before "Oppenheimer" is being released.

I can't do math in public (or in private), but I've always been fascinated with physics and physicists. I've read about many things Feynman and others did and discovered. I assumed Feynman was probably just another socially boring genius somewhere way out there on the spectrum but i had never heard him speak before. It's incredible listening to him work a room, funny, personable, self effacing, wow - he's like Mister Entertainment. Bet it was a good time having a beer with him.

This was a fantastic trip to see the world from another point of view in 2023. Thanks Grandpa!

Even though you can't see him you can hear the smile on his face, and the laughter in his throat.

Was glad to see Jack Quaid play Richard Feynman in the motion picture Oppenheimer.

@summerlove7779

9 ай бұрын

Did they portray Feynman properly?

@ericcommarato7727

9 ай бұрын

@@summerlove7779 seeing the picture tomorrow…will let you know.

@AerialFire

9 ай бұрын

@@summerlove7779 I would say not really. We see him in the background a few times, but nothing substantial and I didn't feel his "quirkiness" show at all.

What an amazing, enjoyable, character, I'm sorry that I never heard of him. But I will certainly research this national treasure. What amazing audio on this video.

I’ve listened to this video more times than I can count; so informative and entertaining.

Feynman is one of my favorite persons, just wonderful across the board. He reminds me of the wonderful persons from NYC who I knew in the 50s, smart, funny, witty, insightful, etc. Further evidence that US was much better back then.

@vincentconti3633

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know of his story "Tuva or bust"? check it out. You'll be glad you did!

I loved his story about his mathematician friend who was so good with arithmetic, deriving the cube roots in his head.

@taulant5345

4 жыл бұрын

He was talking about Hans Bethe who was a nuclear physicist. If you want a chuckle google "alpher bethe gamow".

Feynman was such a great comedian! Thank you for this!

The problem with playing tricks on highly intelligent people is that the time it takes for them to realise what exactly has happened from the moment they see something wrong is too short to provide any pleasure.

@meesalikeu

5 жыл бұрын

Wajahat Khan that was thee insight of the whole talk

@taragragg400

5 жыл бұрын

Brazil

@FumbleFinger

5 жыл бұрын

[34:25]

@Loagun

5 жыл бұрын

You don't say....

@hififlipper

4 жыл бұрын

It was Edward Teller, who wasn´t famous to be the fastest speaker at all. His parents thought that he was retarded for a long time. Must have provided Mr. Teller with a lot of pleasure to see other people, who were trying to trick or treat him, recognize only much later that he had already had figured it all out before he had started to speak in the first place.

Brilliant. Thanks for posting this. A great man.

So glad I found your copy so I could hear the last ten minutes. Thanks.

@geosutube

4 жыл бұрын

1skedaddle Yes, the last ten minutes are superb. The entire recording pulled me out of a deep emotional slump, but the last ten were the cherry on the top.

My favourite parts are the blueprints and safe cracking. What a wonderful story teller.

This is incredible. Thank you for sharing it.

This is not just a nice video on KZread, this is a peice of monumental history, and should be treated as such. This a documented peice of human history told through the experiences of one of mankind's greatests minds, a man who has truly revolutionised our sundersranding of the nautral world and the universe.

@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve

Жыл бұрын

"piece."

Love hearing this guys stories

Thank you for posting this. This was exceptionally good

What a find! Thanks for sharing this.

Richard P. Feynman - sorely missed. They don't make him more than once.

This is a fantastic recording. I love Feynman and this really captures the brilliance, humor and incredible personality of the man.

Thanks for putting this together

Props for this. What a joyful man Feynman was..... and yes, one definitely needs to hear the safe-cracking section :)

Saw the movie Oppenheimer. Didn't register in my mind that the character who observed Trinity without wearing the safety goggles inside a truck was him.

@indigohammer5732

9 ай бұрын

He’s the guy with the Bongos

The sounds he makes to describe different situations .. like he is living those moments now.. sounds very humerus...and makes him a great story teller too...

@moegreen3870

9 ай бұрын

yes i noticed that too! talk about eidetic memory!!! WOW!!!!!!!! certainly NOT the man who knew too little lmao xd

This is the best piece on KZread I have encountered to date. Must watch humanity,

Wish i could have enjoyed life as much as he did. What a great character.

By far the best testimony how the things were in Los Alamos during the WW2.

I’ve listened to this speech probably over a 1000 times it’s my go to when i need it

@tf5920

Күн бұрын

Me too. I've listened about 5 times in the last 5 years. So about once a year on average. Amazing talk

I just came across this. What a treat! This guy was a character (and brilliant)...🙂

Man...i can't believe how awesome this video was.

@chrisbaker2784

3 жыл бұрын

I've listened at least 10 times now

Happy 100 year Birthday to Richard Feynman

Thank you for posting this

I have found this video after seeing the film “Oppenheimer” and wanting to know more about what had happened at Los Alamos. Richard Feynman’s presentation is informative and fun. He was a wonderful raconteur and so entertaining.

@matthayward7889

9 ай бұрын

Same here!

@NATIK001

8 ай бұрын

Feynman is legendary, not just for being a great physicist, but also for having a special ability to communicate eloquently, precisely and with great humor. As a physics student I would ravenously consume everything I could find of his, and I strongly recommend looking up Feynman's talks about things beyond the Los Alamos situation and the Manhattan Project as well, it's all worth reading, listening to or watching.

His wife sounded like a marvelous person.

I wish I could take his classes for infinity ♾ 😪 Rip to one of the greatest men who ever lived .

Brilliant! Thanks for the upload! :)

I've always been a big fan of Faynman ever since I read one of his books. My kind of guy!

It was reading Feynman that got me into physics and mathematics. That was 28 years ago. Such a pleasure having this audio to listen to. Thanks uploader.

@conorm2524

5 жыл бұрын

I'm 37. Do you think it's too late to pursue a physics education? The periphery of it fascinates me but I realistically wonder if I have enough brain power to absorb the real details and computations. My cranium is pretty thick, takes longer than most peoples' to get information through there and register!!

@Ryan-we9in

5 жыл бұрын

Conor M It’s never too late. It’s hard to know in the beginning how far you’ll go in the subject but even a few years of study, if you really enjoy it, will be richly rewarding.

@wiseacredave

5 жыл бұрын

@@conorm2524 If you're really interested in Physics, you can do it. A physics degree will be invaluable in so many life adventures because it changes the way you think and really teaches you how to solve problems---and not just scientific problems. At age 62, my physics degree has been invaluable. In fact, this very day I'm working on a rather elementary (I think) physics problem that, based on my research, has never been studied before. Good luck with your studies!

@BartAlder

5 жыл бұрын

@@conorm2524 As others have said, no it is not too late. Being slow to get things can also be an advantage, you know when you've understood a thing beyond the superficial. This was said of Bohr, that he was slow to understand a thing but once understood he was a master of it. So play to this and it could actually be an advantage.

Outstanding! I haven’t laughed so much in a while.

Just a fantastic story from an amazing genius of a man.

Marvelous lecture!

This is epic...no STEM student should be allowed to get a degree without having heard Dr. Feynman, especially this presentation.

@emoosavimehr

Жыл бұрын

59:43 the idea of Social Irresponsibility is quite as destructive as the los alamos project itself. Hopefully, the younger students know/are taught better.

I could spend my whole life happy just listening to him talk Amazing person

@MissBettieS

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. He actually gets me high.

Gosh what a great talk, I’d give anything to have been able to listen to some of these guys just witnessed them in the room once just once 👍❤️

Thanks for posting

The extra 10 minutes at the end was great to hear. I'm amazed after all these years there's still new recordings of Feynman coming out. Please post any extra recordings you have.

@archilzhvania6242

2 жыл бұрын

Not a recording but you'll probably enjoy his book "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman".

@malcolmsheridan8784

2 жыл бұрын

@@archilzhvania6242 Already ready that, multiple times :)

@archilzhvania6242

2 жыл бұрын

@@malcolmsheridan8784 I guess you must have read "What do you care what other people think" as well xD

@malcolmsheridan8784

2 жыл бұрын

@@archilzhvania6242 Yes I have read that book, but only once I think. It wasn't as entertaining as "Surely you're joking".

Awesome. What a true genius he was. I read many of his books and I highly recommend them.

This video started autoplaying on me, I was wondering what the hell it was but could not get to my computer to change the video. Best lecture I listened to in a very long time.

This was an absolute pleasure to listen to. Wouldn’t you love to be able to hear what Feynman would say these days 🤔

Wow! Well worth the effort to listen to this one. Great words from a great man. Intelligent insight and information + Humor = students who learn basic principles of wisdom...not just memorized terms and lists of facts. Rare teachers like Mr. Feynman could teach anyone the basics of nuclear theory. He had that gift.

This is my favorite thing ever.