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@wolfvale7863

Ай бұрын

Schrödinger!

@nicolasolton

Ай бұрын

Heisenberg, Zwicky, Pauli.

@robertoruizmedrano3920

Ай бұрын

Pasteur

@saintric7282

Ай бұрын

Heisenberg and ruder boskovich, pascal 17th century

@saintric7282

Ай бұрын

Ruder boskovich. Among the giants of the 18th century human enquiry

I met Paul Dirac, near the end of his life, when he was professor emeritus at Florida State University. I was a typist for the Physics Dept. in 1983, and I typed what may have been his last paper (or one of his last), an overview of the field of physics. I kept a Xerox copy for many years, and finally donated it to the organization that preserves his legacy. I remember him as being very cordial to me.

@johnshuster9475

Ай бұрын

At the start, this account mentions, "Dirac believed that fundamental laws of Nature are found be expressed by 'pretty' equations", but this was not emphasized at the end. I was surprised by this, since Dirac held this belief more and more by the end of his life. To him, Truth had to beautiful, as his equation. His agnosticism became more the belief of a believer! We should remember his belief -- for he was probably right! :)

@michael-vl1mn

Ай бұрын

Dirac was an atheist, you will claim Peter Higgs next. @@johnshuster9475

@maynardtrendle820

29 күн бұрын

Beautiful!😊

@radonpq99

29 күн бұрын

How beautiful, you saw him and worked with him.

@user-ny7cv3me5w

29 күн бұрын

Now I want to c u

My favourite Dirac story comes courtesy of my old maths supervisor at Cambridge, who knew him personally. He recounted how he and his wife had entertained Dirac to dinner. As usual, Dirac said nothing the entire evening, but just sat there quietly observing the wife knitting, which he had never seen before but which clearly fascinated him. As he left at the end of the evening, he made a single remark: that there were just two distinct ways of creating a stitch. He was right, of course; but imagine having the kind of mind which could analyse knitting in the abstract and reach that conclusion!

@itsonlyapapermoon61

Ай бұрын

Beautiful

@ThatsWhenItkickedin

27 күн бұрын

Knit one, pearl two. He and his equation were beautiful. His life was not a failure

@jaewok5G

25 күн бұрын

… but, what are they!?!? now i want to learn how to knit!

@fsinjin60

24 күн бұрын

@@ThatsWhenItkickedin There are other types of stitches but the wife was only using the basic two (a clockwise stitch & an anti-clockwise stitch that is reversed if you look from the other side of the knitted fabric). You can double (or multiple) wrap a stitch before pulling it through or add two stitches on one loop. There are hundreds of stitches but I know very little about knitting.

@MrPLC999

11 күн бұрын

I'm gonna have to nominate Einstein's E=mc^2 as the most elegant and profound equation in all of math and physics. It states that mass can be converted to energy -- and the reverse -- energy can be converted to mass. This has enormous implications for the formation of the physical universe from the energy supplied by the Big Bang. Going in the opposite direction, we derive incredible amounts of energy from small amounts of mass that undergo nuclear reactions.

Sometimes I feel so sad that the life of such important and genius scintists go unnoticed, whereas the life of celebrities are celebrated by the masses

@arun-it9gr

Ай бұрын

Lives of celebrities serve a purpose.. to make people forget their worries, a little steam letting after a tiresome day.. The lives of geniuses are celebrated too.. by those looking for the truth..

@msamadzad

Ай бұрын

True!

@AshikurRahmanRifat

Ай бұрын

Paul Dirac will be rembered as long as humanity is alive .. Everything celebrity will be lost in time...

@youerny

Ай бұрын

Very true, but I feel it has been that way since .. forever (more or less)

@youerny

Ай бұрын

@@AshikurRahmanRifatI agree and maybe even more! I would expect to see an increase as time passes. We are just small people on giants shoulders, isn’t it? 😊

I'm an astrophysicist and long-time admirer of Dirac. This brief bio of his life was exceptionally well-produced; bravo, and thanks for giving one of my scientific heroes the attention he is due. As a personal story, I once was invited to a scientific meeting at Cambridge, and they housed us on campus, staying in what had been faculty chambers. The room I was given I was told was once Dirac's quarters. They didn't know of my long-time admiration of Dirac, so it wasn't planned; what an unexpected thrill! -Tom

@lawrencewamithi1416

9 күн бұрын

Hi am Lawrence from Kenya ,was wondering if you can help so that my discoveries in physics can be known

I was a student at FSU in 1982-1984. I saw him weekly at the Love and or Physics classrooms. Unless you knew who he was, he was just another older man who was incredibly nice and polite. Always a smile.

Dirac achieved something very rare in physics - he theoretically predicted a new phenomenon (anti-matter) through pure math. Not only that, but much of the math of Dirac was derived earlier by the mathematicians Eli Cartan and Wilhelm Killing. They studied the symmetries of space, and found that rotations in 3d space are equivalent to rotations in a special 2d space. This allowed Dirac to take the "square root" of the Klein-Gordon equation, which produced a linear and relativistic quantum wave equation (the Dirac equation). Dirac found that his equation has two solutions, one for electrons and another for anti-electrons (positrons).

@youerny

Ай бұрын

True! Rare but still in a very special club of few, huge, intellectual trees, in the forest of science (Einstein citation approximation 😊)

@ClarkPotter

Ай бұрын

What is the "special" 2D space?

@jerzypawlowski7999

Ай бұрын

@@ClarkPotter The 2d space is special because its coordinates are complex numbers, not real numbers.

@jeff-sq4fe

Ай бұрын

that is special, i feel special

@johnward5102

Ай бұрын

Are you saying that Dirac's equation came from Hamiltonians?

Another perfect, yet sad example of how a wrong-headed parent screwed up their children's self-esteem. One son, dead by his own hand, the other, after decades of acclaim, only able to see his imagined failings. There's more to learn here than just the beauty and importance of Professor Dirac's equations. The science discussed in this interesting report is above my head -- not much I can do with it other than ponder its depths. The unspoken lesson here is one we can all learn from. I just hope that other viewers rethink how children are nurtured and raised.

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

Can you imagine if Dirac had the self-esteem of Heisenberg? He would have probably revolutionized science to levels we have not yet achieved!

@Philb666666

28 күн бұрын

well said and you are spot on.

@paulbreen8533

25 күн бұрын

Three of Wittgenstein's brothers took their own lives. It just may be connected to genius.

@stevevrismo9842

25 күн бұрын

@@paulbreen8533 You certainly may be onto something with your comment. Still, the father's behavior is no excuse. I'm reminded that Barbra Streisand was performing a concert in New York a number of years ago. Apparently, her mother was in the audience. Streisand looked toward her mother and said, "Am I pretty, Mama?" No need to remind you that at that point, Streisand had accomplished EVERYTHING, and yet, there's that parental implanted insecurity.

@AshikurRahmanRifat

23 күн бұрын

It's true ..My father also scared the shit out of me when I wasa children ..All though i have growned a lot now..but i am still afraid of people for no reason

Given that he was apparently a bit of a recluse, it is interesting to note that he spent 6 months in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1928 to discuss various aspects of quantum mechanics with Satyendra Nath Bose, after whom bosons are named. The name was given by Dirac himself, who also coined the name fermion for its opposite counterpart - particles that followed Fermi-Dirac statistics. His modesty in not naming them after himself was apparent.

@FredPlanatia

28 күн бұрын

he was the epitome of modesty, but physicists generally do not name things after themselves. Equations or ideas come to carry their name because other physicists speak of them that way. "Dirac's equation", later "the Dirac Equation". An interesting exception is E=mc^2. It did not come to be known as 'Einstein's equation', perhaps it was just so short its easy enough to say 'E equals m c squared'.

@capri2673

27 күн бұрын

I bet he couldn't wait to get out of there.

@NoName-zn1sb

26 күн бұрын

@@FredPlanatia it's easy

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

1. Bosons are INCORRECTLY named after Bose. Bose, unbeknownst to himself, created what are now know as Bose-Einstein Statistics (which really should just be called Bose Statistics). However, the Boson was 100% Einstein NOT Bose. They should be named after Einstein (but for interesting historical reasons aren't, the same way Dirac should have gotten credit for creating quantum field theory, not Feynman). To quote Professor Douglas Stone, head of Applied Physics at Yale, "Bosons weren't actually predicted by Bose, Bose, unwittingly created a new statistical framework to derive the planck's equation but he was unaware that what he was doing was novel. Even after his paper was published, Schrodinger, who read it, was unaware of any novel ideas in Bose's paper. It was Einstein who predicted Bose-Einstein Condensates, not Bose - who had nothing to do with it's prediction - and Boson's should be called Einsteinions but that may have been too much of a mouthful to pronounce." Reference: Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian (by Douglas Stone). Einstein predicted the Boson NOT Bose. And i suspect Dirac probably didn't derive much knowledge from speaking to Bose because Einstein, who sponsored Bose, had Bose's paper published when NOBODY ELSE WOULD (and got it translated into English even though German was the lingua franca of physics), wrote to other physicists pointing out how and why Bose's paper was original (even showing Schrodinger how Bose' new statistics was 1/3 not 1/2, the defining quality which separates BE Statistics from FD Statistics), got Bose a JOB a prestigious European university, and gave Bose an assignment in the new field of quantum mechanics (something to do with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Matrix Mechanics, which was 100% Max Born, not Heisenberg, even though the latter typically gets credited with it). Bose, by his own admission, could not complete the assignment and within a few years of publishing his brilliant paper, was out of physics. By his own admission "I was like a comet." 2. Bose would have remained unknown for the rest of his life without Einstein. He had tried for months to get his paper published, but nobody of any repute would publish it. 3. Dirac coined the term Boson, but even HE didn't quite grasp the novelty of Bose's paper UNTIL Einstein wrote a primer on it explaining the novelty of what Bose had done. These are the reasons why we just call it BE Statistics and BE Condensates even though the former was 100% Bose and the latter (the Boson) was 100% Einstein. The more you know.... 😉

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

@@FredPlanatia I mean LOTS of equations are INCORRECTLY named after the wrong guy. We've found tons of equations for which the attribution PREDATES the person who was credited for it. Often MULTIPLE geniuses will think of an equation at roughly the same time independent of each other, but for strange historical reasons, one person will get credited for the discovery while the other person is ignored. I mean most people erroneously credit newton with the invention of calculus when Leibniz published it first and gave us the notation we STILL USE TODAY: dy/dx History is a funny thing. The Boson is named after Bose, but it should have been named after Einstein. The Raleigh Jeans Equation is another example. Sooo many equations are like this.

We need more movies on life like these scientists. Just like they did it with Oppenheimer. The world needs to know these great people who ever lived on the same planet as us.

@snakezdewiggle6084

Ай бұрын

@varunnikam You do realize that movies and tv, have been shown to be the, "antimatter", of education. Yes its true that we better remember when emotion is entangled with learning. Personally, I prefer an actual physical book. Each to his/ her own I guess.

@bryanthegoat9593

Ай бұрын

@@snakezdewiggle6084love your response, there is no shortcut to LEARNING!

@snakezdewiggle6084

Ай бұрын

@bryanthegoat9593 Thank you, thars good of to say 😉 What are you currently studying.?

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

May I suggest you a channel called "Kathy Loves Physics & History". She has a lot of biographies of great scientists.

@Nyumc99

28 күн бұрын

Am with you my friend. Tons of folk that are under shadowed by media. For media’s gain only. With the exception of Oscar Schindler and Allan Turin and charlotte grey. And others that have got through/ picked up. All wonderful humans . You are correct. The world needs to be aware of these underground genius’s. There place is secure in the archives, but that’s not the best place for them. Society needs to keep them front and center. Lest we forget . Go Jordan Peterson 👏🖖👌💕

Great video! Dirac stands immortal in the minds of many leaning towards science. Seeing him as an old man and experiencing his full journey is both sobering and insightful.

My Grandfather taught Dirac Mathematics at school in Bristol. I only learnt this fact when my eldest son was talking to my father one day and he happened to mention it. My son now has a PhD in Physics investigating Neutrinos.

Having studied Physical Chemistry in college I find these biographies of famous quantum mechanics heroes quite fascinating.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

If you like the history of quantum mechanics, you NEED to read Professor Douglas Stone's book. Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by Douglas Stone

I actually got a chance to meet Pierre Ramond. I bought a copy of this book on field theory, I did get it signed, and he spoke with the undergraduates, and told a few stories about direct. Some of this I was already familiar with. But it was a great video. this was after a major surgery where I had to learn how to walk again. So it was nice gift. I can see why Dirac and Ramond we’re good friends. Because even after meeting him for a couple hours, he was a very humble and kind man.

@chetsenior7253

Ай бұрын

Ahhh, celebrity, the true evolutionary benchmark.

8.06 One of the greatest photos ever taken in the history of Science. It must be very exciting to live during that era as there are legendary physicists working hard to de-mystify the inner workings of the cosmos.

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25 күн бұрын

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25 күн бұрын

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25 күн бұрын

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25 күн бұрын

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25 күн бұрын

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8:25 What an amazing collection of geniuses, the most influential and productive Physicists of all time. And look who is in the front row dead center anchoring the whole group.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

Fun Fact: before shooting that photograph at the Solvay Conference, they were trying to figure out where everybody would stand. The group unanimously insisted that Einstein sit in the middle as the "crown jewel" of the coterie of geniuses. High praise indeed! Dirac was a huge fan of Einstein's - and the feeling was very mutual!

I am no physicist but during the covid, I tried my best to understand how he derived his equation from the relativistic equation. Indeed a genius. Would never have thought in a million lifetime to use matrices.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

The Dirac matrices had actually been developed many decades before by mathematicians studying rotations in 3d space. Eli Cartan and Wilhelm Killing did it many years before Dirac. Oh and Dirac got help from Oppenheimer and Weyl.

Beautiful video! Thanks. Few seconds more about the equation would have been even better, but I understand the need to balance elements for a better story telling to such a wide audience. I Just subscribed, looking for more ❤

Dirac's work even provided the 'maguffin ' for the "Cities in Flight" novels by James Blish.

Thank you, Cindy, for lifting up the life of Paul Dirac! I met him quite briefly near the end of his life, and his manner was very sweet and modest. He said that he regarded his own contribution to theoretical physics to reflect his luck to live in the "golden age of quantum mechanics", where new discoveries were like "low-hanging fruit". His theory, which was the first to synthesize quantum mechanics with special relativity, predicted the existence of an anti-particle simply as a particle propagating "backwards in time", as Richard Feynman characterized it. However, there was the confounding presence of infinite energy or mass in the theory, which took two more decades of theoretical physics development to explain away, resulting in what we now refer to as quantum electrodynamics, considered a triumph of theoretical physics. Dirac saw within his lifetime the maturation of his theory into the integration of the weak nuclear interaction with his own quantum electrodynamics to form a successful unified theory. He also witnessed its further development with gauge field theory, SU3, and the Standard Model. All before he passed away. My fond notion is that he could permit himself to let go of the label of "failure" by the end of his life. He certainly impressed me as a happy person. ~~~~Arthur Ogawa

@NoName-zn1sb

26 күн бұрын

"All before he passed away." Good thing, cuz after would have been too late!

Excellent video with great delivery - thank you for sharing it! You may want to fix the typo at 6:28 where it says "elections" instead of "electrons".

@olivierbegassat851

Ай бұрын

Noticed that too.

@oahuhawaii2141

9 күн бұрын

With such reliance on the convenience of modern technology, careful proofreading is a must. Nobody is immune to autocorrect errors. Perhaps a formal model of how autoINcorrect happens can be constructed, and explained by an elegant equation.

Bravo! I was completely engrossed in this marvelous production. Truly enjoyed this program.

Your gentleness is as Brilliant as the stars.

A Dirac story I heard was that when he was visiting Stony Brook University, there was a snow storm. A graduate student was "asked" to please see if he could help shovel out Professor Dirac's automobile. When he arrived, he found the tires (tyres) frozen to the driveway, and the driveway coated with treacherous ice. It seems that Professor Dirac, whose experience was with Britain and Florida's milder winters had "helpfully" poured hot water from the "kettle" (i.e., "teapot" in 'Merican) around the tires where it had frozen solid.

Einstein, Dirac, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, Bohr, Curie, Planc, Lorentz etc etc... it really was the golden age of Physics.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

Born, Wigner, Von Neumann, Born, Oppenheimer, Weyl, etc. 🙂

@user-oi2rd8yl2u

7 күн бұрын

And Arnold Sommerfeld who found the dimensionless constant 1/137.06 , the supreme constant in physics, as 3.14159 is in space and 2.71828 is in number theory, both dimensionless. And de Broglie too.

@user-oi2rd8yl2u

7 күн бұрын

And Rutherford, nicknamed by his students "The Crocodyle" due to his behaviour.

Strangely I "met" PAM Dirac in Chemistry...I was impressed....so should we all... thank you for this great inspirational presentation of the most underrated genius

For someone as awkward as Paul Dirac, it is ironic that he predicted that every particle has a pair.

In my undergraduate studies of quantum electrodynamics, Dirac and Feynman seemed to me to have the most intuitive understanding of the quantum world. Their genuis astounded me.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

Don't' forget Julian Schwinger and Tomonaga! Every bit as smart as those aforementioned two. I agree with you though. Feynman and Dirac (and Einstein before them) had the most intuitive understanding of the quantum world. Remember, quantum entanglement was staring Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac, Born, Bohr, etc, all in the face. It took Einstein in 1932 to point out that it was ENTANGLEMENT that was the truly bizarre property of quantum mechanics (and Einstein's EPR paper was basically ignored until John Bell's inequalities - but now forms the foundation of quantum information theory). Book recommendation for you. Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by Douglas Stone.

This is a highly awaited video for me. I would also recommend you to make a biography-style video about Max Born.

Excellent, incisive and accurate. Thanks!

Most beautiful? This is a question of opinion. My favorite is Maxwell's equations. They made discovering relativity inevitable.

What an absolutely great man! Thanks for the amazing video :)

I'm moved that he finally found someone who would love him.

this was interesting, i hadnt heard much about Dirac's life. also, I'd like to see a video about Ettore Majorana lol

Thank you for sharing this story.

You did an excellent job. Thank you for your efforts, you made Dirac human.

Superb dissertation ! Thank you. 😀

What I think about his feelings about himself was that he was a truly humble and gracious man. That kind of success? Most of us would get so full of ourselves we'd be practically unbearable.

Thanks for this very good video about Paul Dirac's life and works.

Excellent Video and narration.

Truly brings a human touch. We see the work but never the person. Thank u

Paul Dirac is one of the scientists I would most have liked to meet, now and then, over a cup of coffee and the occasional word. The epitome of the quiet genius.

Thank you for the biography and history lesson!

His brilliant mind open up a whole universe in another dimension. Hats off and MGBY Sir!

Brilliant content...kudos for makers

I would just like to say "Thank You!" for the very interesting presentation! Such a wonderful change from the all too prevalent, machine (mis-)read, machine translated, narrations attached to otherwise interesting subjects, that essentially make them intolerable to sit through! I found your speaking style to be both very clear, and accurate, and it was a pleasure to listen to! FWIW, somehow, despite KZread's best efforts to do me over for using an ad blocker, your video appeared in my feed and it was intriguing enough to click upon, and I am glad that I did! I will look for more from you in future! Cheers!

@loujost

28 күн бұрын

Interesting comment. I got the opposite impression. The voice is so even it seems automated, and during the brief moments when the narrator is shown, she seemed like an AI creation. Nevertheless, whether real or AI-assisted, the content is great!

As french we thrive abroad not at home 🇨🇵.Dirac's father is the real example of how as french living abroad we love our language.But here in Paris my hometown people don't care much about the level of french you speak but some fancy words in english you utter. Voilà 🗼🇨🇵

Thank you for the simple definition of QM, "the science of the very small", got it.

Really great video, thank you.

the way you narrate is very peaceful 🙏🙏😍😍

@rggndfw

26 күн бұрын

One of the best voices I have heard in a while.

Thank you Cindy! Love these. Do some biologists in the future!

I love it when anamolies in untested mathematics results in new discoveries, let alone something as big as anti-matter.

When I look into the universe I see Paul's Dirac reflection back unto me, a positive reflection through space and time unto us as a reminder, he's still with us....thank you so much, precious moments in time, back to Dirac. about me, I'm not a physicist but I love physics. This touched my heart and I cried.

Great video. Dirac's relativistic electron equation is truly beautiful. I wish more people could appreciate its beauty and significance.

@DavidEllerman

23 күн бұрын

That remainds me of Wigner's description of Feynman: "He is another Dirac, only human this time."

Dirac's view of religion is just like mine, i couldn't believe someone would have my exact view on religion . He was also a good human being, unlike some of the famous theoretical physicists at that time. I also love seeing the Dirac equation, as an aspiring theoretical physicist.

@itsonlyapapermoon61

Ай бұрын

God is not a Man. God is Light(photon/information). Bible There is Nothing Outside Yourself. Walter Russell, The Secret of Light

@--Singularity--

Ай бұрын

@@itsonlyapapermoon61 Those who tell you -don´t know Those who know -wont tell you

Absolutely one of the BEST videos I've see on KZread! Thank you for making this video and giving such a detailed explanation! This really is a beautiful equation and Dirac is, far from being a failure. I hope most people, nowadays, recognize his work as well!

I stumbled upon your channel and very much enjoyed it. Liked and Subscribed 👍❤

I have a "good" scientific interest, but did not know about Dirac yet. Thank you very much for making this video !

Paul Dirac was a GENIUS and one of the 5 greatest physicists ever. They claimed he was autistic, but that's idle speculation, never confirmed. The man essentially created quantum field theory without even being aware he was doing it (as Feynman later said). He was INCREDIBLE. Dirac Metals are really interesting too; I'm hoping you guys will cover that in a later video. However, this video is really bad click bait and I didn't really learn what makes an equation "beautiful." Calling ANY equation "the world's most beautiful equation" without first establishing the criteria of what makes ANY equation "beautiful" to begin with, is intellectually dishonest and insults the intelligence of your audience. This is a click-bait title, but I get it, you need the clicks and eyeballs. Euler's identity is traditionally considered the most "beautiful equation in the world" because it's ostensibly simple but encodes a lot of complexity within it (and it has wide applications). You made a whole video and I STILL don't know why it's more "beautiful" than Newton's law of gravitation or the Einstein Field Equations or Maxwell's EM equations. CLICK BAIT. Love your channel, but this video is silly. I still don't know what makes the Dirac equation "the most beautiful" lol. Why not do a wide historical sampling of ALL the equations in the history of mathematics that are considered by ACTUAL mathematicians to be the "the most beautiful equations," and then showing how Dirac's equation is in accord with the intellectual spirit of those other "beautiful equations." CLICK BAIT.

@Newsthink

25 күн бұрын

Fair point. And you gave me a great idea to work on a vid about Newton and gravity

he is a very humble man. High respect for him..as far as I know, his equation is like an upgraded version of Schrodinger equation by combining it with SR.

@LuisAldamiz

Ай бұрын

I was also in that mistake some time ago. In fact Dirac's equation is older than Schrödinger's and it's precisely the "failure" to achieve that unification that Dirac lamented, which has us putting up with the relatively "Newtonian" equation of the Austrian instead, which works but does not unify (nor can because it has linear time).

The beauty of science can only be interpreted by us folks through the ingenuity of such scientists. The ways they think of everyday things is what we may consider poetry.

Excellent... thanks 🙏.

I mean, Dirac is crazy underrated don't get me wrong but no equation could ever top Euler's identity.

@pangeaproxima3681

29 күн бұрын

ok, ok...

Very nice video. Thank you.

We need a movie - A beautiful Mind

Thanks for the video, brings me back to my younger years when I loved studying the history of science and learning how humanity has steadily uncovered the mysteries of the universe.

I always love your video biographies

Thank you! Best Dirac presentation I’ve seen yet. ❤👍🏽💯

@Newsthink

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the support!

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

25 күн бұрын

Why is the equation the most "beautiful equation in the world" ahead of, say, Euler's Identity? I love the channel, but it's title is kinda click baity.

I heard a funny story about Dirac when he was here at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables. I do not know if it is true, but if it is, it is very funny. The story says he had a penchant for taking coconuts from people's yards along his four-mile walk from his home in Coconut Grove to the university for which he finally got into trouble and was told to stop stealing coconuts. LOL

Great story, thanks

I don't understand such things as this; but I look forward to the day that I will...

Thank you NewsThink

Good explanation👍

I was looking forward to a video about this

I walk pass Dirac's house in Monk Road, Bristol regularly....Interesting video.

Immortality is something trully beautiful. I came here to watch a video of about physics and math, but instead, I've watched a love story about a boy who believed that he was incapable of love and changed the world... amazing.

@calicoesblue4703

27 күн бұрын

Umm, not really🤷

I was lucky and got to meet Paul at FSU in 1975. His office was across-the-hall from my faculty advisor's and we became 'elevator friends'.

Best explanation of Dirac’s equation ever.

The more I read about science discovering the further complexities of nature, the more I realize how simple nature must ultimately be.

Which is, to me, the greater - the narrative or the factual content...another more importantly to me which blends both to create a wonderful video....entertaining. thanks

Excellent documentary of a brilliant mind.

Your voice is amazing. You should rent it to big media companies❤

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That is exactly what you should not do. Keep doing what you are doing. Ifit doesn't pay well in monetary terms, there are more important things as I'm sure you well know.

At 6:30 the script reads Elections instead of Electrons 😊

The video clearly didn't explain why it was the most beautiful equation.

What Dirac did was an act of ingenuity. Today, admittedly, one would simply have to open a textbook on the representations of the rotation group, and copy and paste - if one is able to conceive the jargon of the mathematicians.

I read or heard somewhere from someone who knew him that the social awkwardness was overplayed. And I wonder if when Dirak answers Heisenberg's point about dancing with 'nice girls' by asking 'Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?' he is actually showing a laconic humour.

Beautiful video. The book on P.A.M. Dirac by G. Farmello is a great book.

Another great video about another great mind. Dirac really should be more famous/recognised/known in the world.

So well articulated that a layman like me cud at least understand intuitively, if at all I understood. Thank u

Dirac equations represent an universe of it's own.

12:48 That looks like one of the lecture halls in the science building at the University of Miami. In fact, on closer inspection, it is definitely so.

So glad to hear that Schrodinger won the award with Dirac. Unlike, Roger Penrose whose model of universe was used by Stephen Hawking and Hawking won the Nobel prize for it. While, Roger Penrose was awarded Nobel Prize in 2020 some 45 years later after he made contributions to Physics. Dirac stands on the should of Erwin Schrodinger just like Hawking stood on the shoulders of Penrose.

Great post about a very great man. How weird (or perhaps it isn't) that he had such a hard start in life, that would have crippled many.

make more physics video, i love this series 😁

6:27 - 6:31 The text in the slide reads: "The Dirac equation... of elections moving..." - Yes, ELECTIONS! 🤣

What an interesting video! How about a biography of J. Willard Gibbs? I regard Gibbs as America's greatest scientist, with the possible exception of Murray Gell-Mann

The allegedly instantaneous jumps between electron valences was recently found to not be instantaneous.

There is no doubt in my mind, that Sir Dirac was on the Autism Spectrum. Never really understood the relationship between other human being. Many thank you for this nice video!

"All things being equal..." Nothing is equal.