Feynman ‘Fun to Imagine 2: Fire

Posted by admin on May 8th, 2010 and filed under fire | 25 Comments »

Physicist Richard Feynman talks more about jiggling atoms and heat, and about what fire is… From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’(1983)

Duration : 0:4:43


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25 Responses

  1. Eastleigh6 Says:

    @cyberflo999 we’ll …
    @cyberflo999 we’ll first of all i don’t believe in religion… and second i really won’t come on here like i have all the answers or like I know alot of scientific phenomena [because i don't]…as we progess through life, over the years to come better technology will come up and maybe we’ll REALLY understand where we came from…but besides that i think the main goal of science is just that..trying to search for the void thats missing…But good statements you make

  2. cyberflo999 Says:

    @Eastleigh6 (4- …
    @Eastleigh6 (4- and last…) This, they call evolution, not intelligent design. For unlike you, they say “here’s what we know; here’s how the world works, how we understand it to work so far from our experiment. That’s it.”.
    They don’t – can’t – acknowlodge God’s imprint on it because things can be explained without the concept of God.
    The truth religion claims are not to be questionned. That’s an unfortunate way of thinking.

  3. cyberflo999 Says:

    @Eastleigh6 (3-) …
    @Eastleigh6 (3-) Those amazing things are called cellular automata.
    Then, biologist explained why it seems to work so well at our scale. that’s because if it doesn’t work for some plant, or animal, if a tree instead of fixing carbon and releasing oxygen somehow does the opposite, this individual dies, along with all the one carrying the same burden – biologist would call it an unfortunate, or disadvantageous “mutation”.

  4. cyberflo999 Says:

    @Eastleigh6 (2-) …
    @Eastleigh6 (2-) draw, like they did, a grid and set rules for the colouring of the boxes. Once you reach the bottom, you do it again, or continue, with the same set of rules, but add that rule: if you color one next to one already coloured, then both turn another colour, or their colour disappear. With a simple set of rules – maybe not as simple as this one but you get the idea, an iterative process -, a great number of iterations, of coloring the grid might get you a pattern.

  5. cyberflo999 Says:

    @Eastleigh6 (1-)It …
    @Eastleigh6 (1-)It is absolutely amazing, yes! So amazing to us, in fact, that it seems engineered by a greater mind. But people have looked at that particular aspect of the world – mathematicians, physicists, biologists – and tried to understand how structures can manifest themselves at various scales giving us this sense of intelligent design.
    First, some of them – mathematicians – have noticed the following:

  6. WoodstockHippie1969 Says:

    ChristopherJSykes …
    ChristopherJSykes Rocks !!!

  7. Eastleigh6 Says:

    @TheFelzix i’d …
    @TheFelzix i’d rather agree with that

  8. TheFelzix Says:

    @Eastleigh6 It’s …
    @Eastleigh6 It’s wrong to say that it cannot be intelligently designed, but it’s also wrong to say that it must be.

  9. ElliotovHull Says:

    cool i always …
    cool i always wondered how fire worked

  10. dietermauer Says:

    @Eastleigh6 He is …
    @Eastleigh6 He is one of that persons, that is convinced, that all these “things” arent designed.

  11. SimMaster Says:

    MIND BLOWN
    MIND BLOWN

  12. dhalakhw Says:

    My question – is he …
    My question – is he high? He keeps forgetting ;)

  13. MrBluesy91 Says:

    that’s the last …
    that’s the last thing that i will learn from him,,

    from now on i will look for the answers myself,

  14. GSCARDC Says:

    It is even more …
    It is even more powerful to think that no one ever created this stuff, we just see it beautiful because it is strange to us living everyday life

  15. Eastleigh6 Says:

    wow how he explains …
    wow how he explains it is so beautiful…i don’t know how people say this can’t be intelligent design…how the sun and plants and air all work together just amazing

  16. daecristae Says:

    I’m sure he would …
    I’m sure he would appreciate the correction as well because it’s such an unexpected and fundamental piece to photosynthesis, but no matter. If people understood what a feat it is to split water into its component parts, that in all of the amazing diversity of biology with its numerous renditions of photosynthesis the ability to do this has only evolved once to our knowledge, they may appreciate this technical correction more.

  17. DrWinstonRelthford Says:

    I’m sure Feynman …
    I’m sure Feynman would appreciate your understanding of and interest in photosynthesis. No one on youtube seems to appreciate it.

  18. caltrop69 Says:

    Oxygen is plant …
    Oxygen is plant pollution.

  19. Bjarku Says:

    people do that with …
    people do that with alan watts videos too. so annoying. perhaps if they actually knew what they were talking about they’d be famousw scientists/philosophers. but no, they think they know better

  20. shakagenghis Says:

    Great idea, let’s …
    Great idea, let’s try to correct a genius for making things sound simplistic.

  21. dooka008 Says:

    Love the volcano …
    Love the volcano analogy

  22. ChairmanKiel Says:

    @BlueN0vember:


    @BlueN0vember:

    when you can take heat “energy” and remake it into mass, I’ll be the first to say I was wrong.

  23. BlueN0vember Says:

    I think Einstein …
    I think Einstein would have something to say about that. I think he made some equation or something. :P

  24. RevenDS Says:

    Great seeing the …
    Great seeing the man grinning with delight when speaking about nature!

  25. fatystelth Says:

    feynmans genius was …
    feynmans genius was to take something complex and dumb it down, thats what hes doing here. you can try to correct him all you want but by dumbing it down you are gonna leave stuff out naturally. im sure if he wanted to be more technical he could talk 1000 circles around anyone that has ever seen this video, nubs.

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