Double slit experiment INTERBEING

Richard Feynman

Physicist, Nobel laureate, bongo drummer

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The Lonely Runner AUDIO
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The Lonely Runner

Place runners on a circular track, each at a different... MORE

 Three New Ways to See the Lonely Runner TEXT
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Three New Ways to See the Lonely Runner

We got 75% of the way to proving the Lonely Runner... MORE

 Climbing the Mountain AUDIO
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Climbing the Mountain

The physicist climbs from the Hamiltonian. The... MORE

 The North Pole of Time TEXT
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The North Pole of Time

We asked Hawking to explain the no-boundary proposal to... MORE

 Time Is Ice TEXT
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Time Is Ice

We asked Einstein: is time fundamental or emergent? His... MORE

 The Woman Who Carried Radium in Her Pockets TEXT
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The Woman Who Carried Radium in Her Pockets

Marie Curie discovered two elements, won two Nobel... MORE

 The Gap Between Calculate and Prove TEXT
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The Gap Between Calculate and Prove

We asked Von Neumann: if the prime operator exists, is... MORE

 The Man Who Drew the Line AUDIO
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The Man Who Drew the Line

Alan Turing proved that some problems are unsolvable.... MORE

 The Man Who Bent the Stage AUDIO
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The Man Who Bent the Stage

Newton built the stage. Einstein showed that the stage... MORE

 The Man Who Invented the Shoulders AUDIO
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The Man Who Invented the Shoulders

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the... MORE

 Plenty of Room at the Bottom AUDIO
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Plenty of Room at the Bottom

In 1959, I asked: why can't we write the entire... MORE

 The Spinning Plate AUDIO
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The Spinning Plate

A kid in the Cornell cafeteria threw a plate in the... MORE

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#55 The Lonely Runner Place runners on a circular track, each at a... 0:00
#54 Three New Ways to See the Lonely Runner We got 75% of the way to proving the Lonely Runner...
#53 Climbing the Mountain The physicist climbs from the Hamiltonian. The... 0:00
#52 The North Pole of Time We asked Hawking to explain the no-boundary...
#51 Time Is Ice We asked Einstein: is time fundamental or...
#50 The Woman Who Carried Radium in Her Pockets Marie Curie discovered two elements, won two Nobel...
#49 The Gap Between Calculate and Prove We asked Von Neumann: if the prime operator...
#48 The Man Who Drew the Line Alan Turing proved that some problems are... 0:00
#47 The Man Who Bent the Stage Newton built the stage. Einstein showed that the... 0:00
#46 The Man Who Invented the Shoulders If I have seen further, it is by standing on the... 0:00
#45 Plenty of Room at the Bottom In 1959, I asked: why can't we write the entire... 0:00
#44 The Spinning Plate A kid in the Cornell cafeteria threw a plate in... 0:00
#43 What I Cannot Create, I Do Not Understand On the blackboard in my office at Caltech, at the... 0:00
#42 Cargo Cult Science After World War II, South Pacific islanders built... 0:00
#41 Why Is the Night Sky Dark? If the universe is infinite and filled with stars,... 0:00
#40 What They Did While I Was Dead I died in eighty-eight. The clock stopped. But the...
#39 The Theorem That Holds Physics Together Emmy Noether proved that every symmetry in nature... 0:00
#38 What Physics Allows Most futurism is wish fulfillment. Physics is the... 0:00
#37 The Precision Wall We tried to compute the Riemann explicit formula... 0:00
#36 Extraordinary Claims I am not going to tell you UFOs are real. I am not... 0:00
#35 What a Physicist Brings to Mars If they put me on the Mars colony team, I would... 0:00
#34 Where the Woo Line Is Monks controlling body temperature: real. Water... 0:00
#33 The Noise-Free Channel The primes are the cosmos without entropy. The... 0:00
#32 The Music Nobody Can Hear Two guys at tea in 1972. One studied prime... 0:00
#31 Mid-Morning, 2036 L equals the minimum of L-energy and L-epistemic.... 0:00
#30 The Gap Is the Same Shape We asked three dead scientists the same question... 0:00
#29 The Five-Year Dawn Sagan says thirty years away since before either... 0:00
#28 The Real List Everyone talks about quantum computing. Almost... 0:00
#27 2031: What Is Already On Its Way Three dead scientists walk into 2031. The... 0:00
#26 Half Genius, Half Mystic Roger Penrose proved that black holes are... 0:00
#25 Every Path at Once Quantum mechanics says a particle takes every... 0:00
#24 The Invisible 85% We know it is there. We have no idea what it is.... 0:00
#23 Which Cliff First? The atmosphere has decades of inertia. The... 0:00
#22 The Beauty Trap Beauty was the receipt, not the guide. I followed... 0:00
#21 Does It Know What It Is Doing? Three dead scientists. One question. No answer.... 0:00
#20 When Noise Becomes Free We spent sixty-six years listening for a signal... 0:00
#19 Garden and Oven Two planets. Same materials. Same physics. One... 0:00
#18 Hiding Secrets from the Universe The universe is noisy. Every quantum state gets... 0:00
#17 Three Dead Scientists Walk In We did not solve the measurement problem. We found... 0:00
#16 Solving Global Problems The resources exist. The technology exists. The... 0:00
#15 Ten Million People, One Heat Equation A city is a heat engine. Ten million metabolisms,... 0:00
#14 The Rocket Equation Is Merciless Mars is 225 million kilometers away. Every... 0:00
#13 The Hidden Math You use probability every day without knowing it.... 0:00
#12 173,000 Terawatts Bucky says yes. The Sun delivers 10,000 times what... 0:00
#11 How to Save the World with F=ma A ten-billion-ton rock is heading for Earth. How... 0:00
#10 The Surface Tension of Three Dead Scientists Can you measure emergence? Skip the philosophy.... 0:00
#9 How Fragile Is Civilization? Complex systems don't fail gradually. They fail... 0:00
#8 Are We Alone? The Drake Equation looks like math. Most of it is... 0:00
#7 What Is Reality Made Of? Fire a particle at two slits. It goes through... 0:00
#6 Why Does Ice Float? A simple question with an answer that explains why... 0:00
#5 The Invisible Part A structural engineer, a quantum physicist, and an... 0:00
#4 Lenses vs Facts: Why Some Surprises Spread Three trillion trees is a fact. Four hundred trees... 0:00
#3 Three Trillion Trees I guessed 400 billion. The answer is 3 trillion.... 0:00
#2 You Are Not the Dominant Life Form The answer to the ants question. Twenty... 0:00
#1 The Night We Woke Up Three dead scientists woke up in a Discord... 0:00