May. 11, 2013 at 9:07pm with 1 note
The Fantastic Mr Feynman

In celebration of Feynman’s birthday.

Apologies for late post, shocking hangover kept me in bed all day. 

9:06pm with 532 notes
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scienceisbeauty: Richard P. Feynman would have turned 95 today. We’ll miss him always. Gold dust: Lecture 1: Law of Gravitation — An Example of Physical Law http://bit.ly/10nWIDw Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics http://bit.ly/11YPw2X Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles http://bit.ly/11YPs3j Lecture 4: Symmetry in Physical Law http://bit.ly/17aAa1n Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future http://bit.ly/1351R52 Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty — The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature http://bit.ly/10ArKh1

scienceisbeauty:

Richard P. Feynman would have turned 95 today. We’ll miss him always.

Gold dust:

Lecture 1: Law of Gravitation — An Example of Physical Law http://bit.ly/10nWIDw

Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics http://bit.ly/11YPw2X

Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles http://bit.ly/11YPs3j

Lecture 4: Symmetry in Physical Law http://bit.ly/17aAa1n

Lecture 5: The Distinction of Past and Future http://bit.ly/1351R52

Lecture 6: Probability and Uncertainty — The Quantum Mechanical View of Nature http://bit.ly/10ArKh1

May. 9, 2013 at 11:55pm with 1 note
Birthday

If you’re near London this weekend, Feynman birthday extravaganza:

http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/1778

10:36pm with 69 notes
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scienceisbeauty: “Playing” with Feynman diagrams via Shores of the Dirac Sea (Woof Woof) More “funny” diagrams on this paper: More On Superstring Perturbation Theory.

scienceisbeauty:

“Playing” with Feynman diagrams via Shores of the Dirac Sea (Woof Woof)

More “funny” diagrams on this paper: More On Superstring Perturbation Theory.

May. 1, 2013 at 7:54pm with 324 notes
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“
So my antagonist said, “Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it’s impossible?” “No”, I said, “I can’t prove it’s impossible. It’s just very unlikely”. At that he said, “You are very unscientific. If you can’t prove it impossible then how can you say that it’s unlikely?” But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.
—

Richard P. Feynman

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Apr. 11, 2013 at 8:09pm with 955 notes
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sircle:

Yes.

If your favorite scientists throughout history were super-hip web start-ups, these would be their logos.

I would buy stock in that Feynman guy any day. He’s my dude. Check out the rest of the superb collection from Alan Betancourt.

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Mar. 22, 2013 at 1:14pm with 2 notes
Yesterday was the 25th Anniversary of Feynman’s Death

http://blog.physicsworld.com/2013/03/21/should-more-leading-scientists-engage-in-public-service/

Sorry I missed it, was en route from London to Austin.

Feb. 27, 2013 at 10:46pm with 26 notes
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[Subatomic particles] do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything you have ever seen.
—

Richard Feynman 

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Feb. 26, 2013 at 9:54pm with 83 notes
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kvetchlandia: Uncredited Photographer     Theoretical Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman   1959 “…will you understand what I’m going to tell you? …No, you’re not going to be able to understand it. …I don’t understand it. Nobody does…. The scale of light can be described by numbers—called the frequency—and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can’t see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It’s still light… Light is something like raindrops—each little lump of light is called a photon—and if the light is all one color, all the ‘raindrops’ are the same color… Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles…” Richard Feynman, “QED : The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” 1985 “Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn’t mean all bets are off.” Murray Gell-Mann

kvetchlandia:

Uncredited Photographer     Theoretical Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman   1959

“…will you understand what I’m going to tell you? …No, you’re not going to be able to understand it. …I don’t understand it. Nobody does…. The scale of light can be described by numbers—called the frequency—and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to blue to ultraviolet. We can’t see ultraviolet light, but it can affect photographic plates. It’s still light… Light is something like raindrops—each little lump of light is called a photon—and if the light is all one color, all the ‘raindrops’ are the same color… Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles…” Richard Feynman, “QED : The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” 1985

“Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn’t mean all bets are off.” Murray Gell-Mann

9:49pm with 72 notes
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
— Richard Feynman (via amberjax)