Richard Feynman - The World from another point of view

foreigner, I don't know, it's hard to one day invent very crazy witches or something, you tell about how people used to believe in witches and of course now no one believes in witches and you say, how could they believe in witches ? You're turning around, you say, let's see what we believe in. What ceremonies do we do every morning? We brush our teeth. What is the evidence that brushing our teeth does us any good? In cavities, you start to wonder: Can we all imagine if? It's that when the Earth orbits there is a border between light and dark and along that border all the people along that border who are doing the same ritual for no good reason, just like in the Middle Ages , they had other rituals and you I have an image of this perpetual line of toothbrushes going around the Earth is to take the

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I haven't found the evidence from dentists because they just learned it in school and don't now. trying to argue that it is good or bad to brush your teeth when I am trying to argue is to think about things from a new

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thank you look I have had a series of pleasant experiences in my life, the earliest being when I was a child , I made up a problem for some of the powers of integers and, in trying to get the fun part, I developed a certain set of numbers whose formulas I couldn't understand and later discovered were known. like Bernoulli numbers and I discovered them in 1739, so I was up until 1739 when I was about 14, and then a little bit later I discovered something that I discovered.

They just invented something called what we now call operated calculus and that. It was invented in 1890 something as you see I was little by little inventing things that came later and later but the moment in which I began to realize that I was now working on something new was what I read about quantum electrodynamics at that time and I read a book and I learned it, for example, I read the Iraq book and he had these problems that no one knew how to solve, they described it there. I couldn't understand the book very well because it wasn't really up to par, but there in the last paragraph at the end of the book it said that some new ideas are needed here and so I was there.

Some new ideas were needed. Well, then I started thinking of new ideas. Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner, and his son Carl walked cautiously down the wet cobbles of Milbank high in the eyes of Yorkshire Feynman, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, retreats to this remote village near from his wife's house for a special purpose; It is here that he finds the time and solitude to examine the ideas that have made him the most feared character and Original Mind in Modern Physics Feynman is at the forefront of one of science's oldest and most intriguing hide-and-seek games, finding the final constituents of the

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Feynman is a famous maverick encouraged by his father, a New Yorker. A salesman to confront conventional wisdom once said that all the children walked in small groups with their parents in the woods and then the following Monday we were playing in a field and the children said to me: What is that bird? What's it called? Know? I have the slightest idea of ​​that person's name, he said, well, it's a brown-throated lovebird, and he says that your father doesn't teach you anything, but my father had already taught me about the names of the birds that we once walked by, and he says that it's a kind of thrush. brown, says he knows what that bird is called, it's a brown garbage tour in German, it's called damn pest in Chinese, it's called king long pong in Japanese, etc., and when you know all the names in every language of that bird You don't know anything but absolutely nothing about the bird so we went on and talked about the pecking at the feathers so I had already learned that names although they constitute knowledge is knowing the name of something that has caused me some problem since because I refuse to learn the name You're welcome, so when someone comes in and says you have the explanation for Fitzclillon's experiment, I say what, what, what is that, he says you know they last a long time and it disintegrates into two cakes, oh, oh, yeah, now.

I know, but I never know the names of things. What he forgot to tell me was that knowing the names of things is useful if you want to talk to someone else, so you're saying what you're talking about, but the basic principle of knowing. about something instead of just knowing its name, it's something you became attached to, yes, of course, we have to learn. These are types of disciplines in the field of science that you have to learn to know when you know and when you don't. you don't know and what do you know and what do you don't know is uh you have to be very careful not to get confused shapes your methods of thinking the way you look at the world well we had a lot of little games like you would say at the table you would think in some little problem and if they assumed that we were, you were a Martian, you were the Martians and we came to this earth and we would look at it from the outside, but now I can.

I don't explain exactly what he meant, but there is a way to see something new as if you have never seen it before for the first time and ask questions about it as if you are different, for example, if you ask later, I did a bit of fun research . for a college paper on sleep but it started with a question like this suppose you were a Martian who never slept they didn't sleep you didn't have to sleep and you came to this earth and you saw that these people had this funny puppy that every day for a certain time you had to lie down and become unconscious and then the natural question would be how does it feel to be unconscious what's wrong with you the ideas keep going and suddenly they stop or they just run slower and slower but what happens to your ideas?

How does it feel to be unconscious? So I tried to answer the question: what happens when you become unconscious? But you find that these days you still face a particularly difficult problem when you are absolutely stuck, you tend to say, let's look at it like a Martian would look at it. Sometimes there are many things that people did, for example Maxwell. He put the equations together with Faraday, he formulated the equations mathematically with some model in his hand and then the rack got his answer by just writing and guessing an equation and other people got there, it's like in relativity they got the idea by looking at the principles of symmetry.

Now all these methods in Heisenberg got quantum mechanics from him, but I think he just talks about things. that you can measure now all these ideas we should only talk about things we can measure try to define things in terms of only the things you measure let's formulate the equation mathematically or guess the equation or all these things are tried all the time look for symmetries all of that is try all that when we go against the problem we do all that it's very useful but we all know that's what we learned in physics classes how to do it, but the new problem we're stuck on, we're stuck because all those methods don't work If any of those methods had worked, we would have passed through there, so when we get stuck in a certain place, it's a place where history won't repeat itself and that's what makes it happen.

Even more exciting because regardless of what we see, the method, the trick and the way it will look will be very different from anything we have seen before because we have used all the methods since before, so therefore something like The story of the idea is an accident of how things really happen and if I want to turn the story around to try to find a new way of looking at it, it doesn't make any difference, it's just that I don't care, the only thing that's true proof in physics is the experiment, history is fundamentally irrelevant, his father's most lasting legacy was not only learning to question the physical world, but also an enthusiasm for research that, at 54, Feynman still shares today. which has to do with curiosity, has to do with people wondering what makes something do something and then discovering that if they are trying to get answers, they are related to each other, the things that make the wind make the waves and the movement of water are like the movement of them like the movement of sand the fact that things have common characteristics is becoming more and more Universal what we are looking for is how everything works and how everything is what makes everything work and uh what happens first in the story is We discover the things that are at first glance and then gradually we ask more questions and then we dig a little deeper into the things we can do.

We need to do a little more complicated experiment to find out, but it's curious about where we are, what we are, it's much more exciting to discover that we are in a ball, half the stick and upside down, spinning in space, it's a mysterious force that keeps us spinning around a large mass of gas that is burned with a fuel by a fire that is completely different from fire any fire we can make well now we can make that fire nuclear fire no, but that is a much more exciting story for many people that the stories that other people used to make up worried about the universe, that we lived on the back of a turtle or something, were wonderful stories, but the truth is much more remarkable, so what's the pleasure of physics?

For me, as it is revealed, the truth is so extraordinary so amazing and I cannot have this disease and many other people who have studied enough to begin to understand a little how things work are fascinated by it and this fascination drives to the point that they have been able to convince governments and others to continue supporting them in this research that the race is entering their own environment as a theoretical physicist Feynman has no laboratory and finds that family relaxation helps him concentrate in recent years that has preoccupied him with the long and almost childish question of what the things that constitute the world we see around us are really made of: have we finally reached the first stone from which we can make anything thing a tree a human being or should we continue looking at smaller things? and smaller pieces and going deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit Feynman is trying to piece together our scattered knowledge of the smallest pieces of matter to see if they fit into a pattern, the problem, although fundamentally important to all branches of science, seems very far from everyday reality.

The world is strange, the whole universe is very strange, but when you look at the details, you find that the rules of the game are very simple. The mechanical rules by which you can discover exactly what will happen when the situation is simple. I repeat, this game of chess is not. If you were in a corner where there are only a few pieces involved you can work out exactly what should happen and you can always do it when there are only a few pieces so you know you understand it and yet in the real game there are so many pieces that you can't imagine what is going to happen, so there was a kind of hierarchy of different complexities that is hard to believe, it is incredible, in fact, most people do not believe that the behavior of, for example, Me, John, yak, yak, and you, naughty, and all this is the result of many, many elements, all obeying these very simple rules, evolving into such a creature that billions of years of life with its experiences have produced the spiky thing. that stand out like this and so on the real there are so many things in the world there is so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomena that it is almost incredible that the final variety of phenomena can arise from such a constant operation of such simple rules but you have had to build the most complex scaffolding to discover the simple rules, but it's not complicated, it's a lot and if you start from the beginning, which no one wants to do, I mean, you come to me now like in an interview and ask me about the latest discoveries that have done no one ever asked about a simple ordinary phenomenon on a street you know what happens with those colors or something like that I don't have a nice interview I explain everything about the colors of the wings of butterflies I don't care that you want the great final results, so it's going to be complicated because at the end of 400 years I have a very effective method of discovering things about the world in the search for the basic rules of The physical world John Dalton put together a comprehensive explanation more than 150 years ago.

He assumed that everything we see is made of tiny atoms. That they are immutable and indestructible. That the atoms of different chemical elements such as lead or copper have different weights, too small to be observed. Atoms combine with each other to form complicated molecules and vast collections of these molecules are not recognizable as table trees or whatever, but in the final analysis the atoms would be theIt could turn out that they are not the same all the time and that there is a historical evolutionary issue, but how can you? I see it like this, yes, it is not difficult to speculate, is it a continuous change or is it something that depends on the big.

You're the best. I think differently. I think about the possibilities, but I'm afraid to put things forward when. I see, oh, but it's darkness. I always think about the darkness, it's too big to guess because yes, it's a guess, it's not much use in guessing particular things, but you are different than I would like to discuss with you sometimes. How do you do that? Because I'm actually a little afraid of doing specs. I don't know why you grow. I don't know. I'm afraid to make specific assumptions because the moment I make that assumption. I can see seven other alternatives and since I see these other alternatives, I don't know which one to play with.

I don't like to spend a lot of energy. My choice is very simple. I do not establish any requirements. the answer is right, it's just what I'm interested in, that's the difference, yes, I am interested. I'm trying to figure out how orderly you could be, but what nature is like, look how that is, you see. I don't think you've ever found it. I said your idea is to discover what nature could be, yes, but what? I think so, even if incorrect, common ground is enthusiastically explored, but is it only shared experience and knowledge that forms a bond between working scientists and separates them from us, the interested layman or even the artist? and their scientific fields that become so specialized and them?

They are so varied, are you really saying that you have more in common with, say, a paleontologist or someone from a branch of science very far removed from your own and that you would have more in common with a playwright or a poet, especially if it is a good paleontologist because he is a good paleontologist he is not just looking at old rocks, he is looking at the history of the earth, he is looking when he stops and looks at his own fingers and knows that he has five bumps and thinks about how it evolved, with five months he got the same . like Wales etc., and we keep talking about the importance of the fact that the thumb pose, then we can start to discuss whether it is really that important for the Thumb Expo or is it the language that has been involved, the system is the symbol or the size. about the brain this is a paleontologist I can talk about these things that are close to his field dolphins have bigger brains than us they have a signaling system and you get interested in that and you start discussing everything they know about Davos and you complain that the The way the United States Navy has been doing its experiments is not correct and that we should find out more about it and they go on and on, you talk, those are things of the day, they are just as good, but you can go on and on I talk to a playwright or something like that I find it because I don't watch going to plays or something like that it's not that easy for me to talk to them I don't get much out of it I was going to say this is because you can talk to scientists in other fields presumably because you read the magazines scientific and listen to scientific gossip instead of knowing because we don't have to have magazines or gossip we think originally we think of a new idea we talk to each other and try to see something from a new point of view and we delight each other with a new point of view sight and when you talk to someone who is trying to think of something new and different and they think they have thought about whales or dolphins and they had this little thing that they thought of that is a little different than what you had thought of, like this that when you talk back and forth, he's excited about your point of view on dreams and you're excited about his.

Little observation he has made about dreams if he has thought about it, so the point is and our background. Give us a slightly different point of view. I mean in a scientific way, like I specialize in physics to say he specializes in paleontology, so his information about dreams could be deeper, more evolutionary, for example, could Molly, No? We have no way of knowing. I guess about the evolution of dreams, but I could know, for example, about other animals. He might have thought about whether other animals. dream and what the signs are and other things that I hadn't thought about I can't make it up now because I'm not the paleontologist but I think so, I always find that a good man uh, I take it all back. take it all back, good man, I talked to good men in other fields, there are certain types of men in every field that I can talk to as well as I can talk to a good scientist.

I once met a historian or history writer from France and I had a wonderful conversation with him, her name was Andrea and then I met an artist, Robert Irwin, who is a very important artist in Los Angeles in modern art and I was able to talk with him with the same depth of enthusiasm, so I take it all back if you give me. I am the right man in any field. I can talk with him. I know what the condition is. That he did everything he did to the best of his ability. That he studied every aspect of it.

As far as he strived until the end. He is not a dilettante in any way and that is why he spoke deeply as far as he could go and therefore he faces Mysteries to the end and we can talk about mystery and all that is what we have not reached, we are talking about a little bit about these periods of Fallout when things get very painful after discussing work problems, it's not at all that Feynman and Hoyle should savor the most exciting pleasure of all Revelation moments, you try all kinds of things and you hope to try.

Have you ever had a moment when, in a complicated problem, something suddenly pops into your head and you're almost certain you have to be right? Oh, yeah, I mean, this is it and then you try to figure out what the conditions were. from that moment you can do it again, for example, I worked out the helium forests theory and suddenly I saw everything they were fighting for two years and suddenly I saw everything, remember everything about it, by the way, it's psychologically fun, You can remember the color of the paper you were writing on has that, yeah, and then you wonder what the psychological condition is, well, I know at that particular moment I just looked up and said, wait a minute, it can't be so difficult, it must be very easy.

I'll step away and treat it very lightly, I'll just touch it and it'll say and there it was, how many times since then have I been walking on the beach and said, well, look, it can't be. It's so complicated that nothing happens, you know, the lights are great, but the secret shape is that missing part of the brain, right? Suddenly something turns on and yeah, and I have no idea. I've thought about it because some, some. He may have suggested that I think about that because if I could just find the formula of what condition to be in to get good ideas, yeah, and be much more efficient and happier, you know, then I didn't pay attention to what the condition is. and I have never found anything in our relationships with anything, by the way, it is Delight, it is absolutely that you go completely crazy, that drives you, how does it last today?

It's not very short, it's a very big moment, yes, yes, and then there were Minor Pleasures, yes. You work on both and more people notice it than the higher ones. In the tall fig for about three days it is like a supernova. I guess yeah, that's better, yeah, but I was going to say it's the hope of that kind of gold. it keeps you going, that can help you get through these moments of stagnation, yeah, yeah, and I think what I learned as a kid for my dad was that if you worked at these things a little bit, there would be a time when you should get there. yeah, yeah, and I had to learn that first, yeah, I've never been able to do it, yeah, and then you wonder why the devil wasn't stupid enough to not see this, that's not just you two, it's true in history from the history of science you can always look at it in historical moments and wonder why they hadn't thought about it 20 years before or 10 years there, depending on the case, it's because they nickname us in some way, it's more mysterious than it just means . that as good as you may be compared to uh and we're still very bad at it absolutely yes, yes, we are doing the best we can, yes, it's very good, yes, this is depressing and sobering, I thought, well, it's been fun .