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This guy ,Richard Feynman, has long been a person that I revered, but most people have no idea who he is if you mention his name. It's too bad because all the modern world things that we enjoy so much wouldn't be here if it were not for this man, just as nuclear bombs and power plants wouldn't be here if it were not for Albert Einstein He is one of the biggest contributors to the theory of Quantum Mechanics who's mathematics are necessary to allow all the electronics, computer, laser, chemical, optical, communication, and more industries to existence. I came across the video series and found it to be really good, it's nice to see him talk about the simple thing people can relate to in such a candid way. In the first video, when he describes what he thinks like and how he enjoys it so much, is exactly how I think, it's one of the reasons why I must use my GPS weather i know where I'm going or not, because I get in such deep thought that I will space out my turns and my GPS tells me when to turn. We need people like this, to be our children s role models instead of people like Tiger Woods (poon hound) or some other unscrupulous sports figure (not hard to find seems to be no shortage). I like how he described the cycle of energy of the tree, I've never heard it described that way, it so simplified a abstract idea that is hard for people to understand. I was just trying to explain it to my daughters the other day and even I couldn't understand my own description and it's such an important one for us to understand given our worlds present predicament. You know, trees and wood are not the only things that when burned give up the CO2,light, and heat that was stored up in them, coal, oil, and natural gas are all basically trees (and other vegetation) that were concentrated into their present day forms threw compression over time buried in the earth from ancient times. So we are not just burning the stored up CO2 from today but the stored up CO2 from millions of years ago as well. At the same time, we are killing the trees of today that are actively taking the CO2 out of the air and breaking apart the carbon from the oxygen atoms and combining them with minerals via sun light and heat to form the cellulose of the tree.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", an autobiograpy, is a good read as well.
He was a Nobel Prize winner in physics but, otherwise, just a regular guy.
The book tells about his love for his college sweetheart who develops tuberculosis. Because her health is so fragile, their marriage remains unconsummated for months after their wedding until, at her insistence, they make love because she wanted to give him a child. Sadly, she died soon thereafter.
He also includes an anecdote to show how ignorant everyone was of the dangers of radiation even years after the successful atomic weapons test. They used to display a ball of a radioactive substance coated with chrome at Lawrence Livermore Lab (or was it CIT[?]). Visitors could touch it and feel the heat that was generated by radioactive decay.
Needless to say, the death rate by cancer of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project was far above that of the nation as a whole. ---------- Cordially, YOGI
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
He may be a regular guy, but his understanding of quantum mechanics isn't regular. I have a book that covers one of his classes where he teaches quantum electro dynamics and the way he describes it is just as clear and simplifying as how he explains these simple thermal dynamics concepts in these talks.
Some more of my most favorite physicists are Steven hawking, who has had tumultuous marital relationships as well, if you can believe it being in the condition hes in.
Another one, and I have personal knowledge of this guy because I used to have to mow his lawns and plant his gardens around his house as a 16 yo, Leon Lederman, a experimental physicists who was director of the Fermilab accelerator lab for many years. his book, "the God Particle" is one of my favorites. he's is an older guy with gray almost white hair, but he married a smoken hot babe, really out of character looking at him. She was into horses, and society, and being a royal pain in everyone s ass. She really just liked living on the lab like a queen, where everyone had to cater to her, she wielded his power more than he. He was just a really nice guy who was completely dedicated to his experiments. A funny story, we were mowing his lawn at the big old farm house given to him to live on site and when we broke for lunch,. everything was fine. We come back, and one of the mowers were missing, after some time we found it way out in middle of a field, stuck and broken. It turned out she took it upon herself to take this commercial sized mower and mow a path for her horses in the field and when she broke the mower deck and got it stuck, she just walked away with out telling anyone, leaving the blame to fall on the poor kid who was driving it, fucken bitch. Another one was when she took it upon herself to put her input in the committee who picked the artistic features of the various sculptures on the lab, as if she has any meaningful input. The sculptures are inspired by people the likes of Enrico Fermi not some broad suck en the directors dick. She insisted on this sculpture who design was rather expensive and hard to do, just wanted it, and promised that when completed that this sculpture was supposed to make some weird sound when the wind went threw it, well they built it, and it doesn't do a fucken thing, and has no other significance or meaning to the lab.
I like the fact that these great contributors to Science are regular guys, that makes them even better role models because then regular kids can imagine themselves being regular guys contributing extraordinary things to the world, instead of some freak basketball player who's only real talent was growing to some extremely tall height and retaining his agility and being nursed threw school so as he can make other people millions of dollars.
revere Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary Jump to: navigation, search Contents [hide] * 1 English o 1.1 Verb + 1.1.1 Translations o 1.2 Noun [edit] English [edit] Verb Infinitive to revere Third person singular reveres Simple past revered Past participle revered Present participle revering to revere (third-person singular simple present reveres, present participle revering, simple past and past participle revered)
1. (transitive) to regard someone or something with great awe or devotion 2. (transitive) to venerate someone or something as an idol
