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Richard Feynman "Tiny Machines" Nanotechnology Lecture - aka "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"

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Materials scienceFundamental physics

What it is

A recording of Richard Feynman's talk on the possibilities of manipulating matter at very small scales, widely seen as an early vision of nanotechnology. This is a later version of his 1959 "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" lecture.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it when discussing nanobots and microscale physics, including how things behave at tiny scales.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “there's a good richard feynam video about how things feel when they're that small”

    Explains how things feel at tiny scales

    pazimzadeh, 2026-04 · Recommendation · in “A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?”

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Topics: richard feynman, nanotechnology, small-scale physics, micromachines, physics lecture

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