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Feynman: What things really are like FUN TO IMAGINE 1

Christopher Sykes · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Fundamental physicsScientific method & science communication

What it is

A clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains heat as the jiggling of atoms and how we perceive it as hot and cold.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a short, joyful example of Feynman's accessible way of explaining physics, which a transcript cannot capture.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2013

What HN commenters said

  1. “I really recommend them. You just can't capture his joy and passion with a transcript.”

    Feynman's joy and passion that a transcript cannot capture.

    dirtyaura, 2012-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Feynman on explanations”

  2. “if you have not seen Feynman lecturing on Physics then you haven't seen a great educator”

    Feynman lecturing on physics as a great educator.

    elteto, 2012-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer”

  3. “They are short and most of them are very good”

    Short Feynman explanations from the Fun to Imagine series.

    simonsarris, 2011-10 · Recommendation · in “My Heroes”

  4. “I am extremely impressed with how accessible his explanations are”

    Remarkably accessible explanations of physics.

    furyofantares, 2013-10 · Recommendation · in “Ten Hundred Words of Science”

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Topics: feynman, atoms, heat, bbc, fun to imagine

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