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Entanglement… when you put it there that one way in one word it kind of completes the idea of a physicist … why he is here and what he says and shows us. Others I have witnessed as ‘entangled’ are Bucky Fuller at MIT in 1979 (after an hour or so lecture, he called for questions from the audience, but then instead of calling on anyone announced that he had several questions he thought the audience would or should ask, and so he proceeded to answer them; and Paul A. M. Dirac, in 1969 at Trinity College in Hartford gave a poetic reading on why ‘A x B doesn’t equal B x A.  He grew concerned as this was for the electron… and there were so many other particles, he worried openly what other laws of mathematics would be challenged.  He opened up the questions and there were a lot of Pratt & Whitney engineers in the audience who asked some ‘reassuring’ questions… and Dirac, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of Antimatter in 1932 seemed to be relieved.  I took some notes had a cassette tape of it, but the tape needs serious work… hopefully I can restore it to post here in not too distant future.

Entanglement in the second of 9 videos, at the end, a ‘sexy time’ question from his artist friend is other ‘Leonardo’ half exposes the Borat view of life as it is, as well as the reminder not to build too much of an empire in this life… for Feynman after the Hiroshima bomb … fearing that NY could be next and knowing that whereever he was, he knew the extent of the power of the bomb and his ‘safety’.

He very much regretted the bomb being put to Hiroshima … my question is, if they had put it to another remote island in view of Tokyo, would this have elicited a surrender from Japan, or were we looking to the invasion of Japan and the loss on millions of lives, one of which would have been my father in law, who volunteered for the invasion, and as a UDT member would be the first to land to ‘soften up’ the enemy?

We have survived 65 years without a second nuclear attack anywhere in the world, only now seemingly challenged by Iran, Al Qaida, Pakistan radicals, and maybe others like Chavez who even today blamed Haiti’s problem on ‘Nuclear tests from the USA’… which is absurd, but could further poison the young minds or further enflame his haters of the USA.  To see the whole series of 9 Videos link here now.

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summoning-ifrit:

Video 1/9 of a biography on Richard Feynman. It is told through stories about Richard as remembered by friends, family and other colleagues, as well as including many interview clips with Richard himself. The entire thing is very intimate and there are many, many humorous moments as well. Richard Feynman really was an incredible individual, an eccentric who’s unique blend of scientific intellect and artistic insight changed the world.

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Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology (creation of devices at the molecular scale). He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. Feynman was a keen popularizer of physics in both his books and lectures, notably a 1959 talk on top-down nanotechnology called There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom, and The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Feynman is also known for his semi-autobiographical books Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and What Do You Care What Other People Think?, and through books about him, such as Tuva or Bust! He was also known as a prankster, juggler, safecracker, and a proud amateur painter and bongo player. He was regarded as an eccentric and a free spirit. He liked to pursue multiple, seemingly unrelated, paths, such as biology, art, percussion, Maya hieroglyphs, and lock picking. Feynman also had a deep interest in biology… - enWikipedia

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