All you need is "to have an infinite amount of intelligence".
July 21, 2018 1:21 AM   Subscribe

I am going to give what I will call an elementary demonstration. But elementary does not mean easy to understand. Elementary means that very little is required to know ahead of time in order to understand it, except to have an infinite amount of intelligence. There may be a large number of steps that hard to follow, but to each does not require already knowing the calculus or Fourier transforms. -- Richard P. Feynman
This video recounts a lecture by Richard Feynman giving an elementary demonstration of why planets orbit in ellipses. See the excellent book by Judith and David Goodstein, "Feynman's lost lectureā€¯, for the full story behind this lecture, and a deeper dive into its content. minutephysics takes some time off and lets 3Blue1Brown tell the story of Feynman's Lost Lecture. Orbital mechanics the Elementary way...
posted by zengargoyle (5 comments total) 42 users marked this as a favorite
 
Beautiful....
posted by DreamerFi at 2:47 AM on July 21, 2018


Minute physics and 3blue1brown are two great YouTuber tastes, that taste great together.
posted by jonnay at 5:23 AM on July 21, 2018 [2 favorites]


Those animations are great. There's no way I could have understood Feynman without them.
(Not having infinite intelligence)
posted by MtDewd at 7:42 AM on July 21, 2018 [1 favorite]


3blue1brown is one of the best explainers of physics anywhere. Tying it in with some physics is icing on the proverbial cake!
posted by notsnot at 10:15 AM on July 21, 2018 [1 favorite]


There's no way I could have understood Feynman without them.

I wonder what Feynman could have achieved assisted by a great team of animators and a youtube account...
posted by DreamerFi at 10:43 AM on July 21, 2018


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