Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' 1: Jiggling Atoms
Physicist Richard Feynman thinks aloud about atoms and how they jiggle, and how we perceive that jiggling as 'hot' and 'cold'. From the BBC TV series 'Fun to Imagine'(1983). You can now watch higher quality versions of some of these episodes at www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/
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Follow us on www.facebook.com The winning idea of the fun theory award, submitted by Kevin Richardson, USA. Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do? This was the question Kevin's idea answered and it was so good that Volkswagen, together with The Swedish National Society for Road Safety, actually made this innovative idea a reality in Stockholm, Sweden.
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50 Respones to "Feynman 'Fun to Imagine' 1: Jiggling Atoms"
Feynman has such a way of explaining things....its mesmerizing....Feynman's lectures must be compulsory at schools world over.
March 13, 2011 at 3:00 AM
@justinllalor
You lose,
Love needs more upholding than hate and fear, because at the current world its so easy to be sad and angry and negative all the time, that's the reason you are focusing on the 6 people that disliked this video rather than the 1,297 people who liked the video.
March 13, 2011 at 3:11 AM
At least 6 people are retarded in this world.
March 13, 2011 at 3:17 AM
Easy to imagine
March 13, 2011 at 3:25 AM
@kiewefrog
I shall reward your faith: Italian or Asian noodles?
March 13, 2011 at 4:18 AM
Jesus was the greatest mind of all? The Flying Spaghetti Monster was the single greatest sentient mind of all time. Ramen
March 13, 2011 at 4:29 AM
6 people really wanted to see what clever dislike comments people had.
March 13, 2011 at 4:59 AM
the want of the water drop to touch the other reembles very much our want to survive and eat and sex don't it
March 13, 2011 at 5:32 AM
@guyNbluejeans Jesus was a great mind? What an insult to physics! Here are these brilliant minds working hard to discover facts of the universe and you say the one, worthless, unknown facet of some idiotic religion was a brilliant individual?
March 13, 2011 at 5:32 AM
hahaha the top comment i hilourios
March 13, 2011 at 6:05 AM
Perhaps all rubberbands need to snap; there as to trac, the infinite the lap, and anable the future to make a map of the cat.
March 13, 2011 at 6:24 AM
@majestic93 I've been responding to you, is that stupid enough?
March 13, 2011 at 6:51 AM
@guyNbluejeans Why don't you go do something stupid so that you die and physically ascend to heaven?
March 13, 2011 at 7:19 AM
@majestic93 You should consider changing your name from majestic to comical, it would be fitting considering ..
March 13, 2011 at 7:50 AM
@guyNbluejeans And Newton didn't know one millionth of the things we know today.
By the way, who created god?
March 13, 2011 at 8:44 AM
@majestic93 And the greatest mind of them all (save for Jesus) was Newton, who was anything but an atheist.
March 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM
@guyNbluejeans Yeah, imagine that. The greatest mind since Bohr, Planck, Einstein (and so on) was an atheist...
March 13, 2011 at 9:51 AM
@majestic93 After I posted my comment I went to Wikipedia and learned that he was an avowed atheist, so for that reason I have to take back what I said.
Now removing the post.........:-(
March 13, 2011 at 10:48 AM
@guyNbluejeans Very true indeed!
March 13, 2011 at 11:32 AM
I wanna be this guys' kid...think about a bedtime story:) O...M...G...!
March 13, 2011 at 12:29 PM
To be honest, I think that with over 1185 "likes" it is very likely that the 5 "dislikes" just came by accident...
March 13, 2011 at 12:59 PM
6:45 ... love the ending. school takes the fun out of everything, as well as takes the will to learn out of everything.
March 13, 2011 at 1:49 PM
@Beuma Looks like an eyeglass case.
March 13, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Is it a cell phone in Richard's pocket?... I don't when the cell phone came up, but 1983 seems a little early for it....
March 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM
Is it a cell phone in Richard's pocket?... I don't when the cell phone came up, but 1983 seems a little early for it....
March 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM
@Chicharrero91 I'm agree, my comment said something like yours. So I think that people should not value the money they earn by going slowly, but you should value the lives that do not threaten.
March 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM
we have speed cameras in England. Except the money goes to the government. And they make a lot of money, so they put up more cameras that make even more money. In fact the cameras don't just log speed, London is a "Congestion Zone". When you enter the city, a photo is taken of your car and you must pay £10 per day. Very Corrupt!
March 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM
here's the thing, considering how inaccurate speedometers can be, they would just be ticketing the people that are DRASTICALLY speeding. which is what a speed cam does. the difference is, they are taking that money and using it to reward the people that truly obey the law. i'd expect that they would be only entering the people that are unquestionably following the law. either way, they would be ticketed for a traffic cam, but this way people have an incentive to avoid that gray area.
March 13, 2011 at 4:02 PM
i guess Kevin thinks *statutory* law is the law of the land. (oops!:) Kevin thinks that victimless crimes should be punished by taking money from citizens and giving it to the state. good for him: he paid attention in prison cam-- i mean school. Kevin Richardson: winner of the Stasi Society Award. the Rothschilds thank you, Kevin.
March 13, 2011 at 4:12 PM
@westborn fine
March 13, 2011 at 4:34 PM
@zerge83
If you're going to be this defensive, at least try to be right. The average doesn't tell you at all how fast MOST cars were driving. It would be 32 even if 600 cars were going 28 and 400 were going 38, but in this extreme scenario NONE were going 32. Your new example is still an average, if very conditioned (28-36km/h, no slowing traffic, no real speeders...), not like you first statement 'omg 32 in a 30 zone', implying NOBODY was even speeding all that much. That's how it's different.
March 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM
@Neverregretperson
Here in Europe we understand what people are saying, it has better effect!
listen carefully from 0:55
March 13, 2011 at 5:15 PM
@westborn
congrats, wow you must be really smart to find out that one. You know it's a number that indicates how fast were MOST cars passing, yes there have been ones with 36 and some with 28, but they are the extreme cases, MOST cars were passing with 30-34 that gives an average of 32. Now these numbers may changed to 34-26, and 28-32 which means MOST cars are now 2km/h slower. How is that different from what I said?
March 13, 2011 at 6:00 PM
@lluitajove money, fun, it doesnt matter.. live or die, that really matters
March 13, 2011 at 6:53 PM
@zerge83
Congrats, you don't know what 'average' means.
March 13, 2011 at 6:53 PM
People do it 'cause the money... this isn't fun
March 13, 2011 at 6:58 PM
The camp music in this video makes this idea appear totally gay
March 13, 2011 at 7:15 PM
The Speed Camera Lottery: Making highway robbery more fun since 1959.
March 13, 2011 at 7:17 PM
Speeding is not a crime.
March 13, 2011 at 8:14 PM
it's not exactly "fun" if there's a cash incentive... then it's just about money.
March 13, 2011 at 9:13 PM
That's an awesome idea, but I think people here would go apeshit and QQ if anything closely resembling photo radar is set up where I live again.
March 13, 2011 at 9:57 PM
it should also work with people who text and drive
March 13, 2011 at 10:28 PM
1:59 ZERO????
March 13, 2011 at 11:11 PM
This is like a reverse-tragedy-of-the-commons...
(People slow down to win, but as more people try to win, chances and payout go further and further down, decreasing the incentive.)
Still a great idea though, as half of it is psychological, and it's also less likely the public will feel bitter about the radar checkpoints when most of the time (when passing through at normal speeds), they actually have positive feelings about their presence :)
March 14, 2011 at 12:04 AM
That works because the people think that it's a radar! XD
March 14, 2011 at 12:30 AM
@RandomnessUK if the money motivates them to stop speeding, once the money is gone (because no speeding tickets are being paid) those people will speed once more, and people will be "killed on the streets" again. Come to think of it this system (if it works as intended) is doomed to be a paradox.
March 14, 2011 at 12:52 AM
Nice how they didn't show anybody winning that "jackpot" part of the lottery. Yet another money grab.
Also, 25 km/h is absurdly slow, our side streets in an extremely busy neighbourhood with houses flanking both sides is 50 km/h.
March 14, 2011 at 1:14 AM
Here in Saudi Arabia, we have cameras if you exceed the speed limit , you're fined !!!!
It has better effect , though
March 14, 2011 at 2:05 AM
These people didn't slow down because they thought it would lead to cash. They slowed down because The Man was watching and was going to give them a citation.
Thank you, VW, for proposing to monitor my every action and veil it all in "fun."
March 14, 2011 at 2:50 AM
omg, pepole really dare to go 32 where 30 is allowed, those damn reckless speedsters!!
March 14, 2011 at 3:40 AM
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