From "Feynman's Lost Lecture"...

[BillyJoe]

Found it!

 

[OdderMensch]

I picked that up when I worded for another large bookstore(the one named after them lines the brits drew that get us in so much trouble ) It's great listining as well.

 

[BeholdTheTruth]

Yes, it is wonderful to actually be listening to Richard Feynman giving his lecture on the accompanying CD. And because the book prepares you to follow Feynman's logic, you get as much out of his lecture as possible. BTW, as I got to the end of the book and began to see where Feynman (and Newton) had been going over a tortuous journey from a simple beginning into and out of what seemed like an overly complicated and unnecessary midddle, it was like seeing the light of a new day after a dark night. What dawned on me was that Feynman's proof that some fundamental aspects of nature are dictated by geometry is truly awesome. I am curious as to how many others here if they read the fook would agree with me that Feynman gives even atheists added insights into both the mathematics of physics -- and (as Free Masons say) a GAOTU/"Great Architect of The Universe" that is always and in all ways , in a wholly and totally NON-religious way, "Geometrizing". Yale

 

[Stimpson J. Cat]

Yalel,

What dawned on me was that Feynman's proof that some fundamental aspects of nature are dictated by geometry is truly awesome.

Not dictated by geometry. Describable by mathematics. Did you know that algebra and geometry are isomorphic? They are simply different languages for expressing the same logical concepts. For example, some of the Trig identities are very easy to understand algebraically, but very difficult to understand geometrically, and vice-versa. But they can all be expressed either way.

I am curious as to how many others here if they read the fook would agree with me that Feynman gives even atheists added insights into both the mathematics of physics

What on Earth does atheism/theism have to do with mathematics or physics?

Dr. Stupid

 

[BeholdTheTruth]

Yalel,



Not dictated by geometry. Describable by mathematics.

Stimpsy, to the degree you are a very logical thinker, the laws of logic both describe and dictate how you think and don't think. In a similar fashion, geometry and algebra both describe and dictate how planets revolve around the sun, etc.



Did you know that algebra and geometry are isomorphic? They are simply different languages for expressing the same logical concepts. For example, some of the Trig identities are very easy to understand algebraically, but very difficult to understand geometrically, and vice-versa. But they can all be expressed either way.

Well stated, and is it not interesting and indeed very useful that two or more isomorphisms while the same in some respects can add different insights when one goes from one to another?

Dr. Stupid

 

[garys_2k]

Step right up folks, the ride is about to start.