Episode #251: The Character of Physical Law - Entropy and Uncertainty

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Continuing our book report on The Character of Physical Law, we read through the 5th and 6th lectures, The Distinction of Past and Future and Probability and Uncertainty. These are discussions on entropy and quantum mechanics, done in Dr. Feynman's unique style.

See the full set of lectures here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncQLg_H7f6T9yJmJ2aCIBUHS

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https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413

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Here's the black hole video Kyle mentions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E

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0:00.0	The Feynman Lectures on the Character of Physical Law.
0:07.2	Part 4.
0:08.7	You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent Podcast.
0:19.2	And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, angels and demons and monsters and serpents.
0:23.5	This is Brothers of the Serpent Podcasts, and we are coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10.
0:30.1	Tantube of Science, where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed, high atop the very dry Edwards Plateau.
0:40.7	Dry and crunchy.
0:42.8	Dusty bones are very dusty.
0:47.1	We need some rain down here.
0:50.7	I mean, we've been getting a little bit, but it's just not like we normally do.
0:56.3	I mean, we missed all of the spring storms.
0:59.5	Right?
0:59.8	I feel like we normally in the spring we get thunderstorms.
1:02.8	Yeah, we've only had like 3.2 inches all year.
1:05.8	Yeah.
1:06.9	So.
1:07.7	At the vineyard where the weather station is.
1:10.2	Right.
1:11.9	So it's been very dry.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:15.8	And we, it's been so dry that the creek stopped running, Turtle Creek.
1:22.5	Oh, yes.
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