Episode #252: The Character of Physical Law - Seeking New Laws

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 129 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this final episode of our book report on The Character of Physical Law, we go through Dr. Feynman's final lecture, Seeking New Laws, in which he describes how science works, and the methods physicists must use to attempt to discover new fundamental aspects of the natural world.

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

Get the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Character-Physical-Law-MIT-Press/dp/0262533413

Get the new Fifty Dollar Dynasty album "Precession" here:
https://www.fiftydollardynasty.com/

Support the band here:
https://www.patreon.com/fiftydollardynasty

Support the podcast here:
https://www.patreon.com/brothersoftheserpent

Executive Producers:
Philip Baklamov
Matt Shy
Peter Shell
Frank M.

Associate Executive Producer:
Daniel Gandy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Feynman Lectures on the Character of Physical Law, Part 5.
0:07.6	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.
0:23.4	This is Brothers of the Serpent podcast, and we are coming to you, not live from the 10 by 10 by 10, Tanger, Keep of Science,
0:30.9	where we are nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau.
0:36.2	And I think this will be the final episode in the Character of Physical Law series.
0:45.1	We just have the final chapter or lecture to go through seeking new laws, lecture number seven.
0:51.3	And then some of the stuff in the foreword, which was written in 2002
0:55.6	and purports to update some of the things that Feynman said in the 60s.
1:02.0	We'll see.
1:02.6	All right.
1:03.6	About that.
1:04.6	How's going, everybody?
1:05.6	I just got back from a coast trip with GMA and Tyrell.
1:10.2	And... Does that count as a rock and roll update that's the
1:14.8	rock and roll update we brought all of our equipment and we didn't jam we drank course not we drank
1:22.1	a mountain of beers and I fished all day. Excellent.
1:32.0	I saw you were watering the underside of your car.
1:32.8	I was, yeah.
1:33.9	With the sprinkler.
1:35.7	Yeah, that's the old stash method.
1:36.5	Yep, yep.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brothers of the Serpent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brothers of the Serpent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.