Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.925

   > Wheeler," he always called him Professor Wheeler. I called him Johnny. Feynman says, "I remember one day Professor Wheeler and I were doing a calculation together. Professor Wheeler went from this step to that step. I didn't see how he got there. He showed me. As he'd showed me, he said, 'Little steps for little people.'" Now, John Wheeler was the most polite person I ever knew. I never saw him do anything impolite like that. Now, it's clear that Feynman was full

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/feynman/003-wheeler-he-always-called-him-professor-wheeler.md

2. 02 · yt0.783

   But   the fact that he could was an indication that he  really himself was quite deep in the mathematics. Brian: That is so interesting. Kip: He could outthink Feynman. Of course,   he had more a number of years behind him.  Feynman was just getting started. But still ... Brian: But Feynman is ... Kip: Feynman is phenomenal. Brian: If I can just give   one story that you may be familiar with too.  I was taking quantum field theory with Sidney   Coleman. Sidney Coleman, I think this was an act  that he did every year that he talked qua…

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3. 03 · yt0.775

   Kip: This is- Kip: The influence on Wheeler at that time. Brian: I see. I see. Kip: This was probably '67,   I think. I think it was a year before John started  using the phrase. John understood the power of   words. He spent a lot of time crafting phrases  and words to describe things. As he described   it to me, he liked to lie in a warm bathtub, and  just think about what is the right phrase to use.  Now, it could be that he was triggered  by that a year or so earlier,   and didn't remember it at all, but in the  back of …

   yt/PTs--eFrzGo-greatest-mysteries-of-gravity-brian-greene-kip-thorne-world-/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.742

   Ordinary folks, Kripke claims, might know that Feynman was a physicist, but they will not know anything besides the name that would serve to differentiate Feynman from any other physicist they have heard of. An indefinite description like a physicist will not suffice, however, to pick out any particular individual in the world. Even a physicist named ‘Feynman’ won’t do, at least in a world where two physicists bear this name. At best, this sort of description will pick out an arbitrary member of a class of individuals, not the right one consistently. And yet, as Kripke points out, it seems per…

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5. 05 · yt0.724

   But Dick Feynman was really good  at doing these calculations and getting to the   right answer. And then he would go back and say  he didn't think anybody would be impressed by the   fact that he got to the right answer by doing this  complicated calculation. He thought people would   only be impressed if he could come up with this  really simple kind of intuitive explanation of   what was going on, which he often managed to come  up with. Then he would throw away the calculation,   never tell anybody about the calcula…

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6. 06 · yt0.722

   Brian: Now, one thing in   that book, which is interesting to me is  that when physicists typically learn the   mathematical methods of general relativity,  differential geometry to be concrete,   most physicists learn it in a so called  coordinate form, which is the more nuts and   bolts ingredients necessary to really carry out  certain kinds of calculations. You're at great   pains in that book to do both the coordinate  version, and the coordinate-free version,   which is perhaps maybe the way more mathema…

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7. 07 · _intake0.719

   - **The Quantum Labyrinth - Richard Feynman & John Wheeler - Quantum Reality & Time** - `yt/KCcX03Q6Lkw-the-quantum-labyrinth-richard-feynman-john-wheeler-quantum-r/transcript.txt` - … Niels <<Bohr>> Niels <<Bohr>> was one of the fathers of <<quantum>> theory a Danish physicist and wheeler had worked with Niels <<Bohr>> over in …

   _intake/canon-profiles/bohr-niels.md

8. 08 · yt0.718

   Brian: Yeah, I can imagine. Kip: His&nbsp;&nbsp; apology and Oppenheimer didn't... And so it was a&nbsp; momentous moment in the history of science that,&nbsp;&nbsp; of miscommunication between these two great men. Brian: And was&nbsp;&nbsp; it an arrogance on Oppenheimer's or just a- Kip: No, no. Brian: ...feeling bad? Kip: I don't think so. Brian: Or what do you think the emotion was? Kip: I think he&nbsp;&nbsp; was just ... I don't know. I didn't know. I&nbsp; knew Wheeler better than I knew Oppenheimer.&nbsp;&nbsp; Certainly Oppenheimer is capable of arrogance,&nbsp; but I don't think so. …

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9. 09 · yt0.715

   Well, sure, if somebody proves the theorem, I mean, Andrew Wiles proved that there were no x to the n, that you can have a sum of two squares which is another square, but there's no other power which the sum of two of that powers gives you another thing which has the same power I mean, that's mathematical statement and that would be true. Whether the universe had different physical laws and it's completely independent is a mathematical statement is objectively true. How we come across to understand why it is true, maybe very difficult question, very few people really understand, how many peopl…

   yt/0nOtLj8UYCw-quantum-consciousness-debate-does-the-wave-function-actually/transcript.txt

10. 10 · openalex0.711

    Feynman — cited 278x (1989) What Do You Care What Other People Think? — T. C. Holyoke Richard P. Feynman — cited 263x (1971) APPLICATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS TO LIQUID HELIUM — Richard P. Feynman — cited 250x (2018) Quantum Electrodynamics — Richard P. Feynman — cited 248x (1985) <i>‘‘Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!’’ Adventures of a Curious Character</i> — Richard P. Feynman Penny D. Sackett — cited 232x (1987) Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics — Richard P. Feynman Steven Weinberg — cited 209x (2018) Statistical Mechanics — Richard P. Feynman — cited 202x (1966) The Development o…

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