The Pleasure of the Inconceivable Nature of Nature: A Feynman Remix Featuring Joan Feynman
By Maria Popova
After his fantastic Sagan Series and the first installment in the Feynman Series, mashup maestro Reid Gower is back with a second Feynman Series installment, featuring Joan Feynman. At about the two-minute mark begins my second favorite love story in science. (Here is my favorite.)
It’s all really there. That’s what really gets you. But you gotta stop and think about it to really get the pleasure about the complexity, the inconceivable nature of nature.”
Much of the raw material comes from the Feynman films of documentarian Christopher Sykes, who is largely responsible for elevating Feynman from a successful scientist to a cultural hero worthy of being nicknamed The Great Explainer.
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Published April 5, 2012
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/04/05/feynman-series-reid-gowan/
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