VIDEO: The Universe in a Glass of Wine

Tuesday, May 13, 201412:54 AM(View: 9216)
VIDEO: The Universe in a Glass of Wine
This is an interesting brief lecture by the great Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, on the connectedness of everything to everything else in the unverise. The brilliant Richard Feynman has earned the moniker "the Great Explainer" for his talents of explaining scientific concepts in accessible layman terms.




"A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he said that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look in glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let us give one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!"
Send comment
Your Name
Your email address
Friday, March 21, 2014(View: 10842)
The lower atmospheres on Jupiter and Saturn, planetary scientists suspect, may literally be raining diamonds.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014(View: 8116)
"Synthetic biology focuses on creating technologies for designing and building biological organisms."
Tuesday, March 11, 2014(View: 9746)
"The Blu-ray player under your TV isn’t just for playing movies—it can also test your food and water to see if it’s safe."
Monday, March 10, 2014(View: 8197)
"How would you die if you fell into a black hole? The answer could revolutionize the fundamental laws of nature (from NOVA)"
Tuesday, March 4, 2014(View: 7098)
"It's the first time scientists have seen such a system in a biological system — one that allows materials to behave like both a crystal and a liquid."
Wednesday, February 26, 2014(View: 7236)
"New research suggests a strong link between the powerful smell of pine trees and climate change."
Sunday, February 23, 2014(View: 8368)
"How do we two-legged, top-heavy pillars of flesh and bone possibly stay upright while in motion?"
Sunday, February 16, 2014(View: 6378)
"Everything you wanted to know about the edge of the solar system-and more"
Sunday, February 16, 2014(View: 6750)
"A blindfolded Neil deGrasse Tyson is led to a top-secret “diamond farm” to investigate breakthroughs in the engineering of artificial diamonds."
Saturday, February 15, 2014(View: 7388)
"US scientists have developed small robots that behave much like termites."
Saturday, February 15, 2014(View: 6713)
"Using high-resolution satellite pictures and image-processing software to automatically detect the great mammals at or near the ocean surface."
Friday, February 14, 2014(View: 6691)
"(CNN) -- For the first time, scientists have created human lungs in a lab -- an exciting step forward in regenerative medicine."