Why Entropy Feels Like Time (Feynman’s Deepest Insight)

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• MR

  @mrbilitee · 5 months ago (edited)

  This flood of “Feynman Lectures” is greatly disrespectful to the legacy of this brilliant man. The person(s) behind this flood discovered that whatever essays and lectures Feynman could have copyrighted, he chose not to. He was deeply concerned that the owning (by copyright) of scientific thought worked against the free sharing of ideas (and more to the point, tended to produce the “publish or perish” commercial aspect of scientific knowledge.<br><br>The person(s) behind this flood may occasionally admit that these are AI creations. A more honest announcement would include disclosure of the possible monetization of Feynman’s uncopyrighted works. This is not what Feynman intended by leaving them free for circulation.<br><br>But it doesn’t end there. Many of these “lectures” are dressed up visually with a kind special effects that would make a precocious teenager proud. If the general issue of taking his forbearance from copyrighting is making Feynman turn over in his gave, this would have him vomiting in it.

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• MA

  @markwilliams974 · 1 month ago

  I feel these lectures are useful. Sure, they are AI generated but the principles are valid enough. And they make us think about how and why in many topics. Isn’t that better than playing video games and listening to rap?

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• JO

  @Joseph-l9b2n · 3 months ago

  Yes and they even disrespect him by having him speak in a ridiculous accent sometimes

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• MI

  @michaelberg7201 · 1 month ago (edited)

  There&apos;s something really flawed about using a box of gas to explain entropy, at least in the sense that entropy is the same as time, because when we look at the box of gas and see all the air molecules on one side but not on the other side, and then say, well, the laws of physics work and the molecules bounce around, this implies motion, and motion implies a direction of time. Motion is a distance over time. So you can&apos;t just assume that entropy creates time in this scenario, because this scenario requires time to move in one specific direction.

• NS

  @nssiegel1 · 1 month ago

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• FR

  @FredDregger · 1 month ago

  Time is an artificial construct created by humans to track their day and moments in their lives - it can also be used as a comparison tool for understanding rates compared to our day ex. Miles travelled per 1 hour of our day . However would time even exist if earth was a rouge planet drifting in space instead of orbiting the sun - there would be no hour or day or month or year. The rate of entropy is the real clock of the universe. Btw to go back in time would mean to undo the entropy of the universe to that point - totally impossible - like the broken egg reassembling itself - even though the physics does support this, it is unlikely &nbsp;- extremely unlikely - the apple in the box is an example of this however the universe is not in a box