This isn't PO related, but for those of you who have never seen it, someone has posted the famous 50 min 1981 BBC Horizon interview with Richard Feynman on Google Video (bit of flicker for the first few seconds, but then okay).

The pleasure of finding things out

In today's short-attention span, fast-editing world such a documentary would never be made, but personally I could listen to the man speaking for hours on end.

A truly remarkable individual.

As many of you may know, I am a Feynman addict. This is a wonderful video...I also highly recommend the many books on him--probably my favorite is Gleick's Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.

I'll second that recommendation PG, although 'Genius' is maybe best left unread by those who resent the humbling of one's ego.

Freeman Dyson was in awe of him, and Gleick pretty much sums up the difference between Feynman and Gell-Mann in just a few words:

"Physicists kept finding new ways to describe the contrast between them. Murray makes sure you know what an extraordinary person he is, they would say, while Dick is not a person at all but a more advanced life form pretending to be human to spare your feelings."

I'd love to get his take on the state of the world today.

Thank you very much for that link.

His POV is very, very refreshing. He made
several comments in that link that I find are extremely prescient.

Where IS that 'Theory of Everything' ?
Here it is !

Thank you FTX, that was a wonderful start to my day. I arise early, usually around 4:30am, and watch the sunrise and listen to the tropical sounds come alive around me. This morning I also watched "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" and it fit so well with the sunrise and tropical sounds -- bringing out an additional sense of wonder at the world around me.