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inconditus
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Richard Feynman’s Caltech Graduation Address on In...
Your anecdote about the bowling ball is (AFAIK) incorrect, you're thinking about Walter Lewin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaALPa7Dwdw
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pm90
on June 11, 2012
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It was done by Feynman first (I had heard of it in 2007, before this video was published, when I was finding about Feynman after reading his classic "Surely you're .."). I don't think Lewin acknowledged that though
inconditus
on June 11, 2012
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Walter Lewin's been doing it since 198x, probably earlier.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1989-03-12/news/ga-1006_1_feynma...
> He first encountered Feynman as a freshman in 1961 > On the first day of class, Scott recalled,
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