About
In this archival footage from BBC TV, celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they're made of. This accessible, enchanting conversation in physics reveals a teeming nano-world that's just plain fun to imagine.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- BBC TV
- Speaker
- Richard Feynman
- Year
- 1983
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Physics, Astronomy and space
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
- TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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