“ ABOUT TIME ” 1962 BELL SYSTEM SCIENCE SERIES FILM w/ DR. FRANK BAXTER & FEYNMAN PART 2 XD82965b

[@Ratdaddy78]

One thing this series catches really well is the optimism and the faith in science that people had at that time. In the 60 years that followed, some of the optimism has been lost, and the relationship with science has grown much more complex. But a lot of the good remains.

[@DEATHTOTHESHITTERS]

I believe the Ghostbuster got it right.. .

[@TheTLElliott]

A fair comment, but science lost a LOT of credibility earlier in the 20th century. "Science" was hailed across the world as it brought eugenics and became a justification for killing handicapped people and other "social parasites" to improve the human gene pool. Science brought extremely violent weapons of war, including poison gas (still used in dictatorships), germ warfare, and the atomic bomb. It's a checkered history, thanks to man's nature.

[@jefffoster3557]

That "faith" in science was lost because science veered off course from observstion and repeatability into the realm of faith itself. Demonstrated here in pretending to know how life began and brainwashing folks into believing in materialism......or evolution if you will.

[@jefffoster3557]

They don't practice science anymore thats why. "Science " today is obtainable to the highest bidder.

[@itoibo4208]

probably because science was going at insane speeds because of WWII, which science helped the Allied powers win. There were a lot of unsavory things happening that would taint science later, like spraying DDT all over the land, and emissions of lead and other nasties into the land, sea, and air. A lot of science has focused on miniturization of computers and related things. Not quite as exciting as nuclear bombs, going into space and to the moon for the first time, etc.. Now it is more about sending large amounts of data around the world, cleaning up CO2, and other, less exciting endeavors, but AI has recently made things more interesting.

[@silbannacusofoxyrhynchus6096]

We used to watch this all the time in junior high. Funny, Dr. Baxter now looks young and healthy.

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

Yep, jr high, in science class, in the early 1970s, for me, too. FYI, for the young ones, "junior high", is what we use to call middle school.

[@JS-fe8sx]

Junior High is generally 7th through 9th grade. Middle School is generally 6th through 8th. But your point is well taken.@@michaelmoorrees3585

[@zefallafez]

@@michaelmoorrees3585 Jr high is 7-9 and middle school is 6-8.

[@postal_the_clown]

@@zefallafez Talk about relativity... in the same school district on my side of town 7th and 8th were called intermediate and Highschool started at 9th but just about a mile south, they were set up the way you say.

[@zefallafez]

@@postal_the_clown That's interesting.

[@scottzehrung4829]

Once again, Periscope provides a film I didn’t know I really wanted to watch. Planck’s theories always interested me.

[@LFTRnow]

The time he mentinoned @0:48 is 10^-24 sec. Planck time is estimated to be 10^-43 sec and the smallest unit measured so far is 10^-21 sec a "zeptosecond".

[@gillmartin1758]

Every once in a while, for reasons unknown, I would remember this film. They showed this in my class over 50 years ago. Pretty well known actors for the time.

[@charleslafond7146]

This film also made me want to be an engineer, a developer, a creator. - I Loved my Job! (for a short time, I worked in the Labs)

[@Elf_Hour]

Nice film that tries to establish some authority, but when calibrating a clock the issue arises of 'Accuracy vs Consistency'. Calibration is something not addressed in the film. The film actually tries to dodge the issue of 'calibration' by saying anyone can set a clock to any time they want, that it does not matter :D Food for Thought : an Atomic clock provides a very 'consistent' measurement of Time but a Sundial provides the most 'accurate'. Time is independent of measurement, after all :D

[@jaminova_1969]

"Atomic particle" = A tachyon (/ˈtækiɒn/) or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are inconsistent with the known laws of physics.

[@johnallen6945]

I was a quartermaster on a USCG Cutter in charge of navigation. We set buoys from the Canadian border to Boston. It was vital that the buoys were in their exact geographical locations as noted on sea charts. This was simple to triangulate on readings of known landmarks. But when I was transferred to the Pacific in 1977 we sailed along the 200-mile fisheries limit with no landmarks. So we used a sextant for celestial reckoning. The chronometer was essential in these cases. After some months of practice I learned how to take bearings on the position of the sun at sunrise and sunset, and the position of Venus. This is why the "Bowditch," tables were so essential. Created in the 1700's I believe in England to aid sailors. If you know what time it is you can always know precisely where you are. If you have a radio signal, NOAA broadcasts the time continuously on one frequency.

[@crabbymilton390]

I remember this film in grade school in the 1970’s. Yes Richard Deacon could go with or without hair easily.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Dood ol' "Mel Cooley" from "The Dick Van Dyke Show"... ;-) Les Tremayne was always playing military officers (remember "War of the Worlds" from the '50s?)... and the "SHAZAM!" Saturday morning show...

[@crabbymilton390]

@@igorschmidlapp6987 I remember that program in my childhood too. Don’t forget Richard Deacon as Fred Rutherford in LEAVE IT TO BEAVER.

[@davidgold5961]

I am watching this at 1.25 times normal speed

[@kenmore01]

You have messed up the continuum! Go to your room!

[@rezzer7918]

Time for you is passing on a faster rate-plane. Or, er. . something like that.

[@goshlikkrudbahr5109]

how would you know?

[@DrDeuteron]

Wild stuff

[@jedidrummerjake]

2nd and 3rd grade class was the best when our teachers put on these films! A wonderful world of wonder and fascination! ❤

[@charleslafond7146]

We are a Nation in decline, why no student seems to have passion. Make America Great Again This was an Eighth Grade Film with some Science, Math, History classroom reinforcement. It drove many of us to learn!

[@michelefritchie6198]

I've been looking for these movies! Thank you for having them!

[@marthasheahan5380]

They should study music

[@steveseamans9048]

I love Feynman’s little bit there. Wow! Pretty cool.

[@DrDeuteron]

17:14. He was so young there. When I was institutionalized, he was old and sick. But still teaching.

[@zackschooley5858]

America was so much smarter and better educated back then. Oh how We have fallen

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast (on NBC) on February 5, 1962.

[@kencory2476]

Glad to know that men are still in charge.

[@iiikaruz]

girl wtf

[@rockets4kids]

I'm surprised they didn't start with the Planck time, which is how long it would take light to travel the Planck Length.

[@scottzehrung4829]

Agreed!

[@davedixon2068]

depends on how long your plank is

[@DrDeuteron]

@@davedixon2068and how fast you can walk it.

[@DrDeuteron]

I don’t think ppl worried much about Planck units. Theorists were working on the strong and weak interaction and the hadron is spectrum, and blackholes where still speculative….quantum gravity, though Feynman dabbled, just wasn’t a big deal yet, and Planck units were ramped upwhen QG got serious.

[@RSEFX]

Mention of the big bang theory before it was "officially" declared. Fascinating to me that Poe in/around 1840 had written a paper and delivered a lecture on the very same basic idea of the universe originating in a big bang, followed by cosmic expansion and potential ultimate collapse.

[@DrTarrandProfessorFether]

From DHMIS: TIME IS A TOOL you place on a wall, or wear it on your wrist. The Past is far behind us, the future does not exist! Look at the TIME! Stop mucking about!

[@joep9171]

❤ I love the producer and actors of this film.

[@Madness832]

After watchin' this, I'm left puzzled. If these were folks, on an alien world, wouldn't they want to figure out the time dynamics of their own planet? I mean, it's probable that their own are goin' to be much different than those of Earth.

[@davedixon2068]

but they didnt know that

[@itoibo4208]

"Alright, meeting over!" Wait, I just have one question....

[@alfabsc]

Thanks for showing this old film. I was 11 the first time I saw it. I vividly remember the king asking where to set the clock, and the scientist saying it does not matter as long as all clocks are synchronized. Looking at this film now, I was surprised by the quote from the Old Testament. No scientist would dare quote the Bible now. This was analog days a long way from internet NTP synchronizing everything. A shortwave radio tuned to 5, 10, or 15KHz would give you the time down to a second.

[@itoibo4208]

obviously, the bible's wacky stories do not fit with scientific exploration and logical thinking, so less and less educated people would even consider quoting it, but knowing that a lot of people believed in religion, it was a good line to put in for them, and make them feel better about science as a threat to their culture and way of life.

[@RomoRooster]

I haven't seen this is a long time, its about time i seen it again

[@lp-xl9ld]

Wonder if Roger McGuinn saw this and thought "Hey, that idea would make a great song..." On second thought, probably not. But still...

[@pwkpwk4439]

Richard Deacon…with hair!

[@barrymccall2482]

Wig, or more precisely a toupee!

[@crabbymilton390]

At 11:30, that passenger sure looked like Ray Milland.

[@marionfelty7247]

Well at least this film finally explained that "spaghetti thingy" near a black hole. 😩

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Almost as good as Dr. Julius Sumner Miller's lessons that I watched on local PBS as a kid (and are here on YT)...

[@Crabby303]

Shame there's not more of Feynman.

[@iiikaruz]

for real :[ i wanted more of my babygirl

[@zeroonetime]

Time is dead at the inception of Timing. Timing run over Time @ 010, Creation of Evolution is Entropy.

[@Woffy.]

Just think how much a cheap Casio watch would be worth in the 1700's.

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

And after they seize from you, they'll burn you as a witch.

[@Nicks66Service]

Frank Baxter, Tralfamadorian.

[@danabrown4628]

But, didn't tralfamadorians look like bathroom plungers?

[@rezzer7918]

A direct result of drifting quantum anomalies

[@johnqpublic2718]

About dang time

[@pitdog75]

Well, they did split.

[@zambufly1]

FunFact: The producers of this film were experimenting with Heroin and Bath Salts at the time of production...

[@Coffeebreak6329]

And just where do we learn about that?😊

[@kenmore01]

Very strange. The good people of planet Q speak English and use Earth time. A shocking parallel.

[@CONCERTMANchicago]

*Today I am watching this on Quantum dot TV.* _15 years ago I learned of future QLED from planet Q_

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Great Subject . Read The Bible :) QC

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

My Theory of Relativity is not to marry your cousin... ;-P

[@heartofthunder1440]

So, can this film prove alternative timelines, events and the Bible?

[@huawietelcom4516]

People need more info like this

[@barrymccall2482]

Yes we as a country used to value the Sciences... Until the Religionists and Conspiracy theory flakes. Together with the Internet. Started making people distrustful of knowledge and truth!

[@favesongslist]

Yet without the internet you would most likely never seen this film. Alas to many "theory's" are taught as fact, Also sadly the 'scientific method' is never taught, let alone understood by many.

[@davedixon2068]

@@favesongslist that depends on your school and often your teacher

[@favesongslist]

@@davedixon2068 True, but not only mine but my children's schools did not. So glad yours did.

[@DrDeuteron]

@@favesongslistomg, stop it with the theory crap. We get that from both ends, it’s so annoying.

[@DrDeuteron]

Your comment is so misguided. If it weren’t for Christianity, there would be no science, and Big Science are the ones who took their own credibility and chucked it out the window.