Niels Bohr - Atoms and Human Knowledge (Public Lecture 1957)

[@joestimemachine6454]

Feynman said Dr. Bohr was the one everyone looked up to at Los Alamos. To be the most admired scientist amongst incredible geniuses is something else.

[@HeronMarkBlade]

amazeballs. what an utter privilege to be able to enjoy this talk, thank you for upload :)

[@mizzyroro]

My favourite scientist since high school studying atomic models.

[@georgetrevortan446]

The greatest physicist. The modern atom, leader of the Copenhagen Institution of Quantum Mechanics geniuses.. He always had an open mind.

[@frankjohnson123]

Niels Bohr starts talking at 7:28

[@001firebrand]

He is a LEGEND 💖

[@prachidubey6854]

I adore him and his work 😍

[@thilohesse8883]

Wow- cool to hear him talk- thanks for posting!

[@winnieblews]

Anybody familiar with Edgar Cayces work will understand this man is a genius given the date of this lecture.

[@mr.gonzalez-colon5568]

Søren Kierkegaard, the Father of Existentialism, proposed that the subject and object (mistrust and belief) are interrelated in a paradoxical way. Doubting of God and true meaning gives substance to Faith. Niels Bohr's philosophy goes along the same lines with his Complementary principle where a contradiction between the wave nature and particle nature of atomic objects is "seen".

[@ramkitty]

Beautiful condensation,

[@syafsmith5085]

Upset that he is merely a supporting character in the Oppenheimer movie

[@rockbrian8964]

This is a priceless video

[@heckell4181]

He was totally right. Basically the moon is only there when you look at it. Smartest man ever. Thank you for expanding our understanding of reality. Smarter than Einstein.

[@fletchexe]

Technically it’s everywhere and the wave function collapses in the spot where you eventually see it. A great mind indeed.

[@See-lj6gv]

A mind that only comes once in a lifetime

[@ramkitty]

All mind comes once in a lifetime most capable

[@ElSmusso]

Interesting to hear Niels in his own voice.

[@DrPG199]

Dr. Bohr for you.

[@lordbeerus6384]

Finally, scientists are understanding that he was right! Maybe the greatest physician ever!

[@mrgonzalez-colon4815]

the greatest physicist

[@michellespremich1813]

THANKS FOR POSTING!

[@singaravelanariyan485]

I found this very interesting. But I had to download the transcript to understand what he was saying. Great man, Niels Bohr.

[@biguprochester]

The first guys voice threw me off. I was like no way he sounds likes that

[@autonomesinklusionsreferat1251]

merci.

[@robertwalker9362]

Bohr pushed and pushed Heisenberg to the brink of insanity as his academic understudy. Pushed him straight into discovering the Uncertainty Principle. As much as a titan as Einstein in the world of physics.

[@vasyavasilich7659]

I just wanna say that the guy's voice from the beginning sounds like the scientist from half-life 1

[@calvinjackson8110]

Was this lecture filmed? They did have cameras back in 1957. I want to SEE as well as hear him.

[@pierreester1470]

Well, what if 1950s cameras were only able to record at 1 frame per 3,769 seconds?

[@erronblack5015]

Well there are recorded videos of him

[@Krebssssssss]

It’s rare when you can go to war on the battlefield of ideas, with titans like Einstein, and win. Einstein HATED the randomness of quantum entanglement. “God does not play dice with the universe” he once said. Bohr proved otherwise… At least for now. Bohr’s interpretation is generally accepted as the best explanation.

[@Mr.Mister420]

mvr = nh/2(3.14)

[@mrjones3573]

Opposites are complementary

[@timmy18135]

As great as Einstein

[@timmy18135]

Audio was hard to listen to

[@calvinjackson8110]

Can we see Bohr? Where is the video?

[@CGMaat]

CAN WE HAVE THE TEXT-PLEASE !

[@NomenNominandum]

The link to the transcript is below the video.

[@tigerpisces5506]

The other scientists said Neils Borg was impossible to comprehend his broken speech pattern now I hear what they meant.

[@cmcgloughlin]

Nobody ever said that, nor did they call him Niels Borg. No one knows what you are talking about.

[@tigerpisces5506]

Teller did

[@samudithaabeywickrama5331]

@@cmcgloughlin Apparently it was hard for the audience in the lecture hall to understand Professor Bohr. Check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHbNnoKner2hnaM

[@cmcgloughlin]

@@samudithaabeywickrama5331 thanks for the link. But this link was referring to the famous speech where Heisenberg corrected Bohr on his math and the Bohr-Heisenberg collaboration started. That’s not this speech, and I’m assuming he got better at speaking by this point because I can understand him just fine.

[@samudithaabeywickrama5331]

@@cmcgloughlin Np :) I agree with you because that was in the 1920s and this speech was over 30 years later. So he must have gotten better over time.

[@stephend.4342]

Confusing and mostly incomprehensible. I understood him to say in this lecture that classical or Newtonian physics is deterministic and that quantum physics or quantum mechanics is not deterministic, because the observation affects the measurement. But the rest of his lecture seems to ramble and is incomprehensible, not because he uses any equation or any math at all but because, like many profs and very intelligent men who are very comfortable with abstractions, he cannot explain, in his halting, accented and disjointed manner of speaking English, what he is talking about.

[@CarlosElio82]

If you are interested in understanding what he said (I also had difficulty following his talk) the transcript is available using the link provided above. It is a very good talk.

[@stephend.4342]

ok thanks, I did find and read the transcript of the lecture, noting that Bohr’s biographer Abraham Pais has said that “Bohr was divinely bad as a public speaker” and often while speaking in public “…he simply forgot to say it (when he was thinking about) out loud and went on somewhere further down his road”. So now my comment is that while where Bohr sticks to quantum theory and quantum mechanics he is clear and an acknowledged giant, it is when he strayed into discussions of life, free will, politics, and openness between societies, that he strays into silliness and nonsense where he was always politely listened to and then completely ignored, for his naivety outside his field of expertise. Even in quantum mechanics I’ll stay with Einstein who held until the day he died that the uncertainties and probabilities introduced by quantum theory, while providing adequate explanations of sub atomic phenomena, is merely an averaging process which shows only a need for a deeper level of theory where, as in classical physics, we can talk of phenomena independent of any effects of the observation of the phenomenon, and the success of quantum mechanics does not mean that quantum mechanics is a true explanation of nature. Bohr could never convince Einstein otherwise. [e-mail]

[@_____......_____]

read the transcript, even if you can't then its not subject matter that's incomprehensible might be it's your cognition and comprehension level.

[@Navy-Seal-Ninja90]

Niels Bohr>Einstein.

[@rosenrot32]

The boring world of Niels Bohr.

[@ARealPersonNotABot]

The boring word of Niels Bohr.

[@lukegratrix]

I speak English. I can't understand

[@lukegratrix]

But Dirac followed to some extent, so I'll try listening to the nonsense