Richard Feynman Fire

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly cites it as an elegant, eye-opening explanation of fire and photosynthesis and as an example of Feynman's infectious love of knowledge.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

nebulajr

Topic

physics of fire

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2010–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I don't want to offend anyone but that article was extremely boring (I did end up reading it). I suppose I'd seen the Richard Feynman video on fire and trees quite recently beforehand and was in an intolerant mood. But it's impossible to stay in …

• If anyone wants to know the answer to that question, Richard Feynman explains it wonderfully: (He starts talking about trees at 2:00, but his explanation of fire is equally elegant!) [VIDEO] My first instinct was to say that a tree's mass comes from dead stars. …

• Checkout this explanation of fire by Richard Feynman - its a really eye opening perspective [VIDEO] He explains the light of a fire is just the light of the Sun, it's just been stored in the wood