Posted on 02/19/2026 1:56:56 PM PST by rexthecat
Richard Feynman’s physics reveals why aliens cannot reach Earth. From the absolute limit of the Speed of Light to the Fermi Paradox, discover why Interstellar Travel is impossible and why we are truly alone in the universe. …
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Stop lying.
not a bad facsimile. and the science is good, except for the darwin bs, not bad at all. even the voice is pretty good.
gosh. i miss that man. one of my childhood heros along with Von Neumann; got me looking into science and engineering. if you want to understand real science—how it works; how it’s done; how it advances through gifted individuals—understand that man’s accomplishments. tough i know, but worth it.
I hope everyone knows that this is AI Feynman and not necessarily his actual opinion.
“In a billions-year old universe, there may be, or have been/will be, beings smarter than Richard Feynman.”
Yes, but not many.
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I calculate 2,879 years to get there at 1,000,000 mph. Still more time than I have to spare.
Speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren’t going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sorts of parties.
The physicists encountered repeated failures while trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralyzing distances between the farthest stars. They eventually announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.
Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning in this way: “If such a machine is a virtual impossibility, it must have finite improbability. So all I have to do, in order to make one, is to work out how exactly improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!” He did this and managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air. Unfortunately, shortly after he was awarded the Galactic Institute’s Prize for Extreme Cleverness, he was lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists on the ground that he has became the one thing they couldn’t stand most of all: “a smart arse”.
I don’t believe many of them are clinically insane.
Most of them are so abysmally ignorant that they’re easily blinded by bullstuff.
A few of them are clever grifters who have figured out how to make a buck peddling bullstuff to the abysmally ignorant.
But high ranking government officials have been hinting at "disclosure" for the past 10 years. They wouldn't lie to us.
Gravity is tied directly to space/time in general relativity.
Break that and time is no longer the issue.
Feynman was not able to make it to Tannu Tuva, so naturally he doesn’t think anyone can make it as far as Proxima Centauri.
Not everyone agrees with this hypothesis. Newtonian Laws are only applicable up to the speed of light. As long as we are limited to sub-light velocity, then we are shooting in the dark, (literally).
Now... something far more interesting... Special relativity, theories of quantum gravity, Hubble tension, and how little we know about how the Universe works...
Because evolutionists said life evolved all across the universe
“What makes it impossible?”
The Impossibility Factor. Duh!
I believe you're just a tad bit off. It would take ~2,900 years to reach Alpha Centauri traveling at 1 million MPH.
However, that does translate to ~25 million hours.
A Generational Ship would possibly be a feasible technology we can attain to get to the closest star in many lifetimes, but it's not necessarily impossible, even at our level of tech knowledge.
Oh no, not again...
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Youtube is bursting with AI-Feynman videos. Many are interesting but — enough already!
When we figure out gravity, we’ll probably figure out time/energy/mass.
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