@big.rooney.77: 🧠🔥 A BBC INTERVIEWER ASKED RICHARD FEYNMAN WHY TWO MAGNETS REPEL EACH OTHER IN 1983. He refused to give a simple answer—and what he explained instead became one of the best seven minutes on critical thinking ever filmed. 🤯👏🏾#viral #trending #reels #fyp #truth
He is not being condescending, as many comments here state. He is being pedagogical.
He recognized that it is an excellent question. He not only responded to the question, but he also seized the opportunity to teach so much more about physics and the philosophy of science.
2026-10-20 21:04:11
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Karen Gillan :
Me when my husband asks why I didn’t do the dishes
2026-10-20 16:53:24
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Ashe Wednesday :
Short answer: he doesn’t know either.
2026-10-20 13:55:49
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ogier79 :
This comment section is a masterclass in I didn't get the point.
2026-10-20 18:04:52
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ivebeencalledcrazy :
this comment section affirms the dead internet theory.
2026-10-20 17:07:56
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Tzonzle :
If you follow any of these queries deep enough, you’ll always eventually reach “I don’t know”.
2026-10-20 17:47:55
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Sam Barton :
We need more posts like these on social media. Opposed to the mindless dribble we doom scroll through daily…
2026-10-20 14:58:01
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twevaweva :
this is why analogies when used to explain novel concepts is asinine
2026-10-21 00:57:17
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Stu Art :
the why is from experience, every time similar poles of magnets have been brought together in the past they have repelled each other
2026-10-21 01:02:49
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RESS987 :
Interviewer will never ask another question ever 😂
2026-10-20 12:35:09
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Urraho :
He tryna tell you they know what it does but don’t know why
2026-10-20 17:35:25
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NP :
Looked it up. Repelling magnetic fields .
2026-10-21 01:08:20
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j._.minz :
Why is metaphysical, science describes not prescribes.
2026-10-20 16:58:14
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$lenda$ :
just forget it, I'll keep on scrolling
2026-10-21 00:59:01
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NireshB :
Definitely cannot get drunk with this guy
2026-10-20 17:54:35
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me when my wife asks why I didn't take the trash out
2026-10-20 11:28:24
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Gigachad :
He’s basically trying to differentiate between “why” and “how.” Philosophy answers “why?” whereas science attempts to explain “how”
2026-10-20 21:04:30
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Sarah J Bishop :
The level/amount of responses to this that are so incredibly basic and 3D are incredibly fascinating.
2026-10-21 00:54:05
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dr. Feynman :
The truth is, I was annoyed by such a basic question, and knowing that the journalist wouldn’t understand the answer I needed to give led me to this particular way of shutting him up
2026-10-20 14:46:11
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Gerudo :
The comments in this post just shows that critical thinking is dead...
2026-10-20 19:20:15
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AM1 🇨🇦 :
He seems greatly aggrieved by the question
2026-10-20 20:06:13
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nebula_M78 :
Macroscopically, magnetic repulsion arises because bringing like poles together forces their vector fields into constructive superposition, spiking the local magnetic energy density and establishing a steep spatial potential gradient that drives the dipoles apart to minimize total stored energy. In classical field theory, this is governed by Maxwell's stress tensor, where the lateral magnetic pressure perpendicular to compressed, parallel field lines exerts an outward mechanical force. At a foundational quantum electrodynamic level, this macroscopic stress and momentum flux density are mediated by the exchange of virtual photons between interacting atomic current loops within the crystal lattices, manifesting precisely as the repulsive force that pushes the magnets apart.
2026-10-20 20:18:18
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Alisonlikesorchids :
he couldn't just say "I don't know". 😳
2026-10-20 17:45:22
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SisuDoomguy :
At some point science doesn't know, keep asking these questions and scientists will give explanations that don't hold up to scrutiny
2026-10-20 12:31:46
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Jay From LineCrush :
bro doesnt know - if he did, he'd just answer why's until the interviewer understands, vs this 7min gaslighting
2026-10-20 14:50:47
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