Scientists used children’s ‘silly sprinklers’ to solve a physics problem Richard Feynman could not; the reverse version spins 50 times slower

Mathematicians have solved a physics puzzle using backyard sprinklers. Experiments with silly sprinklers clarified how ...
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Nature Needs Mathematics for Its Rigorous Description But is Computation at the Root of Nature

Feynman's made a lecture and book that mathematics is needed to describe nature. It (in The Relation of Mathematics to ...

Physicists have argued over this problem since 1883. It may now be solved

Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the most famous lawn-care-related problem in all of physics. The so-called Feynman sprinkler problem is named after one of the best-known ...
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“Silly sprinklers” help scientists finally solve Feynman’s famous sprinkler mystery

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades ...

Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute conducted a series of experiments with different silly sprinkler ...
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The Feynman technique: The most effective learning and recall method that schools never teach

The Trick Feynman Used That Textbooks Don't Mention Richard Feynman could explain quantum electrodynamics to a first-year student without losing the physics. That wasn't charm. It was a deliberate ...

Quote of the Day by Richard Feynman: 'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest…'

Richard Feynman's quote is a reminder of the importance of being honest with yourself. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...
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How Feynman diagrams transformed physics

Tools can change not only how theorists calculate but also what they calculate about. But two decades ago, Ursula Klein, a scholar from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, ...