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Re:The Feynman Lectures on Physics are free online by rcurry on Thursday October 15, 2015 @12:57AM (#10391429)
One of Feynman's funniest lines, I thought, was during a talk where someone in the audience asked if we'd ever be able to develop an anti-gravity device. Feynman gestured at their chair and said something along the lines of "we already have, in fact you're sitting on one right now."
Re:The Feynman Lectures on Physics are free online by amelius on Thursday October 15, 2015 @07:50AM (#10392567)
Funny. Except that sitting on a chair will not make you feel weightless. Also, we can't replace space stations and parabolic flights by chairs.
Re:The Feynman Lectures on Physics are free online by teekert on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:23AM (#10392673)
The chair provides an equal but opposite force to gravity, that could be interpreted as anti-gravity :)