← Back to context Comment by vba616 4 years ago It seems odd to mention Feynman here even if he did say it. Surely he wasn't the only or first person? 6 comments vba616 Reply mwt 4 years ago Maybe this is it?> first analysed in 1912 ... by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski. ... popularised by [Feynman] in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet kergonath 4 years ago It’s an allusion to the Brownian ratchet thought experiment. AFAIK he demonstrated why it does not work. sedatk 4 years ago Surely he was joking. l0ng1nu5 4 years ago What do you care? kklisura 4 years ago I see what you did there bongoman37 4 years ago
mwt 4 years ago Maybe this is it?> first analysed in 1912 ... by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski. ... popularised by [Feynman] in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
kergonath 4 years ago It’s an allusion to the Brownian ratchet thought experiment. AFAIK he demonstrated why it does not work.
sedatk 4 years ago Surely he was joking. l0ng1nu5 4 years ago What do you care? kklisura 4 years ago I see what you did there
Maybe this is it?
> first analysed in 1912 ... by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski. ... popularised by [Feynman] in a physics lecture at the California Institute of Technology on May 11, 1962,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet
It’s an allusion to the Brownian ratchet thought experiment. AFAIK he demonstrated why it does not work.
Surely he was joking.
What do you care?
I see what you did there