The Challenger Disaster - William Hurt does an excellent job as Feynman; a must watch !!
Bill Rogers:We have to accept this fact that this shuttle is the most complex machine that has ever been built and it has more than 2.5 million parts. It may be after due consideration its not possible to identify the cause.
Richard Feynman: It's nothing.
Bill Rogers: I am sorry Dr.Feynman?
Richard Feynman: 2.5 million, small potatoes. Really, look I don't know much about space rockets but I know a little some about probability; something I developed called path integral formulation - its quantum mechanics. Basically, what it means is you can figure out the probability of something occurring not just when you got 2.5 millions events but an infinity of possibilities. Over large, the number of cause will pass for whatever happened to Challenger an explanation can be found. What we doing here if we don't think its possible?
Bill Rogers:We have to accept this fact that this shuttle is the most complex machine that has ever been built and it has more than 2.5 million parts. It may be after due consideration its not possible to identify the cause.
Richard Feynman: It's nothing.
Bill Rogers: I am sorry Dr.Feynman?
Richard Feynman: 2.5 million, small potatoes. Really, look I don't know much about space rockets but I know a little some about probability; something I developed called path integral formulation - its quantum mechanics. Basically, what it means is you can figure out the probability of something occurring not just when you got 2.5 millions events but an infinity of possibilities. Over large, the number of cause will pass for whatever happened to Challenger an explanation can be found. What we doing here if we don't think its possible?
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