Richard Feynman "Little Things That Jiggle"

"Things are made of littler things that jiggle" is Richard Feynman's famous quote. This simplification of physics is what made him a favorite upon his students. He knew that if physics, and all science for that matter, could not b understood in a freshman lecture then no one else could understand it. And the film "Little Things That Jiggle" takes this idea and puts it to use.

"Little Things That Jiggle" is a visual introduction to physics. We start off with an alien visitation of some sort, which might be explained in the thought that life and existence is so patterned that it must have been created by someone, an "alien" perhaps not of this world? The image of A. Einstein with the equation E=MC2. Alluding that Einstein is the father of physics, that the work he had done is still the bases for much of the new discoveries today. Newton's law of gravity is then presented following with the other basic forces nuclear interactions, weak or strong and then electromagnetism. The invention of the atom bomb is shown, followed by the quote "Now I have become both Brahma and Shiva, creator and destroyer of the world", this I interpret as the command that man has taken over science in creating a weapon that only creates mass destruction, R. Feynman believed that the Earth was doomed after he helped create the atom bomb, that man was eventually going to destroy himself. Then the discovery of hydrogen bomb brings along more fear of man made destruction. "To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery " is the future of science, even though we make these discoveries we have no way of understanding what they will bring for the future.