The Character of Physical Law — 1: The Law of Gravitation
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May 14, 20261 January 1964Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Feynman introduces the nature of physical law through gravitation, tracing its discovery from Kepler and Galileo to Newton and Einstein. The lecture emphasizes the scientific method, the inverse-square law, and gravity’s universality across scales from falling objects to galaxies, while noting unresolved links to quantum theory and other forces.
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