Friday, December 28, 2012

What is fire?

I was recently explaining to someone what fire is and realized that there are people who have done this already and done so much better than I ever could.

Alan Alda had posed a challenge on NPR to explain what is a flame is to an eleven year old.  This was the winning video.  It's excellent:



I actually also like Feinman's explanation here:


My favorite part of Feinman's explanation is he brings out the wonder and the inter-connectedness of nature in a way that is wonderful!

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