. >> eventually recruited by caltech.s to harvard than caltech and he's reluctant to leave scotland, but i love about his story is that he liked to cut bits of rubber matting off a bold experiments and make new things while people at harvard were using the most advanced magnet designed and he was using the earth's magnetic deal because it was free and head this way of exploiting what he had to make something incredible out of it, but eventually this experiment you are describing became too big for all of them pick raise a original prototype, which he builds in this ramshackle structure on the mit campus, a structure that was supposed be torn down. it was the sheer craftiness of the structure that allowed them the freedom to do anything they wanted. ray did one experiment with like a breakthrough three-story ceiling that the roof and people just occasionally a window would blowout down the street and they would just steal it each other's electricity from pipes overhead and he said one time he did on experiment with a cat,

. >> rose: the caltech one. this lecture series was at columbia. then he goes to caltech and does the most criewlg freshman physics course ever done that even he thinks, man, i think i made it too hard for them and that leads to thefeinman lectures on physics. if you want to test your physics knowledge o or refresh it, there is nothing better to read. >> rose: did you read them? yes, but slowly. it's the slowest thing i've ever read. >> rose: do you likely regret not learning a foreign language? >> yeah, i feel like some isolationist, lazy person. >> rose: then why didn't you? lazy, you are not. >> i got fanatic about software and kept putting it off and still, to this day, i'm hoping to get around to it. french is easy enough that i should just do that. now, mark zuckerberg went and learned chinese, gave a lecture. >> rose: and answered questions from the chinese. >> and my chinese-speaking friends say it was very, very impressive. >> rose: so, hey, there is still time. >> i'm a bit envious. >> rose: you're 50 something and he's 30. >> not chinese

t bill: this lecture series was at columbia and then he goes to caltech and does the most grueling freshman course ever done. even he thinks man, i made it too hard. that leads to the feynman lectures on physics, which, it is a high bar to read those. they are extremely well written. if you want to test your physics knowledge or refresh it, there is nothing better. charlie: did you read them? bill: yes, but slowly. it's the slowest thing i have ever read. [chuckling] charlie: do you deeply regret not learning a foreign language? bill: yes, i feel like some isolationist, lazy person. charlie: why didn't you? lazy you are not. bill: i got fanatic about software and kept putting it off and still to this day i'm hoping to get around to it. french is easy enough that i should do that. mark zuckerberg learned chinese and gave a lecture. my chinese speaking friends say it was impressive. so, hey. charlie: there is still time. you are 50-something and he is thirty-something. bill: i should do it. not chinese, i am too much of a wimp. charlie: i saw something about how you acknowledged that you had

here, the actual rate in this -- i heard a caltech scientist the other day.e says he believes that reclaimed wastewater can be delivered as cheaply as our central water project is doing it. the northwest project has been the result of a lack of statesmanship. there is a great mistrust on the part of states with a smaller population, of california. they think we would be on the taking end while they are giving. they want to reserve the right to have the same growth potential. we can understand that. the point of origin rights must be respected anytime. but why i worry about the federal government is because it seems to me there would be more resistance from those states to joining us, through a federal government plan, because there, they would know they are outweighed. politics being what they are, a state with our population will have more of a voice in the federal government than smaller states. this is why i would think that statesmanship is required, to see if we cannot get together the several states involved, in a regional approach to this, and find out

i'm going to do about the dawn mission and as you know, this is run by jpl for nasa, caltech operatesin every are at jpl. but there are many organizations around the country and, indeed, around the world involved in this project. [laughter] but before i start telling about the dawn mission, want to give you a little bit of context. so let's take a look at what astronomers knew about the solar system in 1800. here we are with the conventional view of the solar system looking down on the with the sun and the center. here are the orbits of the inner planets including the orbit of the earth, mars, jupiter, saturn and uranus. and apart from an occasional comment in someone's, desperate much what astronomers knew about the source system in 1800. anti-infective and this is a very modern picture, because of uranus had only been discovered in 1781. so the signature could have been drawn 20 years earlier. the planets of course from mercury to saturn were not even to ancient astronomers. this was a modern view of the solar system in 1800. for fun, although this is the arrangement of the solar sy