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Science > Physics |
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"phoenix" |
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06 Mar 2005 04:47:21 PM |
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feynman book question & recommendations |
Hi,
Does anyone own Feynman's "QED: The Strange Theory
of Light and Matter"?
I already got Feynman Lectures on Physics 3 Vols (arriving
next week). I'm wondering if getting the above QED book is
redundant. Are the contents of this already in the 3 vols??
Also I presume Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Vols)
focus on electromagnetic fields or QED....
What are similar good layman or advanced layman books
that focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)??
I'd like to know if quarks really exist and what's the fuss
about light. These books would ensure I won't be fooled
by cranks easily.
I wonder if many of the seemingly cranks here have owned
Feynmann Lectures on Physics.
Y.Porat, Ken Seto, TomGee, David Thomson, etc. Do you
own Feymann Lectures on Physics 3 vol set??
If you don't. Get it fast. It seems you guys keep making some
basic mistakes that Heymann can spot easily. How can you
take apart Standard Model is you are not completely veteran
in it??
P
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| User: "Greysky" |
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| Title: Re: feynman book question & recommendations |
08 Mar 2005 11:34:54 PM |
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"phoenix" <photonixx@go.com> wrote in message
news:1110149241.372066.173180@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Hi,
Does anyone own Feynman's "QED: The Strange Theory
of Light and Matter"?
Yes
I already got Feynman Lectures on Physics 3 Vols (arriving
next week). I'm wondering if getting the above QED book is
redundant. Are the contents of this already in the 3 vols??
Redundant, no. The Feynman lectures are just that - based on a series of
*lectures* given in the early 1960's. QED occupies scant space in volume 1.
In QED you have the dead Feynman whispering in your ear.
Also I presume Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Vols)
focus on electromagnetic fields or QED....
Why presume? 3 volumes focused on EM would be pretty boring. Get the books
and be surprised.
What are similar good layman or advanced layman books
that focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)??
Read the Lectures first.
I'd like to know if quarks really exist and what's the fuss
about light. These books would ensure I won't be fooled
by cranks easily.
Feynamn himself would be laughing at your presumptiousness. Perhaps after
you read Feynmans own words concerning QED in his book you will think
Feynamn himself was perhaps a crank - and that he knew it.
I wonder if many of the seemingly cranks here have owned
Feynmann Lectures on Physics.
Y.Porat, Ken Seto, TomGee, David Thomson, etc. Do you
own Feymann Lectures on Physics 3 vol set?
Since before you were making pookie in your training pants...
If you don't. Get it fast. It seems you guys keep making some
basic mistakes that Heymann can spot easily. How can you
take apart Standard Model is you are not completely veteran
in it??
Get both books and read them. Then read them again. Then sleep with them
under your pillow at night. If you want to produce intelligent children when
you grow up, let your girlfriend sleep with them under her pillow too. If
you have the money, get the Hardbound editions as they'll last much longer
(especially the Lectures).
Greysky
www.allocations.cc
Learn how to build a FTL radio.
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| User: "Michael Varney" |
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| Title: Re: feynman book question & recommendations |
07 Mar 2005 12:47:43 AM |
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"phoenix" <photonixx@go.com> wrote in message
news:1110149241.372066.173180@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
Hi,
Does anyone own Feynman's "QED: The Strange Theory
of Light and Matter"?
Yes. After all, it has been offered for many years, so I am usre that it
must have sold a few copies.
I already got Feynman Lectures on Physics 3 Vols (arriving
next week). I'm wondering if getting the above QED book is
redundant. Are the contents of this already in the 3 vols??
QED is at a much simpler level than the FLP.
Also I presume Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Vols)
focus on electromagnetic fields or QED....
What are similar good layman or advanced layman books
that focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)??
Go through the lectures first.
I'd like to know if quarks really exist
http://arxiv.org/
and what's the fuss
about light. These books would ensure I won't be fooled
by cranks easily.
That skill comes only with experience and study of physics.
I wonder if many of the seemingly cranks here have owned
Feynmann Lectures on Physics.
Perhaps, but it is unlikely that they have read them in any detail.
Y.Porat, Ken Seto, TomGee, David Thomson, etc. Do you
own Feymann Lectures on Physics 3 vol set??
Ha Ha Ha.
If you don't. Get it fast. It seems you guys keep making some
basic mistakes that Heymann can spot easily. How can you
take apart Standard Model is you are not completely veteran
in it??
P
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| User: "Bjoern Feuerbacher" |
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| Title: Re: feynman book question & recommendations |
08 Mar 2005 09:36:32 AM |
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phoenix wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone own Feynman's "QED: The Strange Theory
of Light and Matter"?
I don't own it, but I once read it (and I think I could again
get access to it).
I already got Feynman Lectures on Physics 3 Vols (arriving
next week). I'm wondering if getting the above QED book is
redundant. Are the contents of this already in the 3 vols??
No. The QED book if for a lay audience, illustrating the
concepts very roughly with pictures etc. The Feynman lectures (the
third volume is about QM, but you probably need also the other
two volumes in order to understand it), OTOH, actually show the math
behind all these concepts.
Also I presume Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Vols)
focus on electromagnetic fields or QED....
No, QED is not contained in the Feynman lectures (only maybe
a short outlook). They are about classical mechanics and
thermodynamics (first volume), classical electrodynamics (second
volume) and QM (third volume). All necessary prerequisites if
you want to understand QED!
What are similar good layman or advanced layman books
that focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)??
Sorry, I don't know any layman book on QCD.
I'd like to know if quarks really exist
For a treatment of particle physics on a layman levels,
try "The particle hunters" by Ne'eman and Kirsh. IIRC, they
present some of the pieces of evidence for the existence of
quarks fairly nicely.
OTOH, if you *really* want to know why physicists are convinced
that quarks exist, studying the topic on the layman level isn't
enough (by far!).
and what's the fuss about light.
I think Feynman addresses that quite nicely.
These books would ensure I won't be fooled by cranks easily.
Provided that you actually understand them.
I wonder if many of the seemingly cranks here have owned
Feynmann Lectures on Physics.
Y.Porat, Ken Seto, TomGee, David Thomson, etc. Do you
own Feymann Lectures on Physics 3 vol set??
I sincerely doubt it. Perhaps Ken S. Tucker, but none of the
others.
If you don't. Get it fast. It seems you guys keep making some
basic mistakes that Heymann can spot easily.
Unfortunately, they don't admit (not even to themselves) that they
made mistakes.
How can you
take apart Standard Model is you are not completely veteran
in it??
Well, for example Porat simply says that he does not bother to
study something which he already "knows" to be nonsense. Apparently
it does not ever occur to him that as long as he has not studied it,
he is not in the position to judge if it is nonsense or not.
Bye,
Bjoern
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