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I especially like the Feynman solution. Sometimes it doesn't have to be elegant to be correct. "If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have b
by mgraczyk 13y ago
I especially like the Feynman solution. Sometimes it doesn't have to be elegant to be correct.
"If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize." - Feynman, 1985
- MaysonL 13y agoAnd yet, his book on the subject, published that year [QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter] does about as good a job explaining it to the average person as humanly possible. From the intro to the 2006 edition: "According to Feynman, to learn QED you have two choices: you can go through seven years of physics education or read this book".