Customer Reviews

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Feynman offers yet another spirited elaboration on how those otherwise-inaccessable properties of reality work. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), the study of how light and matter work, is beautifully introduced by physics' "Great Explainer". As opposed to much popular science, QED requires a touch more dedication in grappling, and while the material may seem unfathomably dense at points, the work is nevertheless a remarkably engrossing read.

I have no formal training in physics other than what we were forced to do in High School so getting through the first chapter of this book was a difficult feat. However, once I read through the second chapter, I was amazed at the sheer amount of new information I was able to process and understand. This doesn't mean this book is for everyone, but anyone with a curious mind and is determined to read through will be profoundly rewarded by Feynman's top grade teaching style.

To be able to read a book which is able to teach its reader the wonder of light which we ordinary people just take for granted, to find out how it is possible for you get all those colours in bubbles and the diffraction of cd's just blew my mind and how light acts as it travels through glass. Ordering the book I didn't think I would find this book a great as it was, if you're a person who loves to know the world and how it is just read this book. But I would like to worn you that you will need to openly trust what this man says in order to understand it he says he is just telling you how it really is and its up to you to believe it.

Ce livre d'une centaine de page, vous expliquera en détails comment se comportent les photons dans des situations de tous les jours et comment ceux-ci interagissent avec les électrons. Feynman, comme à l'habitude, vulgarise d'une façon exceptionnelle la matière pour la rendre accessible à tous. Titulaire du prix Nobel de physique, il se spécialise dans la théorie de l'électrodynamique quantique.

Excellent livre

Pierre-Antony Deschênes
Étudiant 1er cycle
École de technologie supérieure