Book · 1985 · Nonfiction

QED

Name: QED
Author: Richard Feynman

The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Richard Feynman

Princeton University Press · 192 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Why does a pane of glass reflect some of the light striking it? Feynman answers with arrows on paper and not one equation, handing quantum electrodynamics whole to readers who never took physics.

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Popular science Science

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Physics Science

Time

1985

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