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04 Jun The Foundations of Quantum Field Theory

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Quantum Field Theory is an axiomatic theory that rests on a few basic assumptions. Everything you have learned so far, from the force of gravity to the spectrum of hydrogen, follows almost inevitably from these three basic principles. (To my knowledge, Julian Schwinger is the...

05 Mar Discovery of the Strong Force

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Hideki Yukawa, son of a geology professor, graduated from Kyoto University in 1929. Five years later, while a resurgent militarism was engulfing Japan that would culminate in the invasion of China in 1937 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Yukawa came up with...