As always professional was Svetlana Begacheva who typeset the earlier Russian edition of this book. Fogel, who attracted my attention to electrodynamics and persistently revived that interest, sometimes even despite my resistance. Smirnov, and to the ‘first between equals’, V.A. Petersburg Physical Society seminar, and first of all to the seminar curator A.P. I am very grateful to all my colleagues in the St. This book could not have appeared at all without his attention and support. And first of my thanks are addressed to I.V. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to everybody who directly or indirectly helped in my difficult journey to modern physics. In the great evolution movement the Lord prescribed to us the role of the humanity brain. So let us not become like politicians who put their personal ambitions higher than the interests of our common pursuit. It is impossible without you to create hierarchy, canon so important for the science of the coming millennium, so necessary to construct “Beads game” on the place where today we observe a mixture of strange fantasies called physical concepts. But my words are also for venerable scientists of my own generation. Creative work is the only way for a person to experience this feeling. I believe that something like this is felt by a woman who keeps healthy and crying baby against her breast after a long and difficult pregnancy and childbirth. What can be more worthy? And what can give greater joy of life? I have lived my life, and I can say: neither money, nor power, nor even love (I do not even speak about wine and drugs) can give you the wonderful, keen feeling that embrace a person when the heap of discrepant and seemingly unrelated facts suddenly find just proportion, simplicity, and you begin feeling harmony of the universe. You will have space to develop, and subject to think over. The very foundation of modern physics has collapsed, and its edifice is tumbling down. Your life will not be devoted to specification of the hundredth digit of a well-known constant. My words are to you, student and postgraduate.

And any such challenge is addressed first of all to the youth cognizant of the laws of nature for the first time, and therefore potentially more inclined to perceive non-standard ideas. Kobo eBook (December 26th, 2023): $195.This book was conceived as a challenge to the crestfallen conformism in science.Series: Feynman Lectures on Physics (Paperback) He was also one of the most famous and beloved figures of the twentieth century, both in physics and in the public arena. He was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for his work on the development of quantum field theory. Feynman was Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

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