|
|
|
|
|
|
by vishnugupta
4520 days ago
|
|
|
Which is why I have so much respect for Richard Feynman. His books, especially QED, are so well written that I could understand the most part while still being able to appreciate the complexities. I believe he has said something to the effect of "if I can not make a lay person understand complex phenomenon it only means I have not understood it fully yet. |
|
|
> Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, "Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics." Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But he came back a few days later to say, "I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it."
If Feynman couldn't do it, perhaps it's okay to give a pass on how spin is described in this article?