Name: The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures, 1964)
ISBN: 9780262560030

The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures, 1964)

作者: Richard Feynman
出版社: The MIT Press
出版年: 2001
页数: 173
定价: USD 17.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780262560030

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In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have found it out, but...how clever nature is to pay attention to it," and tends his discussions toward a final exposition of the elegance and simplicity of all scientific laws. Rather than an essay on the most significant achievements in modern science, The Character of Physical Law is a statement of what is most remarkable in nature. Feynman's enlightened approach, his wit, and his enthusiasm make this a memorable exposition of the scientist's craft.The Law of Gravitation is the author's principal example. Relating the details of its discovery and stressing its mathematical character, he uses it to demonstrate the essential interaction of mathematics and physics. He views mathematics as the key to any system of scientific laws, suggesting that if it were possible to fill out the structure of scientific theory completely, the result would be an integrated set of mathematical axioms. The principles of conservation, symmetry, and time-irreversibility are then considered in relation to developments in classical and modern physics, and in his final lecture Feynman develops his own analysis of the process and future of scientific discovery.Like any set of oral reflections, The Character of Physical Law has special value as a demonstration of the mind in action. The reader is particularly lucky in Richard Feynman. One of the most eminent and imaginative modern physicists, he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology until his death in 1988. He is best known for his work on the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, as well as for his later research in the field of low-temperature physics. In 1954 he received the Albert Einstein Award for his "outstanding contribution to knowledge in mathematical and physical sciences"; in 1965 he was appointed to Foreign Membership in the Royal Society and was awarded the Nobel Prize.

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Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry (查看原文)

江心庐 2赞 2020-02-09 16:31:28

—— 引自第28页
这一次演讲的要点，就只是强调这一事实：不可能向那些对数学缺乏某种深入理解的人以大家都能够感受到的方式忠实地说明自然定律之美。我很抱歉，但看来只能如此。 (查看原文)

Atticus 2022-12-11 09:36:44

—— 引自章节：第二章数学与物理学的关系

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