It was World War II and scientists belonging to the Manhattan Project worked on calculations for the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, in one of the buildings, future Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist ...

Richard Feynman's famous diagrams weren’t just a way to do calculations. They represented a deep shift in thinking about how the universe is put together. Betting on the Future of Quantum Gravity New ...

Interesting interview of Steve Hsu. I'll reproduce the part about Feynman: 3. Is it true Feynman's IQ score was only 125? Feynman was universally regarded as one of the fastest thinking and most ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

“You and I are very lucky,” he said to me once. “Because whatever else is going on, we’ve always got our physics.” Richard Feynman and Stephen WolframTranscribed from a talk given at the Boston Public ...

The next time you get a letter, its stamp might have printed on it examples of one the greatest conceptual tools of modern physics. The tool is a kind of line drawing, and a bunch of those drawings ...

In 1981, shortly after I arrived in the physics department at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, I heard a strong voice resonating down the corridor: “Hey Schwarz, how many dimensions ...