Episode 158: Quantum Electodynamics Part 1

The Science of Everything Podcast by James Fodor

Mar 1, 202651:10Science & Medicine

A detailed look into the physics and mathematics of quantum electrodynamics, the theory of how light and matter interact. We discuss the generalisation of the Schrodinger equation to the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations,...

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