QED
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QED
Richard Feynman
8 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2009–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
The book with the highest signal to noise ratio. I finally understood what science is about, a way to model nature and to keep refining it to fit the observation.
It made a large portion of quantum physics "click" for me intuitively and dispelled a bunch of popular notions about quantum physics that are just wrong.
It pulled a veil off from my eyes, made me really understand what science is all about.
For science book: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman.
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman. You realise that nothing makes sense anymore.
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