Feynman lectures on gravitation
by Richard Phillips Feynman, Brian Hatfield · first published 1995
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The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational physics, yet he published very little. These lectures represent a useful record of his viewpoints and some of his insights into gravity and its application to cosmology, superstars, wormholes, and gravitational waves at that particular time. The lectures also contain a number of fascinating digres
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on “Lecture Notes on General Relativity (1997)” ↗"As the Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg showed in 1964, the existence of a spin-2 particle leads inevitably to general relativity" Huh?!? spin-2 particle leading to GR was the prime essence of Feynman lectures on Gravitation, 1962
on “Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics” ↗I've thought that before now, with respect to spooky action. There's an interesting seeming bit in the Feynman Lectures on Gravitation where he kind of demonstrates you can get Einstein type spacetime from the maths of a spin-2 particle though it's remained a bit beyond me to understand it. I even thought at one point I'd try to write…
on “The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics” ↗Feynman lectures on Gravitation, 1962
on “Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics” ↗…after if you are keen it can be good to look at the Feynman Lectures vol III, Chapter 5 where he talks about spin. He deliberately leaves spin out of QED to keep things simple. Also if curious there's the Feynman lectures on Gravitation where he tries to figure out quantum gravity and fails like everyone else. One thing I like about Feynman is his talks are based on experiments - if you fire electrons at two slits this happens (QED)…
on “A wave of experiments is probing the root of quantum weirdness” ↗