In QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Richard P. Feynman explains in his lucid and
witty style the revolutionary scientific theory that won him the Nobel Prize.Quantum
electrodynamics - or QED for short - is the theory that explains how light and electrons
interact and in doing so illuminates the deepest and most complex mysteries of the world
around us.Thanks to Richard Feynman and his colleagues who won the Nobel Prize for their
groundbreaking work in this area it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for
sure - a theory that has stood the test of time. In these entertaining lectures Feynman uses
clear everyday examples to provide the definitive introduction to QED.'The perfect example of
scientific genius' Independent'If you don't believe Nature is absurd let chatty Professor
Feynman convince you in his series of exceedingly reader-friendly lectures ... Full of witty
one-liners with its learninglightly worn it's a book to enlighten' Mail on Sunday'Does a
marvelous job of explaining one of twentieth-century physics' few unqualified triumphs' The New
York TimesRichard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was one of this century's most brilliant theoretical
physicists and original thinkers. Feynman's other books also available in Penguin include QED
Six Easy Pieces Six Not-so-Easy Pieces Don't You Have Time to Think The Pleasure of Finding
Things Out What Do You Care What Other People Think? and The Meaning of it All.