/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4541422
Treating aging like a disease, interesting.

tl;dr - Need a Googlefu.
Has anyone been able to find a PDF file of this?
Someone last night mentioned it, so I looked into it and it has sparked my interest. But I can't find a download link.

<------THIS FUCKING BOOK


I had a terrible Physics teacher, so instead i just read this book, and while it includes more than just physics, its not a textbook, its simply Richard Feynman explaining physics as a step by step process. He writes as if you gave man only one piece of information:

"The world is made up of small particles called atoms."

How this can give rise to all science as we know it. Its absolutely great to read. The book starts of with just explaining protons and electrons, all the way to explaining all he knew about Quantum Electrodynamics by the end of it. Its physics from step 1 to 100. Its pretty much physics dumbed down to a level for anyone to pick up. He doesn't even use math in it, its just reading a small book and learning so much!

>>1732083 Why doesn't the interaction with the slit cause a collapse of the wavefunction?

The last 1/6 of this book has the most complete and understandable description of this I have ever found. Vital read. Basically the slit is a place the electrons CAN go through. If you've got two slits the electrons can go through either but you don't know which an individual one is going through. So you shoot photons at the slits so that if an electron is going through a slit you'll see which one it's going through, but because of the interference the wave function will collapse and the electron will no longer have the same wave pattern on the detector. So you slow down the photons you shoot to detect and EVERY one you CAN determine which hole it goes through will look like it only went through the slit and everyone you miss will land on the back in the same statistical probability as if you hadn't setup the detector to see which hole it goes through. Hope that makes sense, little drunk.