Quantum Electrodynamics - annotated sources. Volume I. - Underwood, Trevor
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This is not a sourcebook in the conventional sense. It is a working document which brings together annotated extracts from 107 primary sources, or translations of them, of the development of quantum electrodynamics, so that it is easier for a researcher to deal with the large volume of material. Links to internet copies of the primary documents or alternative sources are provided where available to enable these to be consulted. A summary is provided at the head of each paper and in the Contents. The references in each paper are expanded to include the title (and its translation where…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This is not a sourcebook in the conventional sense. It is a working document which brings together annotated extracts from 107 primary sources, or translations of them, of the development of quantum electrodynamics, so that it is easier for a researcher to deal with the large volume of material. Links to internet copies of the primary documents or alternative sources are provided where available to enable these to be consulted. A summary is provided at the head of each paper and in the Contents. The references in each paper are expanded to include the title (and its translation where relevant), and a copy of the summary where this is available and helpful to avoid unnecessary cross referencing. Biographies of the main contributors are also provided, of which 18 received Nobel Prizes in Physics. The chronological development of the theories of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics constituted an interesting interplay between theory and experiment. Volume I, covering the period from 1896 to 1931 is primarily focused on the development of the largely successful non-relativistic theory of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. The 2nd Edition of Volume I includes descriptions of the Lagrangian on pages 36-7 and of the Schrödinger equation and quantum superposition on pages 483-5. Volume II, covering the period from 1930 up until 1965, when Tomonaga, Feynman, and Schwinger received their Nobel prizes, addresses the attempts to formulate a relativistic quantum electrodynamics, or quantum field theory, for the electron, when the energy of the electron is relativistic, and in particular to address, through a process of renormalization, the still unresolved divergencies arising largely, if not entirely, from the assumption of a point electron.
Autorenporträt
Trevor Underwood was born in England in 1943, and became a US citizen in 2004. He earned a M.A. in mathematics and physics at Cambridge University in 1965, and a M.Sc. in economics at the London School of Economics in 1967, followed by further graduate studies at the University of Rochester, NY, and at Harvard University. He worked for the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, and the UK Treasury between 1969 and 1973. He founded a treasury consultancy and software company in 1974, which he ran until 2017. In 2008 he returned to scientific research. In November 2015, he published a paper A new model of human dispersal on bioRxiv.org, the online preprint archive for biology. He then wrote six climate science papers which were published in a book (November 2019) The Surface Temperature of the Earth. In November 2021, he published Urbain Le Verrier on the Movement of Mercury - annotated translations. This was followed by a series of reviews of theoretical physics: (April 2023) Quantum Electrodynamics, Volumes I and II; (June 2023) Special Relativity; (November 2023) General Relativity; (March 2024) Gravity; (May 2024) Electricity & Magnetism; (July 2024) Quantum Entanglement; and (September 2024) The Standard Model; culminating in his conclusions in (October 2024) New Physics. Following this he published (November 2024) Cosmological Redshift of Light; (January 2025) Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation; and (May 2025) Fundamental Physics.