geralt Physicist Richard P. Feinman received the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributing significantly to the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED). One of the achievements of Feynman Feynman ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University (THE CONVERSATION) A clever mathematical ...

Illustration of a polaron The bright sphere is the electron, which is distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines are high-order Feynman diagrams for the electron–phonon interaction. (Courtesy: ...

More than 30 years ago, a physicist honored a bet by naming a particle decay diagram after an aquatic bird. Two physicists walk into a bar and start playing a game of darts. One turns to the other and ...

I've been covering chemistry software in my last few articles, so this time, I decided to move to physics and introduce a package called JaxoDraw. In physics, there's a powerful technique for ...

As one of the most famous physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman was known for a lot. Early in his career, he contributed to the development of the first atomic bomb as a group leader of the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would ...