Force

Any particle can be exchanged in some context or another. So every kind of particle in one way or another produces a force.

In molecular physics, it’s the exchange of electrons which creates force [in covalent bond]. In electrodynamics, it’s the exchange of photons back and forth which creates force.

So [every] particle is connected with a force when that particle can be exchanged or jump back and forth between two something else.

There are people say that there are [only] four forces of nature.

No.

There is a force of every possible kind of particle.

— Lecture 1 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model 

— Leonard Susskind

2013.05.13 Monday ACHK

受難曲 1.4

Nikola Tesla 2

這段改編自 2010 年 4 月 3 日的對話。

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再例如,「電磁王」Nikola Tesla 是一位物理學家和工程師,一生中有無數發明。最重要的發明之一,是「交流電」。你和我每天的生活,都享受著他這個創作成果。

他對人類的貢獻,無可限量。「所以」,他遭到「天讉」。他破了產,晚年過著貧困的生活。最終,他在所住的酒店房間,孤獨地過身。臨終時,身邊一個親人朋友也沒有。

— Me@2013.05.12

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Tesla never married, claiming that his chastity was very helpful to his scientific abilities. However, towards the end of his life, he told a reporter, “Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work….”

— Wikipedia on Nikola Tesla

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