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Old 08-05-2012, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by cwjohn View Post
......Any discussion involving QFT, Lagrangians and gauge theory, will lose not only the OP but also the majority of the participants....
Apparently Richard Feynman, was once asked by a Caltech faculty member to prepare a introductory course on why spin one-half particles obey Fermi Dirac statistics.

He said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But a few days later he told the faculty member, "You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it."

Begging the question: is the latter still the case?
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