Feynman diagram summary

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Feynman diagram, Graphical method of representing the interactions of elementary particles. It was invented by Richard P. Feynman, who introduced the diagrams as an aid to calculating the processes that occur between electrons and photons. A Feynman diagram consists of two axes, one representing space, the other representing time. Electrons are represented as straight lines, while photons are shown as wavy lines. The interaction between particles appears as a junction of three lines, or a vertex. Feynman diagrams are now used to show all types of particle interactions.

Richard Feynman Summary

Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist who was widely regarded as the most brilliant, influential, and iconoclastic figure in his field in the post-World War II era. Feynman remade quantum electrodynamics—the theory of the interaction between light and matter—and thus altered the way