文档介绍：RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
The development of the space-time view
of quantum electrodynamics
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the
work as finished as possible, to cover all the tracks, to not worry about the
blind alleys or to describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So
there isn’t any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did
in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some
interest in this kind of thing. Since winning the prize is a personal thing, I
thought I could be excused in this particular situation, if I were to talk per-
sonally about my relationship to quantum electrodynamics, rather than to
discuss the subject itself in a refined and finished fashion. Furthermore, since
there are three people who have won the prize in physics, if they are all going
to be talking about quantum electrodynamics itself, one might e bored
with the subject. So, what I would like to tell you about today are the sequence
of events, really the sequence of ideas, which occurred, and by which I finally
came out the other end with an unsolved problem for which I ultimately
received a prize.
I realize that a truly scientific paper would be of greater value, but such a
paper I could publish in regular journals. So, I shall use this Nobel Lecture as
an opportunity to do something of less value, but which I cannot do elsewhere.
I ask your indulgence in another manner. I shall include details of anecdotes
which are of no value either scientifically, nor for understanding the develop-
ment of ideas. They are included only to make the lecture more entertaining.
I worked on this problem about eight years until the final publication in
1947. The beginning of the thing was at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, when I was an undergraduate student reading about the known phys-
ics, learning slowly about all these things th