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The Theory of Photons and Electrons (repost)

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The Theory of Photons and Electrons (repost)

Josef Maria Jauch, F. Rohrlich, "The Theory of Photons and Electrons"
2nd edition | English | 1980-06-19 | ISBN: 0387072950 | 553 pages | PDF | 26.8 mb

Another dramatic example of where we were in Quantum Field Theory back in the 1950's and 1960's. It's a book that speaks volumes about what theoreticians were thinking about and how they were thinking about the fundamental processes between an electron and a photon.
That was Quantum Electrodynamics. But at that time nobody really could use that theory for much else except electrons and photons.

It was also the generation of "Big Machine Physics" which provided no doubt a certain atmosphere of to put it euphemistically "keen competition" between the theoreticians and the experimentalists of that time period. Especially the leading ones of each field ( pardon the pun ). A good example is what was going on at SLAC in the 1960's. They were doing lots of QED there. Right, doing it with a machine firing high speed electrons at targets to create all kinds of Feynman diagrams and getting all kinds of results striking fear into the hearts of theoreticians who had to madly keep up with the pace at which the data was coming in.