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FEYNMAN, RICHARD P. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT ON THE PROCESSES OF QED, CA EARLY 1950S.

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  • "Two particles of momenta... collide. They produce final states of momenta... This is the square of the max available energy... The question is how "hard" is the collision?", ca early 1950s.
Autograph manuscript, 3 pp (8 x 10 1/2 in), in pencil on plain white paper, creases where previously folded. 

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FEYNMAN ON THE KEY PHYSICAL PROCESSES THAT ARE THE HALLMARK TO THE SUCCESS OF QED; COMPTON EFFECT, PAIRS, & BREMSSTRAHLUNG. An important pre-Nobel manuscript on Quantum Electrodynamics. Here, relying upon relevant energy-momentum 4-vectors as well as the underlying machinery of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Feynman uses relativistic invariants to analyze the signature high-energy physical processes, involving electrons & gamma rays, which constitute important experimental tests of QED.