Reviews for Plasma Physics: IX Latin American Workshop, La Serena, Chile, 13-17 November, 2000

The average rating for Plasma Physics: IX Latin American Workshop, La Serena, Chile, 13-17 November, 2000 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-05 00:00:00 Paul Hayden Four decades ago, I once dared to walk into the office of Mr. S C Mookerjee, our Professor and Head of Department in Physics at St. Aloysius' College, Jabalpur, and there I took his permission to look up his personal library. There were three attractive red-colored cloth volumes of Lectures in Physics by Richard P. Feynman. I picked up the first volume and upon a cursory glance, I happened to read this paragraph, in utter admiration and reverence: "A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflection in the glass; and our imagination adds atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization; all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -- physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on -- remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all!" ' Richard P. Feynman I now find that this paragraph has captured hearts all over the globe and, therefore, it is internationally famous.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-11-12 00:00:00 Melissa Fitches The most wonderful gift from my brother on my 17th birthday. At first I didn't realize what I was holding in my hands. But it gradually became clear that this book is a work of genius. Feynman has explained every concept of Physics so beautifully. No wonder these lectures are still cherished by all. Best one to get all the concepts cleared and at the same time, have fun learning about the Physics of the world around us. Feynman is one of the reasons I fell in love with Physics.