Richard Feynman
-Gayathri B. Seetharam
Surely, you say the right thing, Mr. Feynman,
When you are not joking
Dr. Feynman was a lover of women
But a sexist who rooted for a female professor to get equal pay eventually
But not only are his Feynman diagrams famous
But his path integral formulation of quantum mechanics
Helps us understand quantum particles better
If we can get past the difficulty of understanding the problem
Last evening, I found after seeing a magical footprint of the evening sun on the wall
The mass of a photon which has no rest mass
Using the assumptions I made
It was 24.7 x 10power-13 kg/sec and using the Feynman position vector
Or path integral formulation of quantum mechanics
Which is for a wave, I shall adapt this for a particle
And say that in 60 sec, my phi(x0, t0=1sec)becomes 1.4 x 10power10 kg/sec or (24.7 = x1,60sec = t1)
Such that x1 stretches over infinity
And I make this feminine observation, Dr. Feynman, that a ket which is a complex conjugate of a bra
Does not apply to me for I do not have an imaginary part
All of it is in real time and real space.
Acknowledgements:
1. Wikipedia
2. MIT paper by Dennis V. Perepetitsa titled, Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics
3. Internet
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