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"This book is meant as a two-semester course in quantum field theory, skipping some material that can be studied independently. The chapters with asterisk I have not taught in my class, and can be skipped in a first reading, or when teaching the material [...]

"As an important component of culture, a conception of the physical world involves a model of the constitution and workings of nature, and includes assumptions about the mechanisms for fundamental interactions among the ultimate constituents of matter, and an interpretation of the nature of space and time. That is, the conception involves what philosophers usually call metaphysical assumptions [...]