Final Words
Writing this book was an absolutely wonderful and enjoyable experience, worth every hour of long nights and weekends spent working on it. It has been about two years since I
first had the inkling to write it, although the actual writing,
from the first word of the first chapter to the last sentence,
has taken about nine months.
The book is different from many (if not all) textbooks
on accelerators, lasers and plasma because firstly, it looks at
these areas together, and secondly, it mixes them with the
methodology of inventiveness — the glue that pulls these areas close to each other just as gluons connect the quarks in a
Λ-Barion, as illustrated below.
There are still many scientific topics I would have wanted
to discuss and include in this book, but I had to resist this
temptation, primarily based on the expectation that feedback
from the readers will be invaluable for the work on possible
future editions.
Andrei Seryi — Oxford, March 5, 2015
245
Writing this book was an absolutely wonderful and enjoyable experience, worth every hour of long nights and weekends spent working on it. It has been about two years since I
first had the inkling to write it, although the actual writing,
from the first word of the first chapter to the last sentence,
has taken about nine months.
The book is different from many (if not all) textbooks
on accelerators, lasers and plasma because firstly, it looks at
these areas together, and secondly, it mixes them with the
methodology of inventiveness — the glue that pulls these areas close to each other just as gluons connect the quarks in a
Λ-Barion, as illustrated below.
There are still many scientific topics I would have wanted
to discuss and include in this book, but I had to resist this
temptation, primarily based on the expectation that feedback
from the readers will be invaluable for the work on possible
future editions.
Andrei Seryi — Oxford, March 5, 2015
245