If you can do this, you may find the book to be useful and unique. If you can't, you're pretty much wasting your time with it.Not for beginnners! As a Feynman fan and layperson with a reasonable understanding of his work I found this book lost me before I was halfway into the first chapter. It looks good coursework material and from what I can tell is packed with amazing amounts of information. But without a strong fundamental grounding in basic physics this book will remain on your bookshelf.