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John Baez has promised to write a witty, enticing, entertaining, and informative preface for these notes, but he hasn't gotten around to it yet. So I'll just say that they start with the question, "What the heck is a photon, anyway?", and go on from there. For more, see the Introduction.

The notes are divided into two parts. Part I is available in both HTML and postscript format; part II is available only in postscript at present. (The postscript for part I has much nicer typesetting than the HTML, but no figures). There is also a Unix tarfile containing all the HTML and GIF files. If you place the tarfile in directory foo and untar it there, it will create a subdirectory schmoton and put all the files there.

I tried converting these notes from LaTeX into HTML using latex2html, but I had problems, so the version you see is something of a compromise.
And now the notes...  

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Michael Weiss

3/10/1998