Quantum Man Richard Feynman's Life in Science

by Krauss, Lawrence M.

• ISBN13: 9780393340655
• ISBN10: 0393340651
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-26
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits. From the death of Feynman'¬"s childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his reluctant rise as a scientific icon, we see Feynman'¬"s life through his science, providing a new understanding of the legacy of a man who has fascinated millions.

Author Biography

Lawrence M. Krauss is the director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare public intellectual, he is the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and seven books, including the best-selling The Physics of Star Trek.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
The Paths to Greatness
Lights, Camera, Action	p. 3
The Quantum Universe	p. 18
A New Way of Thinking	p. 36
Alice in Quantumland	p. 51
Endings and Beginnings	p. 59
Loss of Innocence	p. 76
Paths to Greatness	p. 92
From Here to Infinity	p. 108
Splitting an Atom	p. 124
Through a Glass Darkly	p. 141
The Rest of the Universe
Matter of the Heart and the Heart of Matter	p. 163
Rearranging the Universe	p. 180
Hiding in the Mirror	p. 193
Distractions and Delights	p. 218
Twisting the Tail of the Cosmos	p. 233
From Top to Bottom	p. 263
Truth, Beauty, and Freedom	p. 287
Character Is Destiny	p. 314
Acknowledgments and Sources	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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