A Passion for Discovery
The human side of doing
theoretical physics is explored through stories about the interactions between
physicists and about the way world events can affect not only the scientists'
behavior, but even their scientific interests and style. These stories
cluster nicely around certain bigger themes to create an overarching
whole. This happens both on account of some interesting narrative structures
intrinsic to the science of Physics itself and on account of the way Physics
integrates into the general culture. The stories concern Einstein, Schrödinger,
Pauli, Heisenberg,