With Properties of Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us “one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect . . . achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing on every page” (Charles Johnson). This mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual passion, three physicists grapple with mysteries of science as well as mysteries of the heart with consequences not even their finely honed intellects can predict.
Chronicles the quest of three physicists seeking to reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity theory...bewitchingly ethereal...gracefully deconstructs our contradictory impulses.
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Language:
English
Length:
256 pages
Author:
Rebecca Goldstein
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