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IN November 1977 I attended a symposium at Columbia University to honor Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, an experimental physicist of the Los Alamos generation, a Nobel laureate, and a statesman of science. He was a founder of Brookhaven National Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). After a day of speeches by his colleagues, Rabi made a few remarks of his own. He chided physicists for failing to bring the excitement of physics to a larger public and said that they had done less than science fiction writers to communicate the spirit of science. Upon hearing his remarks I resolved to write this book a resolution supported by my friend John Brockmans instinct for intellectual excitement. With Johns gentle prodding I wrote a book proposal.
Many people, all friends, have made suggestions regarding style and content which have found their way into the final productKathryn Burkhart, Ashton Carter, Sidney Coleman, Rodney Cool, Gerald Feinberg, Daniel Greenberger, Mark Kac, Tony King, Linda Hess, Emily McCully, Richard Ogust, Hilary Putnam, and especially Eugene Schwartz and Arthur Miller whose criticisms helped me enormously. Many of my views on the problem of quantum reality grew out of delightfully humorous and informative discussions with Nicholas Herbert. I was also fortunate that the writing of this book coincided with the centennial year of Einsteins birth, 1979. In that year I attended three centennial symposia, one held at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., another in Jerusalem sponsored by the Israeli Academy of Science and the van Leer Foundation, and a third in New York City sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences. I benefited greatly from lectures at these meetings, especially those by Daniel Bell, Jeremy Bernstein, Erik Erikson, Loren Graham, Gerald Holton, Martin Klein, Arthur Miller, Abraham Pais, Wolfgang Panofsky, Dennis Sciama, Irwin Shapiro, Steven Weinberg, and John Wheeler. Articles by A. Pais and G. Holton on the early work of Einstein were especially useful. The second part of the book has been influenced by U. Amaldis CERN article on accelerators and scientific culture as well as the 1977 Dedalus article of Steven Weinberg. The third part of the book grew out of conversations with my friend Joseph H. Hazen.
It was my good fortune to find Matthew Zimet, who illustrated the book. His novel and humorous drawings do much to ease the burden of the text by delighting mind and eye.
A scientists greatest asset, the ability to concentrate productively on specific problems until they yield, can become a liability when he attempts to communicate his ideas to a nonscientist. Therefore my deepest debt is to my editors, Alice Mayhew and Catherine Shaw, who showed me how such communication was possible without a sacrifice in the clarity or integrity of ideas. If the reader obtains a better view of the forest of physics rather than of the trees, then I owe much to them.
I would like to thank the Aspen Center for Physics for its hospitality during the writing of this book.
Finally I want to thank my wife, Elaine, and my son, Mark, whose loving support made writing less a labor and more a creative challenge.
The reader interested in pursuing some of the material discussed in this book should consult the references below. This bibliography contains but a small portion of the literature on modern physicsit is hardly complete but serves as an introduction. Almost all these books and articles are written by physicists, a fact reflecting my own bias in the selection. Some books, while they may use mathematics, all contain material accessible and of interest to the general reader.
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Miller, Arthur I. Albert Einsteins Special Theory of Relativity; Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation (1905-1911). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1981.
Pais, Abraham. Einstein and the Quantum Theory. Reviews of Modern Physics , Vol. 51, No. 4 (1979).
Particles and Fields : Readings from Scientific American. With an introduction by William J. Kaufmann III. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1980.
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Trefil, James S. From Atoms to Quarks: An Introduction to the Strange World of Particle Physics . New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1980.
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