I wanted to share this snippet from Sebastian Faulkes’ Engleby, a novel set in the Cambridge of the 1970s.
Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet [...]
The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer.