One day Bill Charmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is or even who he is. His memory returns and he descends into a mental nightmare. With no conclusive medical answers, his wife thinks he is imagining it, while his colleagues are oblivious to his suffering.

In a compilation of essays written over the past two decades, the author of Einstein's Dreams reflects on the dependence of a ballerina on the laws of physics, the unscientific nature of discovery, the mystery of human flight without propellers, and the scientists' choices between theorizing and tinkering. Original.

Discusses new astronomical discoveries about the makeup of the universe, and predicts how they will change the study of astronomy in the next ten years

The science consultant and columnist lucidly establishes the connections between the farther reaches of scientific theory and research and everyday life

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