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.

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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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