FURTHER READING
Adair, Robert K. The Great Design: Particles, Fields, and Creation. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. A careful and serious account of particle physics by a Yale University physicist who, intent on avoiding popular oversimplification, uses plenty of algebra to engage the scientifically minded reader. Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. A thought-provoking and philosophical examination of the concept of wholeness, knitting together insights into religion, history, and literature, by one of Britain's leading theoretical physicists.
Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Second Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. The classic study of the meeting of East and West on the field of modern physics, with pictures of everything from meditating monks to bubble-chamber tracks, by a physicist bent on finding parallels wherever possible.
Davies, Paul, and J.R. Brown. The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics. London: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Interviews with John Bell, David Deutsch, John Wheeler, David Bohm, and other philosophically minded physicists, first aired on the BBC and later collected into a slender book with a superbly concise introduction.
Davies, Paul. God and the New Physics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. Time, black holes, quantum theory, free will and determinism, the self, and other heady subjects, as seen through the lens of modern physics by a British theoretical physicist who knows how to explain complex subjects.
Glashow, Sheldon L., with Ben Bova. Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World. New York: Warner Books, 1988. This lucid, lively first-person account, by a Nobel Prize-winning Harvard physicist who teaches a course in physics for non-specialists, demands and rewards a patient reader.
Hawking, Stephen W. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. One of the best books for laymen on this subject in many years by one of the greatest cosmologists of our time, who delights in the mysteries of his subject without descending into mysticism.
Herbert, Nick. Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985. The soundest and most helpful of the general studies of quantum physics, by a former research physicist who bases his discussion solidly on what the physicists themselves are saying.
Kevles, Daniel J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. New York: Knopf, 1977. A penetrating look by a widely respected historian of science at the human side of physics from the late 19th century to the present, weaving individual biographies and particular discoveries into a tapestry that includes funding battles, political tensions, and social changes in a maturing America.
Pagels, Heinz R. The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. A first-person and pleasantly garrulous sweep from modern physics into cosmology, by a practicing physicist whose healthy skepticism regarding the mystical doesn't prevent him from enjoying and explaining the weirdness of the quantum world.
Parker, Barry. Search for a Supertheory: From Atoms to Superstrings. New York: Plenum Press, 1987. How we got from 19th-century views of the atom to today's cutting-edge superstring theory, as told in layman's language by a physics professor and prizewinning science writer.
Riordan, Michael. The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. An engaging and highly readable tale of the discovery of some of the fundamental particles in the 1970s, by a man who saw the process firsthand as a graduate student in physics.
Wilbur, Ken, ed. Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists. Boston: New Science Library/Shambhala, 1984. A useful collection of essays by Heisenberg, Schr"odinger, Einstein, DeBroglie, Jeans, Planck, and Eddington, which despite its tendentious title allows the profound writings of these physicists to speak for themselves.
CREDITS Photographers contributing to this series include: R. Norman Matheny, Neal Menschel, and Melanie Stetson Freeman from the Monitor staff. Editorial and production assistance by Greg Lamb, special projects editor. Contributions to graphics by Robert C. Cowen and Robin Johnston, science writers of the Monitor. In addition the Monitor would like to thank the many physicists who shared their comments on the finer points of quantum mechanics. The photo illustration used throughout this series was produced by 5000K Color Studio, Boston.
