Properties of Light
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0618154590 / Publisher: Mariner Books, November 2001
The obsessions, betrayals, and passions of three physicists--a brilliant theorist tormented by his lack of professional acclaim; his brilliant daughter, whose devotion to him causes tragedy for her lover; and her lover, her father's protTgT--threaten their work to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanics, including the very nature of light itself.
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With Properties of Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us “one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect . . . achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing on every page” (Charles Johnson). This mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual passion, three physicists grapple with mysteries of science as well as mysteries of the heart with consequences not even their finely honed intellects can predict. “Luminous, incendiary . . . Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable cosmologies” (New York Times Book Review).
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