📚 2 Books mentioned in "Astrophysicists Explore Space, Time, & The Insides of Atoms" of StarTalk Radio
Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: Astrophysicists Explore Space, Time, & The Insides of Atoms
Published on June 8, 2024
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Slaughterhouse-Five
Buy Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut on Amazon
That's the theme in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, where the protagonist is in his backyard and he's lifted up by aliens—which I always want to have happen to me when I go to anybody's backyard at night and I look up!
Neil refers to the novel 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut, discussing its theme of the protagonist's experiences and his longing for extraordinary events in mundane settings.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Buy The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Phillips Feynman on Amazon
Richard Feynman tells the story in his work; he wrote a lot, of course, about physics, about this conversation that he had with John Wheeler about the one-electron universe. But I need you to tell it because...
Neil discusses how Richard Feynman wrote about his conversation with John Wheeler regarding the one-electron universe in his physics works. In this setup, Neil encourages further exploration of the story.