Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: Astrophysicists Explore Space, Time, & The Insides of Atoms
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Buy 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..."
Slaughterhouse-Five
Buy 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!"