Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Sean Carroll Discuss Controversies in Quantum Mechanics
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Buy on Amazon"I'm reminded of the charming illustrated book series by George Gamow, Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, or something, and what he would do is—he's a business, famous business is mid-20th century. Okay, lived only just died only 20 years ago or so, but he, yeah, George Gamow, he was one of the original predictors of the temperature of the universe. Yeah, if the universe began as a explosion with the big bang, could you measure that?"
Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Buy on Amazon"One of my favorite stories is from the book 'Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist.' Oh yeah, LS...oh no, that's not it, or maybe it's not; I'm misremembering. Either it was fiction or I remember it as a memoir from Ernest Rutherford, who first showed how empty the atom is by passing...was it neutrons or alpha particles?"