A distinguished physicist propose a dramatic new way of understanding and interpreting the fundamental laws of sicence that will open up human thinking to the vast possibilities of the universe. 60,000 first printing.
Robert Laughlin is the Robert M. and Anne Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985. In 1998 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the fractional quantum Hall effect. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He lives in Palo Alto, California.