THE QUANTUM LABYRINTH

In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The so ft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boistero us Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet they were complementary spirits. Their collaboration led to ...[Read more]