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Title: Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Physicist and the Matter of This World by Sheldon L. Glashow, Ben Bova ISBN: 0-446-51315-6 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: what it is like to be a physicist
Comment: This is only secondarily a book about particle physics. It offers only a little handwaving on the physics, much the way Glashow many have explained what he was doing to his mother.
It is about the people and politics of being a particle physicist.
One of the most interesting chapters is an extremely detailed account of what it was like to win a Nobel prize. He even shows you the menus of the various banquets.

Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful, fun, must-read for inquisitive minds.
Comment: Dr. Glashow presents in a logical progression the seminal ideas of twentieth century physics. He spices up this tantalizing but often dry material with a saucy seasoning of his personal life history, showing that Einstein was not the only scientist who did his best thinking in cafes and sailboats. The resulting story details the life of a modern crusader, less decadent than Petronius's Satyricon, less fanciful than Voltaire's Candide, but a heck of a lot more fun than learning these ideas by getting your own PhD in physics at Harvard.