Library Live at Labyrinth will present Paul Halpern discussing his book The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality at Labyrinth Books on Thursday, December 14 at 6 p.m.

According to a starred review in Booklist, “Readers soon see that Feynman achieved his breakthroughs in physics by collaborating with his mentor, John Wheeler …. With the same clarity that has attracted readers to Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat and his other books of popular science, Halpern retraces the way this unlikely pair smashed traditional understandings of time …. A compelling reminder that even the most triumphant science comes from vulnerable humans.” 

Nature comments, “Feynman was a doer, Wheeler a dreamer. So Paul Halpern aptly describes them in The Quantum Labyrinth, his book about their lives, work and friendship, and the virtues of their complementary styles …. Feynman was one of the greatest intuitive problem-solvers in 20th-century physics, a world-class doer. But I suspect that many readers will take most pleasure from the account of Wheeler’s inspired dreaming.”

Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and the author of 15 popular science books, most recently Einstein’s Dice and Schrödinger’s Cat.