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Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics

A tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual passion, three physicists grapple with mysteries of science as well as mysteries of the heart with consequences not even their finely honed intellects can predict.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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