“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

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The New York Times bestseller: sequel to “Certainly You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”—funny, poignant, instructive.

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” is Feynman’s last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its many tales—some funny, others intensely moving—we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed at the same time as he worked nearby at the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given an interesting narrative of the investigation of the space commute Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Certainly You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Possibly essentially the most intriguing parts of the book are the at the back of-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to decide the reason for the Challenger space commute explosion; and the scientific sleuthing at the back of his famously elegant O-ring-in-ice-water demonstration. Not as rollicking as his other memoirs, but in some ways more profound.

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