Reading

I have some how managed to finish a book that I have been reading for the last couple of weeks or so.

The book is called The Strangest man and its by Graham Farmelo is about the Quantum genius Paul Dirac.

I have to admit that I had already heard of Dirac and what one of his discoveries was in the world of Quantum physics. So finding a book on this bloke it was always to me going to be interesting to see what made this man tick.

I don't think the book pulls that part off completely, and from what I know understand of the man I don't think any book will capture what or how Dirac ticked.

The book makes it very clear that Dirac saw the world in a different way and that may have been the reason why he was so good at what he did.

One sad fact that this book reinforces for me is that must original thought in the bleeding edge of human thought appears to me over by your late thirties, which from some of my reading appears to hold if you are male or female and it does not matter from part of the planet you are from.

Anyway back to the book.

The is well worth reading as it does explain the man and the world that he was brought up in and what the state of human knowledge was with the atom and all that sort of stuff in the late thirties, so well worth the time.