Boltzmann's Tomb by Bill Green

Author:Bill Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 2011-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

I stayed only a year in Washington. During that time I read not a single word of Schilpp’s book on Einstein. I made the varsity baseball team, played in Maryland and Virginia and around the South. My father would drive his old Pontiac down from Pittsburgh to see the games. I stayed in touch with McMullen, who wrote to me about college and his new Mustang and his nights at the drive-ins and the young ladies he was meeting. I wrote long letters to Mary and to my family. I still have drafts of some of those letters. But I cannot read them today without wincing at their certitude, their youthful preachiness. In the spring, my lab instructor, Sally Sheehan, told me I would make a good chemist and that I should give some thought to changing my major. I thanked her for the advice and told her I had really enjoyed her course.

Schilpp’s book stood untouched on my shelves for many years. When Barbara and I taught our course on scientific revolutions, I took it down and reread what Einstein had written about himself and what Bohr and others had written about him. The book had been published in 1951. The receipt from Walleck’s bookstore in Pittsburgh for $1.37 was where I had left it long ago, somewhere near page ten.

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