Robert P. Crease is Professor in and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, where he has taught for more than three decades. He is the author of The Great Equations, The Prism and the Pendulum, and other books. A contributor of op-eds, articles, and reviews to publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, he writes a monthly column for Physics World.

Peter D. Bond is a retired physicist who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory for forty-three years in a wide variety of roles, including interim laboratory director during much of the period covered by this book.