Loving Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving 15-year-old. Richard invented the atom bomb; Catherine’s just trying to survive school.

When your life is falling apart around you, is talking to a dead physicist normal? Catherine thinks so, but it isn’t until her life begins unravelling that she learns who she can really trust.

I’ve been looking at you while I sit at my desk, and imagining what you were like as a person. In the poster you look like you’re concentrating hard on the machine you’re working on but having fun at the same time. I get that feeling when I’m working on a difficult Maths problem. In the picture your hair is a bit mad, really curly and there’s lots of it. I like it though. In fact, you were pretty cute in 1943. Of course, even then you were far too old for me, probably in your 20s.