Helgoland Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
2022·256 pages
A lucid popular-science account of quantum theory’s birth on Helgoland and Rovelli’s relational view of reality as interactions.
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A lucid popular-science account of quantum theory’s birth on Helgoland and Rovelli’s relational view of reality as interactions.
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In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrestled with an idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world. In Helgoland Carlo Rovelli tells the story of the birth of quantum physics and its bright young founders who were to become some of the most famous Nobel winners in science. It is a ...
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