
Helgoland
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Narrated by:
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Erica Segre
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David Rintoul
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The number one best-selling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physics.
In June 1925, 23-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts: quantum theory.
Almost a century later, quantum physics has given us many startling ideas: ghost waves, distant objects that seem magically connected to each other, cats that are both dead and alive. Countless experiments have led to practical applications that shape our daily lives. Today our understanding of the world around us is based on this theory. And yet it is still profoundly mysterious.
In this enchanting book, Carlo Rovelli, one of our most celebrated scientists, tells the extraordinary story of quantum physics and reveals its deep meaning: a world made of substances is replaced by a world made of relations, each particle responding to another in a never ending game of mirrors.
Shifting our perspective once again, Rovelli takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better understand our place in it.
©2021 Carlo Rovelli (P)2021 Penguin AudioChallenging ideas, understandable for non scientists, excellent interconexion between Physics and Philosophy.
Extraordinary!
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A story with substance or at least relation
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What is reality and how are we able to grasp it at all. The relational model for me was the first really accessible way of describing Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment other than collapsing wave functions etc.
Thanks Carlo.
The cat made accessible
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Rovelli is an artist and a genius.
what an illuminating journey!
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Inspiring
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Quantum mechanics demystified
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