Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution (4)

Author

Carlo Rovelli

Genre

Popular Science, Physics, Philosophy of Science, History of Science

Synopsis

In this illuminating work, renowned physicist Carlo Rovelli takes readers to the remote island of Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg made the breakthrough that became quantum mechanics, forever changing our understanding of reality. Rovelli masterfully weaves together history, philosophy, and cutting-edge science to explain how quantum theory challenges our most basic assumptions about the nature of matter, observation, and existence itself. A profound meditation on what quantum mechanics reveals about the fundamental fabric of the universe and our place within it.