Helgoland : making sense of the quantum revolution / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.

"One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, Rovelli examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnervin...

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Main Author: Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Segre, Erica (Translator), Carnell, Simon, 1962- (Translator)
Other title:Helgoland. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
Edition:First North American edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Looking into the abyss
  • A strangely beautiful interior
  • A curious bestiary of extreme ideas
  • Is it possible that something is real in relation to you but not in relation to me?
  • The web of relations that weaves reality
  • The unambiguous description of an object includes the objects to which it manifests itself
  • "For nature it is a problem already solved"
  • But is it really possible?