Helgoland - Carlo Rovelli
The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
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The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science
Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Prospect
'Popular science has rarely been so good' Prospect
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 celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place.
Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us...
Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Prospect
'Popular science has rarely been so good' Prospect
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 celebration of youthful rebellion and intellectual revolution. An invitation to a magical place.
Here Rovelli illuminates competing interpretations of this science and offers his own original view, describing the world we touch as a fabric woven by relations. Where we, as every other thing around us...
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Penguin Books: Dublin, 2021. Paperback 187 pp. Translation: Erica Sergre, Simon Carnell. Acknowledgements, notes, index. 19.8x13x1.4 cm. Near fine. [Categorie: Physics] [Auteur: Rovelli, Carlo.] [Pagina's: 187] [Titel: Helgoland: The strange and beatiful story of Quantum Phhysics.]
