Physics for the Feeble-Minded
Review by Jethro K. Lieberman
HELGOLAND: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
BY CARLO ROVELLI (Translated from the Italian by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell)
Riverhead, 256 pp., $20
CARLO ROVELLI’S newest book, is, the author writes, for readers “who are unfamiliar with quantum physics and are interested in trying to understand, as far as any of us can, what it is.” The field is not merely the stuff of academic esoterica, he assures us, but a realm of intense study about matter at its ultra-tiniest—and one that carries massive practical consequences. Not only Nobel Prizes but also financial fortunes can ride on quantum physicists’ findings, which propel technologies “from computers to nuclear
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