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Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre, Simon Carnell, Carlo Rovelli: Helgoland (2021, Penguin Books) 3 stars

In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, …

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3 stars

Author: "I'm a physicist, not a philosopher."

Also author: proceeds to spend half the book pondering the nature of meaning, knowledge, experience, and existence

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The first half of the book is an interesting history of quantum physics.

The second half of the book is a treatise on "quantum physics and the meaning of life" that remains beyond my ability to understand after a casual reading.

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Short, interesting, thought provoking. No reason not to read it if you have a free afternoon.