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Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution by Carlo Rovelli
5.0
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★
I stand truely with Neil Gaiman when he said 'Carlo Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator'. The book Helgoland is the story of evolution of Quantum Mechanics, it's strange and peculiar laws and hypothesis and what is its future.
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, father of Quantum Mechanics, 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 ween the idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world.
This was the start of a great field - Quantum Mechanics.
In the book, Carlo Rovelli goes through the riveting history of great minds who contributed in the development of the idea of Quantum. In between of prose, Carlo gives us some gripping facts which will enrapture the reader so much (at least it did for me) that makes the book unputdownable.
So you will ask, there are many books written on the history of Quantum Mechanics and conceptualization of the same. What makes this book different?
Carlo has written the book in a neighbourly way that would make the reader feel like he is talking with a friend and that friend is none other than you! He cracks even some jokes in between of paragraphs.
Carlo's field of expertise is Quantum Gravity and he is also a professor so there is so much expected from him to explain us about this thought-provoking field and this is where he succeeds.
The book is divided into 5 parts and the first two parts of it is like introduction with the history of Quanta and then the author moves to explain some of the unanswered questions and hypothesis of the nature's law from the view of Quantum. No matter you are the novice, apprentice or an expert you would certainly like this masterpiece.
“Rovelli tackles both the quantum realm and the ways it helps us make sense of the mind with refreshing clarity and without hand-wavy mystery-mongering” —The New York Times Book Review
The discovery of quantum theory, I believe, is the discovery that the properties of any entity are nothing other than the way in which that entity influences others. This is how Carlo described the quantum theory.
★★★★★
I stand truely with Neil Gaiman when he said 'Carlo Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator'. The book Helgoland is the story of evolution of Quantum Mechanics, it's strange and peculiar laws and hypothesis and what is its future.
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, father of Quantum Mechanics, 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 ween the idea that would transform the whole of science and our very conception of the world.
This was the start of a great field - Quantum Mechanics.
In the book, Carlo Rovelli goes through the riveting history of great minds who contributed in the development of the idea of Quantum. In between of prose, Carlo gives us some gripping facts which will enrapture the reader so much (at least it did for me) that makes the book unputdownable.
So you will ask, there are many books written on the history of Quantum Mechanics and conceptualization of the same. What makes this book different?
Carlo has written the book in a neighbourly way that would make the reader feel like he is talking with a friend and that friend is none other than you! He cracks even some jokes in between of paragraphs.
Carlo's field of expertise is Quantum Gravity and he is also a professor so there is so much expected from him to explain us about this thought-provoking field and this is where he succeeds.
The book is divided into 5 parts and the first two parts of it is like introduction with the history of Quanta and then the author moves to explain some of the unanswered questions and hypothesis of the nature's law from the view of Quantum. No matter you are the novice, apprentice or an expert you would certainly like this masterpiece.
“Rovelli tackles both the quantum realm and the ways it helps us make sense of the mind with refreshing clarity and without hand-wavy mystery-mongering” —The New York Times Book Review
The discovery of quantum theory, I believe, is the discovery that the properties of any entity are nothing other than the way in which that entity influences others. This is how Carlo described the quantum theory.