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Helgoland

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Helgoland

Von: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
Gesprochen von: David Rintoul
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physics

In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts: quantum theory.

Almost a century later, quantum physics has given us many startling ideas: ghost waves, distant objects that seem magically connected to each other, cats that are both dead and alive. Countless experiments have led to practical applications that shape our daily lives. Today our understanding of the world around us is based on this theory. And yet it is still profoundly mysterious.

In this enchanting book, Carlo Rovelli, one of our most celebrated scientists, tells the extraordinary story of quantum physics and reveals its deep meaning: a world made of substances is replaced by a world made of relations, each particle responding to another in a never ending game of mirrors.

Shifting our perspective once again, Rovelli takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better understand our place in it.

© Carlo Rovelli 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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With the publication of his million-selling book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics (Sam Leith)
Modern physics has found its poet. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist (John Banville)
A global superstar. . . Rovelli is making the grammar of the universe accessible to a new generation
The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics (Bryan Appleyard)
The man who makes physics sexy. . . the new Hawking. . . His writing is luminous. By the time I had finished reading Seven Brief Lessons on Physics I was in serious awe of the author (David Aaronovitch)
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Carlo Rovelli knows not only how to use that head of his to think hard and fast, but is also capable of explaining mind boggling topics in every day language so that it becomes entertaining. 10 / 10, 4h well spend.

Food for thought

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You have to listen to this audiobook! It starts with the discovery of Quantum Physics and ends with the way the mind works, two of the things that really fascinate me.

Most interesting

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I very much enjoyed listening to this book. Helgoland willl for this listener now remain as an almost mythical place where Heisenberg glimpsed for the first time deeper truths about the quantum reality of our universe.
Rovelli writes the most beautiful prose of any living writer in the genre of popularised physics. I’ve listened to a lot of titles about physics, and his books do stand out both for their clarity but also elegant and succinct phrasing and composition.
His exposition of the different interpretations of quantum physics was very good. I also thought his take down and critique in the final section of Chamers and Nagel’s ideas about consciousness were right up my alley…
I’ll order the book as paperback today.

Helgoland remembered

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