As you read these words the world around you seems pretty solid, pretty stable: The device you're using seems to exist on its own, with its own properties of shape and weight and color. So does the ...

A journey into quantum physics Carlo Rovelli’s new book Helgoland takes its title from the name of a German island in the North Sea, where Werner Heisenberg developed some of his ideas about quantum ...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science 'Popular science has rarely been so good' Prospect 'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by ...

Italy’s CAM Film and Fremantle’s The Apartment have teamed up to acquire rights to bestselling Italian author Carlo Rovelli’s “Helgoland,” an origin story about quantum physics, with plans to turn the ...

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Carlo Rovelli, trans. from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Riverhead, $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-399-18441-3 This enchanting book from Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, looks at ...

Translated Mohammad-Ali Jafari, the book was originally published in 2017. It is a concise, elegant exploration of time from the bestselling author of “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics”, “Reality Is Not ...

In June 1925 Werner Heisenberg retreated to Helgoland in the North Sea, a treeless island offering the 23-year-old German physicist a space to think, along with some respite from the extreme hay fever ...