Weather-beaten and remote, Helgoland is the treeless North Sea island to which 23-year old Werner Heisenberg fled to relieve his hay fever symptoms. Upon it he devised the theory of quantum mechanics, where the universe is made up of events and interactions rather than distinct substances, and no one better than the celebrated CR to distil such dizzying, subatomic science down to a wonderfully readable book.
Helgoland
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Edition:Hardback978024145469525/03/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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