In this beautiful book, Rovelli argues quite convincingly for the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics: The fundamental components of reality are interactions, not objects, and a particle only exist while it is interacting with something else.
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CMGX9 rated Consider Phlebas: 3 stars
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #1)
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced …
CMGX9 rated Introduction to quantum mechanics: 3 stars
CMGX9 rated Beyond good and evil: 4 stars
Beyond good and evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
V good
CMGX9 rated Foundation and Empire: 3 stars
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the …
CMGX9 rated Physics of Oscillations and Waves: 2 stars
CMGX9 rated FOUNDATION- PB: 3 stars
FOUNDATION- PB by Isaac Asimov
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend …
CMGX9 rated Accelerando: 4 stars
Accelerando by Charles Stross
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings …
CMGX9 rated Practical physics: 3 stars
CMGX9 rated God Emperor of Dune: 3 stars
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #4)
CMGX9 rated Rationality: From AI to Zombies: 5 stars
Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational," where you forsake all human feeling to embrace Cold …
CMGX9 rated 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories: 2 stars
Isaac Asimov: 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1985, Avon Books)
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories by Isaac Asimov
A loint of paw / Isaac Asimov -- The advent on Channel Twelve / C.M. Kornbluth -- Plaything / Larry …
CMGX9 rated Physics and beyond.: 3 stars
Werner Heisenberg: Physics and beyond. (1981, Allen & Unwin)
Physics and beyond. by Werner Heisenberg (World perspectives -- no.23)
CMGX9 reviewed Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, …
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4 stars
CMGX9 rated Snow Crash: 4 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …