Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland argues that all reality is relative
The author uses relational quantum physics to insist nothing we see and experience actually exists.
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Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks is a science writer and a former editor of New Scientist magazine. His work includes Entanglement (2007) and The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook (2017).
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