Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

Carlo Rovelli, one of the world’s most famous theoretical physicists, has enchanted millions of readers with his unusual perspective on the universe. In Helgoland, he explores the enduring riddle of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is nerve-racking. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea, where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made a decisive breakthrough in the creation of quantum mechanics—sparking a century-long scientific revolution.