Helgoland
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  • Published: 24 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241508947
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $35.00

Helgoland

The Sunday Times bestseller

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29 Nov 2022
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25 Mar 2021
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24 Jun 2021
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The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physics

In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts: quantum theory.

Almost a century later, quantum physics has given us many startling ideas - ghost waves, distant objects that seem magically connected to each other, cats that are both dead and alive. At the same time, countless experiments have led to practical applications that shape our daily lives. Today our understanding of the world around us is based on this theory. And yet it is still profoundly mysterious.

In this enchanting book, Carlo Rovelli, one of our most celebrated scientists, tells the extraordinary story of quantum physics and reveals its deep meaning: a world made of substances is replaced by a world made of relations, each particle responding to another in a never ending game of mirrors.

Shifting our perspective once again, Rovelli takes us on a riveting journey through the universe so we can better understand our place in it.
  • Published: 24 June 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241508947
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Carlo Rovelli

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique théorique in Marseille, France. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Helgoland, Reality Is Not What It Seems and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into forty-three languages.

Also by Carlo Rovelli

The Order of Time
Reality Is Not What It Seems
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Anaximander
White Holes
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Praise for Helgoland

With the publication of his million-selling book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Rovelli took his place with Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman as one of the great popularisers of modern theoretical physics

Sam Leith, Spectator

Modern physics has found its poet. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist

John Banville, Irish Times

A global superstar. . . Rovelli is making the grammar of the universe accessible to a new generation

Channel 4 News

The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest explainer of physics

Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

The man who makes physics sexy. . . the new Hawking. . . His writing is luminous. By the time I had finished reading Seven Brief Lessons on Physics I was in serious awe of the author

David Aaronovitch, The Times