A review by woolfen
When We Cease to Understand the World by BenjamÃn Labatut
5.0
4.5 Stars.
This book, about physics, and those who shaped it, is dark and dour. It looks at the abstraction and philosophising arising out of quantum mechanics - and the (fictional) results of the broad scope of genius, is dark horror at what is brought about from further and further abstracted and mastered maths and physics. The rearing, almost physical presence of the potential of physics, held in place by observation (a physics joke), looms. throughout this book, is almost Lovecraftian in terms of the resulting effects on the characters throughout the book and in its potential. I was not expecting this book to be so gripping and so well written.
This book, about physics, and those who shaped it, is dark and dour. It looks at the abstraction and philosophising arising out of quantum mechanics - and the (fictional) results of the broad scope of genius, is dark horror at what is brought about from further and further abstracted and mastered maths and physics. The rearing, almost physical presence of the potential of physics, held in place by observation (a physics joke), looms. throughout this book, is almost Lovecraftian in terms of the resulting effects on the characters throughout the book and in its potential. I was not expecting this book to be so gripping and so well written.