Helgoland
by Carlo Rovelli
Heisenberg on a windswept island in 1925, and Rovelli's relational interpretation: things exist only in interaction. Philosophical quantum mechanics.
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Three things you will actually use
- Properties are relational.
- Nothing exists alone.
- Nagarjuna meets Heisenberg.
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