My View of the World
Two long essays written thirty-five years apart, in which a Nobel physicist asks why there appears to be only one world when billions of observers are looking.
The founder of wave mechanics turns to Vedanta, consciousness, and the question of why there appears to be only one world despite billions of observers. Two long essays written thirty-five years apart, on either side of his Nobel Prize, were published together late in his life. It is the most philosophically exposed of his books, and the one where the physics gives way entirely to the metaphysics.
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Maria Popova
That is what the Nobel-winning founding father of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger (August 12, 1887–January 4, 1961) addresses in some exquisite passages from My View of the World (public library) — the slender, daring deathbed book containing two long essays penned on either side of his Nobel Prize, thirty-five years apart yet united by the unbroken thread of his uncommon mind unafraid of its own capacity for feeling, that vital capacity for living fully into the grandest open questions of existence.
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