What's the Difference Between Fiction and Fiction?

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The ideas are all real, but sometimes the ways that labatoute presents them is through a sort of semi fictional lens. He doesn't always tell you when he's stepping off of the historical record into this more fantastical realm. Oe, so that's a really big break in how sciences thought about science itself and about reality. And to be super clear, i'm not a physicist or someone with experts in these concepts. So i reached out to preanata ragen to help me.

In the 1920s, the scientist Werner Heisenberg came up with a wild idea that broke reality as Western science knew it. And it's still unsettling to think about. Benjamin Labatut's recent book, When We Cease to Understand the World, makes readers feel the aftershocks of the revelation, asking, "What's real?"

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