The Uncertainty Principle - The Effects of Dropping the Nuclear Bomb

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Rit is a physics text book that you would not use to study for your ap test. It is very straightforward about being partially fictionalized at different points. Labitude has said that, likoh, the fiction goes, the amount of fiction scales up throughout the book. Or else he's said like it's entirely fiction. He kind of just likes to have fun there, i think. For me, it was really exciting as a way to get to the emotional truth of these philos al ideas.

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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