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Quantum

Quantum

Quantum inheritance and the ongoing quest for meaning

18 May 2020
Taken from the May 2020 issue of Physics World.

Phillip Ball reviews Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser

In his new book of essays, David Kaiser explores quantum physics from a scientific, historical, economic and philosophical standpoint.
Interpretations In his new book of essays, David Kaiser explores quantum physics from a scientific, historical, economic and philosophical standpoint. (Courtesy: iStock/Pobytov)
Collections of essays often have an uncertain status. In the absence of any overarching message, the

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Philip Ball is a science writer based in London, UK. He is the author of Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different, which won the 2018 Physics World Book of the Year, e-mail p.ball@btinternet.com
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