Sunday, 22 November 2015

LIFE OF A GENIUS - REVIEW OF WALTER ISAACSON'S "EINSTEIN"

I would not hesitate to say that Walter Isaacson's Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) is a stunning tour de force, even better than his recently published and much acclaimed biography of Steve Jobs.

Isaacson shows much affection and care towards his subject and has taken into consideration the new Einstein papers that became available in 2006.

Sunday, 1 November 2015

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE - REVIEW OF CROCA AND MOREIRA'S "NEW APPROACHES TO QUANTUM PHYSICS"

This book left me with an unsettled feeling. New Approaches to Quantum Physics: From Paradoxes to Nonlinearity (2015) has been written for the educated laymen by a couple of scientific dissenters - J R Croca and R N Moreira. In this book, the authors take on the entire physics establishment by attacking directly one of the most cherished thought structures of all time - The Copenhagen Interpretation (CI) of quantum mechanics.