“A REALITY that would be impossible to imagine, even for the possessor of the most tortured and surreal imagination.” This does not refer to a horror film, or a war veteran’s recollections, but to the world revealed by science, according to physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.
To those uncomfortable with quantum theory’s picture of wavelike particles that are simultaneously everywhere, their message in The Quantum Universe is clear: tough. Scientists are, they tell us, “not mandated to produce a theory that bears any relation to the way we perceive the world at large”, although you might comfort yourself with the thought that even Einstein…
