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Books

Nature Loves to Hide by Shimon Malin

Sam Nico commends Shimon Malin’s illuminating look at the philosophy in quantum physics.

One could be forgiven for assuming that this was yet another book from the popularising-of-science stable, written to assuage the general public’s unquenchable thirst for them. This book, however, is the most lucid account of the significance and implications of quantum theory written to date. When Stephen Hawking was writing A Brief History of Time, he was warned not to use equations as each one would halve the sales (and yet he still managed to write a text that few understand). Malin never has a use for them, and writes as one dedicated to elucidation. He proceeds step by step, frequently summing up the main points.

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