Alexander Masters

The windswept German island that inspired quantum physics

Carlo Rovelli describes Werner Heisenberg’s efforts to understand the wayward behaviour of atoms, and ends up questioning whether reality exists

(Photo by PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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