-This is a delightful account of one of the deepest and most fascinating explorations going on today at the frontier of our knowledge.- -Carlo Rovelli, bestselling author of The Order of Time and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
-Musser knows that the point of popular science is [. . .] to get a sense of what-s at stake, what kinds of answers are being offered to difficult questions, and why it all matters. One could not ask more of Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation-on all three counts it delivers.- -Julian Baggini, The Wall Street Journal
A revelatory exploration of how a -theory of everything- depends upon our understanding of the human mind.
The whole goal of physics is to explain what we observe. For centuries, physicists believed that observations yielded faithful representations of what is out there. But when they began to study the subatomic realm, they found that observation often interferes with what is being
