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384 pages, Hardcover
First published March 30, 2018
Looking out your window and saying, “It’s raining outside” [would be foolish because it] assumes that your view through the window’s glass gives you an accurate picture of the outside world, and that your eyes are functioning properly, and that the dimmed light and falling droplets are in fact caused by a rain cloud and not an alien spaceship blotting out the Sun and dropping some exotic substance onto your front lawn.
"Neumann’s work in Germany with David Hilbert culminated in his book 'The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics' (1932), which reconciled the apparently contradictory theories of Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg. It concluded that quantum phenomena really were indeterminate, not the result of as yet undiscovered deterministic physics. This convinced most physicists to accept the indeterminacy of the quantum world. Albert Einstein, however, refused to abandon his belief in determinism, insisting that “God does not play dice.""