Something Deeply Hidden

 By the time you have read this, thousands of copies of you will have been created. Physicist Sean Carroll’s breathtaking new book has been hailed as a masterpiece. Already a bestseller in Europe, Something Deeply Hidden shows us for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time.  His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics  has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is,  how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the dead end of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll proves that physics is ready to be transformed once again by insights from science fiction . . . .