What Is Real?

I picked up What Is Real? by Adam Becker whilst on a short break—and it pulled me right in. It’s one of those books that, while demanding your full attention as it weaves you into quantum theory, completely transports you.

Einstein, Schrödinger, Bohr, Heisenberg—their debates weren’t just abstract thought experiments but real, deep philosophical rifts that shaped physics as we know it. And what’s fascinating is that science could have taken a very different turn.

Still working through it, but the way quantum mechanics intertwines wave functions, particles, and probabilities is mind-bending. It also makes you reflect—especially when you contrast it with something like Autobiography of a Yogi. There’s an odd resonance between the quantum world’s uncertainty and the metaphysical ideas of consciousness and reality.

It’s in these intersections—science, philosophy, and the unexplored—that things get truly interesting. That’s crypt too, btw. Have a good week end 💭