It’s difficult to describe this book, which reads less like a novel, and more like a collection of historical essays featuring a cast of real-life theoretical physicists like Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Einstein, and Niels Bohr. Though the people are real, the anecdotes about them are fabricated to highlight the fine line between genius and insanity, scientific progress and destruction. I read this book in a single sitting, then immediately flipped back to page one and started it again.
