So you didn’t find the unfortunate consequences of the brilliant discoveries as described to be a downer, K?

Ok, will anticipate hearing a final report! 

Having investigated it a bit, I've just acquired an e-copy for the virtual TBR stack.  It looks a bit more serious than some of the space opera I've currently got lined up in there so I'll need to find the right mood before I start it.


 

I will send one on. I have two copies  because I made some kind of ordering error
I have finished it. It is primarily a work of fiction, and it does focus on the impossibility of really understanding where these theoretical physicists have gotten to in their thinking about quantum physics. But it did not leave me despondent. For several reasons.
first, I think it is a fine novel. Good art tends not to depress me even if the subject matter is a downer, because the ability of the  human mind to create beauty is uplifting.
second, I didn’t really think the subject matter was a downer. Not for me, anyway. The author perceives and discusses the dichotomy between the minds that require certainty in understanding the world, and minds that tolerate uncertainty, since the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is the dominant trend in physics theory, people who need certainty may well be despondent at the proposition that we can’t understand the world. But I don’t  think the author drew that conclusion himself, and at some level I don’t think the book is really about physics.
i hope you all read it and bring your thoughts to this discussion I do recommend it.