EINSTEIN'S DICE AND SCHRODINGER'S CAT How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

Sean Runnette is an excellent narrator for this double biography of two great physicists, which focuses on their brief period of conflict in the late 1940s. In illuminating these two extraordinary personalities, Einstein and Schrodinger, Halpern shows an entire generation’s contribution to theoretical physics. The author has a knack for explaining scientific concepts in comprehensible terms, no easy thing, and Runnette is up to the task, too. His command of technical terms and place names in English and German is almost flawless. While his soft, warm baritone can be slightly soporific in the book's slower sections, he manages the almost impossible by consistently distinguishing the names of Max Born and Niels Bohr. (Halpern uses only last names.) This work is a significant addition to the intellectual history of twentieth-century physics. F.C. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE 2015]