Hello again, book-burners!
On this fourth episode of Books Are Burning!, my sometime co-author G.J. Villa and I continue our extended discussion of Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World. Our focus this time is the book’s fourth section, which has the same title as the book itself and centers on the scientific debate between Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg. The Heisenberg Blue background (color code = #70d4fb) of the graphic above represents the ultimate victory of Heisenberg’s theory of quantum mechanics, although the Heisenberg for whom the color is named is of course the fictional American meth manufacturer rather than the controversial German scientist:
The OG Heisenberg looked like this:
And here’s his arch nemesis, the apparently pedophiliac Schrödinger:
Speaking of apparent pedophilia, the reference to the predilections of the Dalai Lama at the end of the pod dates the recording to sometime in April of the current year.
Stay tuned for BAB! #5, in which Mr. Villa and I will discuss “The Night Gardener,” the concluding section of When We Cease to Understand the World.
MW
P.S. BAB! #3 has been posted to YouTube:
"When We Cease to Understand the World" - Benjamín Labatut's "When We Cease to Understand the World" (4/5)