Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

The overly flower prose masks some promising ideas and the superficiality in areas that the author should have left aside. The ornate presentation also conceals the extent to which his relativistic interpretation does not deliver. Rovelli has obviously read widely but the book would have been better if he had shared less.

Although opaque in places, Rovelli's technical papers make a better case. The largely rhetorical presentation in this book does not require much background in quantum physics but fails to make anything resembling a persuasive case for the relational interpretation (in the form given by Rovelli) of quantum physics.