Paradoxes, “the fuel of scientific progress”, fill a highly original book,
Conversations with the Sphinx by Etienne Klein (Souvenir Press, £18.99,
ISBN 0 285 63305 8). The author, a physicist at the Atomic Energy Commission in
Paris, covers everything from Olbers’ paradox to the paradox of the arrow of
time, from Schrödinger’s cat to the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky experiment.
Thought-provoking stuff. Highly recommended.
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