The Veiled Box
The riddle of observation, from Schrödinger's cat to quantum computers
When no one is looking, is anything happening?
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Coming soon. 90 pages, full colour.
About the book
For a hundred years the most successful theory in science has refused to say. Quantum mechanics runs every chip, laser and MRI scanner, and it has never failed a test. Physicists still argue about what it says about reality.
The Veiled Box follows that argument from Planck and Bohr to Schrödinger's cat, Bell's theorem and the quantum computers of today. In ink and gold, it sets out the four ways out that physicists have found (many worlds, hidden variables, collapse, and perspective), what each one buys, what each one costs, and the experiments that are closing in on them.
A graphic novel to read twice: once for the story, once for the ideas. With endnotes, glossary and further reading.
What is in the book
- A prologue and four acts, from the double slit to the quantum computer
- The four ways out: many worlds, hidden variables, collapse and perspective
- The experiments, from Aspect and Delft to the Big Bell Test
- Endnotes, a glossary and further reading
Sources
The book's endnotes give the papers and experiments behind every page.
Look inside
The opening page
Schrödinger's cat, 1935
The first way out: many worlds
Pick an answer, pick a world
From the cat to the qubit
Watch
The four ways out
The Reader’s Companion
Every page has a ghost. For every page of the book, the companion gives the same page faded, with a short plain note over each panel and a closing paragraph on why the page matters. No physics needed. Not a textbook, and not a list of questions and answers: a second, slower reading of the same book.
Black and white, 82 pages. Coming soon, alongside the book.
Questions
Do I need to know any physics?
No. The book starts from one question and builds everything else from it. The Reader's Companion explains every page in plain words.
When is it out?
Soon, as a full-colour paperback, with the Reader's Companion beside it. Sign up below and you will get one email when it is.
How was the book made?
The artwork is made with AI image tools under the author's direction, and the book says so. How these books are made
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