The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world INTRODUCTION: WHERE DID IT GO? Partl UNFORGETTABLE A BRIEF HISTORY OF THIS VERY IN... VISUALIZE THIS! Part Il ENTANGLEMENTS SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Part III THE UNIVERSE (WHICH OTHERS... GRAVITAS MADE TO MEASURE Part IV FREE WILL FORKING PATHS PUTTING THE DEMON TO REST POSTSCRIPT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY a note about the author