bINSTANT iNEW YORK TIMESi BESTSELLERbrA iScience News ifavorite science book of 2019brbbrAs you read these words, copies of you are being created.b p bSean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world's most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of twentieth-century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, iSomething Deeply Hiddeni shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of relativity changes, well, everything. p Most physicists haven't even recognized the uncomfortable truth Physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps--which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the dead end of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on t