It took me ages to get through this and honestly I don’t think I understood most of it cuz doing so eventually required too much effort. As such I probably shouldn’t even be rating it.. so take my 3 stars with a grain of salt. I get the sense that it’s well written and do like the narrative side of it, but it was very long and very heady. Maybe I’ll return to it another time after I have a better understanding of the underlying concepts of quantum theory

A solid and competent portrayal of the development of the quantum theory, with an emphasis on how subjective all science is.

Exhilarating account of perhaps the longest running debate in modern physics.

This was a ride

Such an enjoyable read!!!!! I especially love the last 60% of the book despite some detail historical traits, which I also appreciate but expect more of the technical aspect in the development of the quantum theories.
This reminds me so much of how much I love and adore non fiction physics with historical academia where the darkest thing is the creation of atomic bomb. The realistic and voice in such books made me distanced myself from dark academia but it is hard to contemplate such extreme when you got used to a more realistic historical view.

Short review: This is really the story of a classic paradigm shift in science. (Shift from Newtonian to Quantum Physics) It is more history than science writing. I learned some of the concepts of physics but it is sort of like watching a documentary about Citizen Kane. You find out why something was new and important, even if you don't really fully understand the whole picture.

Part of what is interesting is that the last hour of audio is a post script talking about where science has gone since Einstein and Bohr. The whole fundamental nature of our understanding of reality has changed in the last 110 years. It is easy to forget how much what we know (as a society, not we as individual people) that was considered heresy 100 years ago.

It is also interesting to really look at how specific and focused science has become. I had friends that were married while I was in grad school in University of Chicago. He was working on a PhD in Physics and she a PhD in bio-chemistry. They said they had a hard time even reading one another's papers let along understanding them.

Longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/quantum-einstein-bohr-and-the-great-debate-about-the-nature-of-reality-by-manjit-kumar/

Sehr umfangreiche aber gut lesbare Geschichte der Kopenhagener Deutung der Quantentheorie und der damit verbundenen Debatte zwischen Niels Bohr und Albert Einstein. Auch die Physik wird anspruchsvoll aber gerade noch verständlich erklärt.