Lauma Pret reviewed Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Review of 'Copenhagen' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
What do you do, when the show in the theater you attended last night does not let you go? You do some searching, find the book and read the play to relive it again. Copenhagen lets you dream about the age when fundamental science come to be through heated debate of the greatest scientists, still preserving those scientists as human beings - emotional, confused, vulnerable and afraid of the war they are later captured in. The play retells you important events of the friendship between Heisenberg and Bohr, offers you to get to know both of them, but in the end you have to devise your own conclusion - what did Heisenberg wanted to say in Copenhagen, 1941? Because no-one will ever know for sure. We even might suspect that Heisenberg himself did not know that.
My compliments on tying together scientifical explanations - they are accessible, but not dumbed …
What do you do, when the show in the theater you attended last night does not let you go? You do some searching, find the book and read the play to relive it again. Copenhagen lets you dream about the age when fundamental science come to be through heated debate of the greatest scientists, still preserving those scientists as human beings - emotional, confused, vulnerable and afraid of the war they are later captured in. The play retells you important events of the friendship between Heisenberg and Bohr, offers you to get to know both of them, but in the end you have to devise your own conclusion - what did Heisenberg wanted to say in Copenhagen, 1941? Because no-one will ever know for sure. We even might suspect that Heisenberg himself did not know that.
My compliments on tying together scientifical explanations - they are accessible, but not dumbed down to the extent to strip you of believing that Bohr and Heisenberg could have actually said something like that.
