Almost one hundred years ago, the project to reduce the world to mathematical physics failed suddenly and completely: “One of the best-kept secrets of science,†physicist Nick Herbert writes, “is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.†The world, we are now told, emerges spontaneously, out of “nothing,†and constitutes a “multiverse,†where “anything that can happen will happen, and it will happen an infinite number of times.†Legendary reclusive genius Wolfgang Smith demonstrates on shockingly obvious grounds the dead end at which physics has arrived, and how we can “return, at last, to the real world.†The End of Quantum Reality introduces this extraordinary man to a contemporary audience which has, perhaps, never encountered a true philos-sophia, one as intimately at ease with the rigors of quantum physics as with the greatest schools of human wisdom.
