When We Cease to Understand the World
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Fritz Haber invents poison gas and fertilizer. Schwarzschild solves Einstein's equations in the trenches. Heisenberg and Schrödinger race toward quantum mechanics — and madness. Labatut blurs fiction and history to ask: what happens when human understanding reaches the edge of what minds can bear?