After reading In Search of Schrödinger’s cat by John Gribbin I decided to also read this sequel not really knowing what to expect. His first book is a more or less traditional explanation of quantum mechanics and its bizarre description of reality. Ever since its conception physicists and philosophers have been struggling with the interpretation of quantum mechanics. This has been so difficult that the physicist community in general stopped trying to understand quantum mechanics at a fundamental level and limited itself to using quantum mechanics to calculate and predict. The first book came out in 1984 and Schrödinger’s kittens…

I read this book a little while ago in October mainly because it was short and I was behind on my reading target for 2025. It is barely 50 pages thick and I read a couple of other books by Piet Vroon long ago that I liked very much. Unfortunately, the quality of the book is in line with its title, which in English would be something like botch job. It was written as a companion to an exposition in very short time and is not very coherent. Piet Vroon was a Dutch psychologist that became famous and wrote a…