It is a crazy project by the magnitude of the subject (quantum theory, black body with Aspect experiments) and by the ambition to make this intelligible subject. This is not an easy book to read distractedly: you have to want to learn something. Although very large, the content of the book (physics, such as historic elements) is fairly traditional: all this can be found scattered in a multitude of Wikipedia articles. The originality of the book lies in three things. The patient and systematic, using many graphical methods, essential to appreciate mathematics of quantum theory; I think in particular the chapter on Grassmann numbers. The concern to explain the genesis of ideas (the Dirac equation for example) and techniques that form the current frame of quantum theory. The new and enlightening approach to certain issues, for example by choosing as a guideline the principle of least action.
The book suffers from the presence of shells which complicate the task of the player. Some are easy to identify, others are more troublesome. To understand the need to introduce loads of color, we use the example of the particle omega least that is formed of three quarks s (that is to say the same). If the s disappears publishing, as is the case, we no longer understand anything. As I'm not a beginner, I do not know the real impact of these shells on the understanding of the text.
