If you had to read only two physics books in your life, make them these two. They can really change the way you think about the universe:
📕 Understanding Our Unseen Reality - Ruth E. Kastner (2015) - An awe inspiring book about the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, and how emission and absorption are key to define every physical interaction.
📕 Helgoland - Carlo Rovelli (2021) - Another great book about Relational Quantum Mechanics, and how Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, which predates Schrödinger's wave functions, already contains everything we need to understand the quantum world.
Also, check out this eight-part series on spacetime while considering the principles I discuss in my articles. You'll get a sense of what physicists are mostly getting right and what they're still missing:
