Was ist Wirklichkeit? Das Verschwinden des Ettore Majorana

Under mysterious circumstances, the brilliant physicist Ettore Majorana disappeared 80 years ago during a crossing from Palermo to Naples. Since then, people have wondered how to explain the vanishing of one of the most promising scientists of his generation without a trace. The prevailing theory suggests that Majorana abandoned physics when he realized that nuclear fission would lead to the development of the atomic bomb. In his book, Agamben pursues a different hypothesis: starting from a precise analysis of the essay "The Meaning of Statistical Laws in Physics and the Social Sciences," published in German for the first time in this book, in which Majorana demonstrates how reality is resolved into probabilities in quantum physics, Agamben, drawing on ideas from Simone Weil, proposes to understand the physicist's disappearance as a radical experiment, transitioning from a real world to a probabilistic one, thereby questioning reality in a self-experiment.