New book by Ianus van Altrideicktus

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If you are wondering whether his book is worth the high-price, let me quell your curiosity -- this kind of entertainment is priceless!
His analytic skills are ... well ... extraordinary.
His clarity of prose....inimitable.

My favorite chapter is the one where he explains how the Voynich code relates to quantum mechanics, wave function collapse, and crystal growth.

Here's a quote that will give tell you everything you need to know about him and his book:

[The suggested process] of decoding also appears analogous to this quantum scenario of wave function collapse. From the uncertain cloud of possible contexts spanned by the ciphertext, analogously represented by a wave function in quantum mechanics, a well-defined context emerges non-locally (holistically) through the decryption process, in terms of the uncertainty collapse of the context space.

This analogy suggests an inherently non-local connection and a highly non-linear interaction between the local and non-local cryptographic and linguistic features in the Voynich cipher: as the Voynich glyphs have multiple renderings, at the beginning of the decoding process, the actual renderings of the glyphs are floating (not specified yet), corresponding to local ambiguities, and the overall context is floating as well, representing non-local uncertainties. Then, through the self-interacting process of trial and error, at both levels, that is, in terms of the local glyph renderings and the non-local context nucleation, suddenly certainty sets in; at the local level, the Voynich glyphs attain their actual, sentence-specific renderings and at the non-local level, the synchronous, parallel collapse of the context space sets in as well, resulting in a well-defined context and offering a rationally comprehensible context of the investigated sentence. This way, the unknown elementary constituents (glyphs) define the whole (context, semantic content) and the whole determines the elementary constituents in an [sic] mutually intertwined way. Based on all these perplexing cryptologic and linguistic features, it appears that the Voynich code constitutes a non-local, context-dependent cipher that exhibits intriguing, quantum-like features. Isn't it magical?

Magical indeed!  The really amazing thing is, I remember a guy describing the very same ideas to me at a frat-house party in the 80's.