Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Elusive Structure of the Universe and the Journey to Quantum Gravity
Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed...
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Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?
Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed throughout centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity. Taking us on a wondrous journey, he invites us to imagine a whole new world where black holes are waiting to explode, spacetime is made up of grains, and infinity does not exist -- a vast universe still largely undiscovered.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141983219
Publish date: 2017-06-01
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
"The world of quantum mechanics is not a world of objects: it is a world of events". In "Reality Is Not What It Seems" by Carlo Rovelli Rovelli is more than right to rail against the schism of art and science. Theoretical physics in some sense is the poetry of science; and science in its gre...
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