Reality Is Not What It Seems; The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Rovelli, Carlo; Simon Carnell [trans.]; Erica Segra [trans.]
Language: English
Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2017
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- Title
- Reality Is Not What It Seems; The Journey to Quantum Gravity
- Author
- Rovelli, Carlo; Simon Carnell [trans.]; Erica Segra [trans.]
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2017
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0735213925
- ISBN 13
- 9780735213920
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- Science & Technology
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Helgoland, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.
What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells us how our understanding of reality has changed over the centuries and how physicists think about the structure of the universe today.
In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Democritus to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to gravitational waves, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers deeper explanations of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics.
This book culminates in a lucid overview of quantum gravity, the field of research that explores the quantum nature of space and time, seeking to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. Rovelli invites us to imagine a marvelous world where space breaks up into tiny grains, time disappears at the smallest scales, and black holes are waiting to explode—a vast universe still largely undiscovered.
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About the Author
Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is the head of the Quantum Gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University. He is one of the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory and the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, an international bestseller translated into over forty languages, and the forthcoming The Order of Time. Rovelli lives in Marseille, France.
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