Reality is Not What it Seems - The Journey to Quantum Gravity

'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' ( Financial Times ) 'An utter joy' (Adam Rutherford) 'A hugely engaging book... Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide' (Manjit Kumar Prospect ) 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. Translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre

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Carlo Rovelli

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Product details

• Authors: Carlo Rovelli, Rovelli Carlo
• Assisted by: Simon Carnell (Translation), Carnell Simon (Translation), Erica Segre (Translation), Segre Erica (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2017
• EAN: 9780141983219
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198321-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, Gravity, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, History of Science, Physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Theoretical & mathematical astronomy, Relativity physics, Theoretical and mathematical astronomy