From Aristotle to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, he takes us on a wondrous journey to show us that beyond our ever-changing idea of reality is a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. He has worked in Italy and the US, and is currently directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de physique theorique in Marseille, France. His Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is an international bestseller translated into forty-one languages.
A global superstar... Professor Rovelli is making the grammar of
the universe accessible to a new generation
*Channel 4 News*
The most fun physicist to be with -- as well as the greatest
explainer of physics
*Sunday Times*
Surely Rovelli deserves the title 'world's most inspiring physics
teacher'
*Daily Telegraph*
The physicist transforming how we see the universe
*Financial Times*
The new Hawking... His writing is luminous. By the time I had
finished reading I was in serious awe of the author
*The Times*
This is a really, really good book about science. It's like a tonic
for the mind. Carlo Rovelli is a physicist so of course this book
is about physics. But it's much more than that. It's about thinking
clearly... He gives beautifully clear explanations of the ideas of
the cleverest people in history, from Democritus, via Newton, to
Einstein and beyond.
*Evening Standard*
Rather brilliant... for fans of cutting-edge physics made
accessible
*Mark Haddon*
The latest thinking in physics is distilled in this primer... Why
do you need yet another popularisation of theoretical physics?
Because Rovelli writes with crystalline simplicity. And because he
turns quantum physics into a coherent story, shaping it as a quest
for a single, underlying "substratum" of reality - from
Democritus's finite, indivisible atoms to Einstein
*Sunday Times*
A comprehensive guide to the bewitching adventure of physics
*Daily Telegraph*
Rovelli writes with elegance, clarity and charm... A joy to read,
as well as being an intellectual feast
*New Statesman*
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