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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
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This book was a pleasant surprise. Given the title - The Journey to Quantum Gravity, I was kind of skeptical and thought it would either be a superficial bag of crazy theories or a very dense and difficult read. On the contrary, this book is much more than the topic of quantum gravity theories.
The author builds up to the main topic of the book by giving clear and concise context about the current state of physics, beginning with classical physics, relativity and quantum physics. Despite the smallish size of the book, the author was able to give a very comprehensive explanation of quantum physics and much of its crazy and unintuitive concepts.
The topic of quantum gravity is the hardest to grasp, as expected, but a clear picture of the problem and the current loop theory that attempts to explain it is presented in a surprisingly attainable manner.
Finally, the author also introduces information theory in order to attempt to better explain our concept of time in the context of quantum physics, which was very interesting.
In the end, I found this book very complete and packed with fascinating topics, all very well explained. I wouldn’t say it is the first physics book a person should read, though. I guess you have to be a bit into the topic to be able to fully enjoy this. I had to go back a few times and listen again to some parts (I listened to the audiobook).
A fascinating praise to the awareness of our knowledge limitations. Reality is really not what it seems.
- “The only true infinite thing is our ignorance”
The author builds up to the main topic of the book by giving clear and concise context about the current state of physics, beginning with classical physics, relativity and quantum physics. Despite the smallish size of the book, the author was able to give a very comprehensive explanation of quantum physics and much of its crazy and unintuitive concepts.
The topic of quantum gravity is the hardest to grasp, as expected, but a clear picture of the problem and the current loop theory that attempts to explain it is presented in a surprisingly attainable manner.
Finally, the author also introduces information theory in order to attempt to better explain our concept of time in the context of quantum physics, which was very interesting.
In the end, I found this book very complete and packed with fascinating topics, all very well explained. I wouldn’t say it is the first physics book a person should read, though. I guess you have to be a bit into the topic to be able to fully enjoy this. I had to go back a few times and listen again to some parts (I listened to the audiobook).
A fascinating praise to the awareness of our knowledge limitations. Reality is really not what it seems.
- “The only true infinite thing is our ignorance”
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Oh gee whiz. Goodreads lost my review. Maybe I'll type it in again another time.
For now just believe me that Dr. Rovelli is a phenomenal science writer. I've read two of his books on physics and I feel I now have a deeper understanding of just how weird reality is than I've ever had before from any other writer. Read his stuff.
For now just believe me that Dr. Rovelli is a phenomenal science writer. I've read two of his books on physics and I feel I now have a deeper understanding of just how weird reality is than I've ever had before from any other writer. Read his stuff.
challenging
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Good intro and primer to explain previous theories, why they are not meshing, and a proposed theory to bring them together.
The beginning is part history of thought, and by the end it is more forward looking and introduces some revolutionary ideas around information
The beginning is part history of thought, and by the end it is more forward looking and introduces some revolutionary ideas around information
challenging
medium-paced
Not an indication of how great this book is, or how much I enjoyed it, but it felt like I took forever to finish this. Fresh off completing this book I reckon it had to do with a combination of the density of ideas, but also the steady repetition of keystone theories, the latter of which I suspect was done deliberately to help extremely helpless readers like myself keep up, so to speak. But all in all, extremely enlightening, which unfortunately was not a sentiment I could share with an elective module on beginner quantum physics I had to take back in uni.