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4.22 AVERAGE
I am in absolute awe. Best read of the year for me. More detailed review to follow.
This book is incredible!
This book is incredible!
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Humble yet mind-blowing. The chapter on information is astonishing.
This is a hard one. There are entire sections of the book where I couldn’t put it down, and I just wanted to learn more. Then there entire chapters that I would have ripped out of the book.
Where the author speaks physics - you’re in love. Not just with his vision of physics but the entire history of the actors involved and how they helped get us where we are today.
He just spends too much of the book trashing other systems (both scientific and philosophical) to the point where I got bored, and just moved on.
If you pick up this book, then you should feel comfortable skipping stretches (if not entire chapters) trusting that where he speaks Newton, Planck, Heisenberg, and Einstein, you’ll fall in love with physics and how it contributes to the vastness (however finite) of the universe through which we vibrate.
Where the author speaks physics - you’re in love. Not just with his vision of physics but the entire history of the actors involved and how they helped get us where we are today.
He just spends too much of the book trashing other systems (both scientific and philosophical) to the point where I got bored, and just moved on.
If you pick up this book, then you should feel comfortable skipping stretches (if not entire chapters) trusting that where he speaks Newton, Planck, Heisenberg, and Einstein, you’ll fall in love with physics and how it contributes to the vastness (however finite) of the universe through which we vibrate.
This book came out January 2017. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. It is written elegantly but simply for the non-scientist to understand. The book includes a plausible description of what everything and I mean everything is made of. Rovelli's writing converted me from a String Theory fan to a Loop Quantum Field fan!
I will now embarrass myself with meagerly trying to explain some of what I took away from the book. We know that our perception of the reality around us is limited, but Rovelli clearly explains how our five senses only see a small part of what is surrounding us. He moves away from the idea of an infinite universe to a finite one in which our reality is pocketed in a specific place inside what is actually there. Think of everything being a giant web with thicker and thinner spots of mass. We can't see the web connecting everything but it is there. Spooky but exciting.
One of my favorite excerpts:
"The quanta of gravity, that is, are not in space; they are *themselves* space (emphasis mine)."
I will now embarrass myself with meagerly trying to explain some of what I took away from the book. We know that our perception of the reality around us is limited, but Rovelli clearly explains how our five senses only see a small part of what is surrounding us. He moves away from the idea of an infinite universe to a finite one in which our reality is pocketed in a specific place inside what is actually there. Think of everything being a giant web with thicker and thinner spots of mass. We can't see the web connecting everything but it is there. Spooky but exciting.
One of my favorite excerpts:
"The quanta of gravity, that is, are not in space; they are *themselves* space (emphasis mine)."
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced