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Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
by Carlo Rovelli
How can you be a reader and not be dazzled by the concept of time? I certainly am, and mesmerized by the mysteries it holds. Time is what piqued my interest in reading this, though my interest in time comes from literature rather than physics. Fortunately, Carlo Rovelli is first a poet, only second a physicist. I'd be surely hopeless to grasp any of these concepts were the order reversed.
This is not "A Brief History of Time," and Rovelli is not Stephen Hawking. Anyone who struggled through that book knows what I mean when I say that that is a good thing.
Layman that I am, the theory of quantum mechanics is a bit like diving into the North Atlantic. The lack of emotion leaves me a bit cold, the sharks circling my body in the array of scientific terms and detail sends me into a panic. Thankfully, Rovelli has plenty of emotion to offer, which comes out in his writing.
Like his later book, the Benedict Cumberbatch-narrated "The Order of Time" (I listened to this one as well, which may have made grasping some of the concepts a bit more difficult than it otherwise would have been), Rovelli waxes poetically about time here, about the discoveries of men like Issac Newton and Albert Einstein. You know, gravity and the atom and all that. It's readable, or, rather, listenable, and that's no small feat.
So props to Carlo Rovelli. He takes the subject of quantum gravity and makes it understandable to a mass audience. Worth a read if you've got the time.
This is not "A Brief History of Time," and Rovelli is not Stephen Hawking. Anyone who struggled through that book knows what I mean when I say that that is a good thing.
Layman that I am, the theory of quantum mechanics is a bit like diving into the North Atlantic. The lack of emotion leaves me a bit cold, the sharks circling my body in the array of scientific terms and detail sends me into a panic. Thankfully, Rovelli has plenty of emotion to offer, which comes out in his writing.
Like his later book, the Benedict Cumberbatch-narrated "The Order of Time" (I listened to this one as well, which may have made grasping some of the concepts a bit more difficult than it otherwise would have been), Rovelli waxes poetically about time here, about the discoveries of men like Issac Newton and Albert Einstein. You know, gravity and the atom and all that. It's readable, or, rather, listenable, and that's no small feat.
So props to Carlo Rovelli. He takes the subject of quantum gravity and makes it understandable to a mass audience. Worth a read if you've got the time.