From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. Fom 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.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Allen Lane
Release
November 15, 2016
ISBN
0241257964
ISBN 13
9780241257968
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. Fom 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.