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Reality is not what it seems the journey to quantum gravity
"A closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells us how our understanding of reality has c...
| Main Author: | Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Carnell, Simon, 1962- (Translator), Segre, Erica (Translator) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Grains ; Is there a limit to divisibility? ; The nature of things
- The classics ; Isaac and the little moon ; Michael: fields and light
- Albert ; The extended present ; The most beautiful of theories ; Mathematics or physics? ; The cosmos
- Quanta ; Albert again ; Niels, Werner, and Paul ; Fields and particles are the same thing ; Quanta 1: Information is finite ; Quanta 2: Indeterminacy ; Quanta 3: Reality is relation ; But do we really understand?
- Spacetime is quantum ; Matvei ; John ; The loop's first steps
- Quanta of space ; Spectra of volume and area ; Atoms of space ; Spin networks
- Time does not exist ; Time is not what we think it is ; The candle chandelier and the pulse ; Spacetime sushi spinfoam ; What is the world made of?
- Beyond the big bang ; The master ; Quantum cosmology
- Empirical confirmations? ; Signals from nature ; A window onto quantum gravity
- Quantum black holes
- The end of infinity
- Information ; Thermal time ; Reality and information
- Mystery.