Carlo Rovelli
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a book about the joy of discovery. Carlo Rovelli brings a playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, offering surprising{u2014}and surprisingly easy to grasp{u2014}explanations of Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Time tends to be considered uniform and universal, but it may be much more complicated than that. In fact, the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it becomes. In lyric, accessible prose, Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle the best minds.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time One of the world's most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers to the wonders of modern physics and his singular perspective on the cosmos. This new collection of essays reveals a curious intellect always on the move. Rovelli...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, Rovelli examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the 21-year-old Werner Heisenberg first developed quantum theory, setting off a century of scientific revolution....
5) White holes
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole's core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the perplexing uncertainties of quantum mechanics....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
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«Hay fronteras, donde estamos aprendiendo y donde arde nuestro deseo de saber. Están en las profundidades más diminutas del tejido del espacio, en los orígenes del cosmos, en la naturaleza del tiempo, en el sino de los agujeros negros, y en el funcionamiento de nuestro propio pensamiento», dice el autor de este libro que se ha convertido en un inesperado best seller en Italia y está siendo traducido a más de veinte idiomas. Lo que explica
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